Case Study · MSP partner
Arraya Solutions cut its Azure spend by 50%.
The MSP then used the same cost-management methodology to deliver average 15–20% savings for managed customers.
About the customer
Arraya Solutions
US-based Microsoft Solutions Partner and managed services provider delivering cloud, infrastructure, and managed Azure services to enterprises across North America.
Results at a glance
The method delivered an internal result before client rollout.
50%
Azure spend reduction (Arraya)
15–20%
Average customer saving
~10 yrs
On Azure as a partner
The cost decision
Arraya needed better cost evidence for itself and its customers.
Arraya needed to give Microsoft customers the evidence to understand and manage their cloud environments.
The MSP also needed a repeatable way to review security, compliance, and cost decisions across its own Azure estate and its managed customers.
Before CloudMonitor
Client advice needed a repeatable operating model.
Business value, operational insight, and risk context needed to be visible together.
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Optimize customer cloud estates for increased business value.
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Provide customers with essential operational insights in the cloud.
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Help customers understand their cloud costs, compliance and security posture.
The FinOps response
Test the methodology internally, then take it to clients.
Arraya first used CloudMonitor reporting to understand and optimize its own Azure estate. The work revealed obsolete or unused resources, costly deployment trends, and inconsistencies across resource types.
The team then incorporated those lessons into customer sessions, using charts, trends, recommendations, and resource details to structure the discussion.
The result
A 50% internal reduction, then average 15–20% customer savings.
Arraya Solutions reduced its own Azure spend by 50% after changing its cost-management practices alongside CloudMonitor.
The MSP then extended the strategy to clients, achieving average customer cost reductions of 15–20%.
Key results
Internal Azure savings
Arraya reduced its own Azure spend by 50%.
Customer savings replicated
Managed customers achieved average cost reductions of 15–20%.
Azure cost evidence
Reporting gave the MSP resource, trend, and recommendation data for client sessions.
Related FinOps Domains
Arraya found that customers first and foremost wanted to Understand Cloud Usage and Cost.
The audit work, finding obsolete resources and matching workloads to right-sized services, sits inside Cloud Usage Optimization.
As a growing service provider, we need the flexibility that comes with Microsoft Azure along with the visibility and insights of tools like CloudMonitor. Using CloudMonitor gives us actionable data that translates to better organization of cloud resources along with incremental cost savings. Those cost savings support further cloud investment and reduce time to market for adding new and innovative service products into our platform.
Chief Operations Officer
Arraya Solutions
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