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Right-size and govern your Microsoft Azure spend with FinOps® practices. We help identify waste, put controls in place, and give your teams the visibility and accountability to help keep costs under control as you grow.

As an Australian consultancy specialising in security-focused cloud architecture and AI-enabled software on Microsoft Azure, Hexonova helps organisations turn cloud cost management into a repeatable capability that supports delivery goals.

What this service is

Cost optimisation grounded in FinOps practices brings financial accountability to your Microsoft Azure environment. We apply established FinOps practices to help reduce unnecessary spend, align resources to actual usage, and establish governance to help support more predictable costs as usage scales.

• Cost optimisation: Identify and reduce waste and right-size services so spend better aligns to actual usage.
• FinOps practices: Give engineering, product, and finance stakeholders clear visibility and defined ownership of cloud costs to inform better decisions.
• Governance: Implement policies and controls that track, manage, and guide Microsoft Azure consumption.

Who it’s for

Organisations building and running on Microsoft Azure across Australia—particularly in industries where control and transparency matter, including:

• Government
• Healthcare
• Financial services
• Education

Whether you’re modernising existing workloads or scaling new digital services, this service is designed for teams that need reliable visibility, accountability, and guardrails for their Microsoft Azure spend.

Problems we solve

• Over-provisioned resources and idle services driving unnecessary cost
• Unpredictable cloud bills and limited insight into where money is going
• Lack of governance, policies, and controls for Microsoft Azure consumption
• Scaling usage without the accountability mechanisms to manage it
• Difficulty aligning engineering decisions with financial objectives

What’s included

We deliver a practical, end-to-end capability based on FinOps practices tailored to your Microsoft Azure environment. We anchor the work in Azure-native tools and established operating practices:

• Waste identification and right-sizing

  • Analyse consumption with Azure Cost Management and Billing and Azure Advisor to find low-value spend.
  • Right-size compute, storage, and databases; implement autoscale where appropriate so capacity matches demand.
  • Optimise commitment with Azure Reservations and Savings Plans where workloads are steady.

• Cost controls and governance

  • Set up Azure Budgets with alerts to help avoid overruns and enable proactive intervention.
  • Establish tagging standards and enforcement to support attribution (e.g., application, environment, owner, cost centre).
  • Design subscription strategy and management groups aligned to your organisation, with policy guardrails using Azure Policy (policy-as-code) to control provisioning and enforce standards.

• Visibility for stakeholders

  • Build role-appropriate dashboards and reports in Azure Cost Management and Billing to show spend by team, product, or environment.
  • Configure anomaly and budget alerts so finance and engineering see changes early.

• Accountability model

  • Implement showback or chargeback models so costs are transparent to teams.
  • Use tags and subscription boundaries for cost allocation, supported by clear ownership and Azure RBAC.

• Practices that scale

  • Define a landing zone approach with governance baked in, so new workloads inherit budgets, policies, and tagging.
  • Document ways of working and embed routines for ongoing optimisation (e.g., periodic review of Advisor recommendations and commitments).

All outcomes are designed to be maintainable by your teams and aligned to how you operate.

Why Hexonova

• Azure-first expertise: We design cloud architectures with security in mind and build AI-enabled software on Microsoft Azure every day.
• End-to-end capability: From infrastructure design and security accreditation readiness to AI product engineering and around-the-clock cloud security operations (subject to agreed support arrangements and SLAs), we understand how cost, performance, and risk intersect.
• Local by design: We can host solutions in the Microsoft Azure Australia East region to support local requirements; our flagship Hixel platform is hosted in Azure Australia East.
• Cross-industry experience: We serve government, healthcare, financial services, education, and more—bringing patterns that work in regulated environments.

How we work

Our engagement focuses on fast insight and lasting change:

1. Discover: Understand your Microsoft Azure usage, spend patterns, and current controls using Azure Cost Management and Billing data, tagging reviews, and subscription/management group assessments.
2. Optimise: Identify and address waste; right-size resources with Azure Advisor recommendations, apply Reservations/Savings Plans where fit, and enable autoscale for spiky workloads.
3. Govern: Implement budgets and alerts, enforce tagging and policy guardrails with Azure Policy (policy-as-code), and align your subscription and landing zone strategy to organisational structure.
4. Enable: Establish clear reporting and showback/chargeback, allocate costs via tags and boundaries, and define ownership with Azure RBAC so teams can manage their spend.

Our aim is a sustainable capability based on FinOps practices that can support more efficient and predictable Microsoft Azure spend over time. Actual outcomes will vary based on your environment, usage patterns, and the scope of engagement.

Take control of your Microsoft Azure costs

If you’re ready to right-size, govern, and scale your Microsoft Azure environment with confidence, we’re here to help.

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Trademarks and notices

• FinOps® is a registered trademark of The Linux Foundation. Hexonova is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Linux Foundation or the FinOps Foundation.
• Microsoft and Azure are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
• Service availability (including any around-the-clock operations) is subject to engagement scope and agreed SLAs. Benefits described are indicative only and depend on your specific context.