Case Study · Healthcare SaaS
Clinic to Cloud reduced Azure spend by 46%.
A two-week audit identified unused resources and oversized DEV/UAT environments, without compromising system performance.
About the customer
Clinic to Cloud
Healthcare SaaS provider offering a cloud-based clinical practice management platform used by specialists across Australia and South-East Asia.
Results at a glance
The audit produced a measurable cost result.
46%
Azure cloud spend reduction
2 weeks
Audit to measured saving
$1000s
Saved each month
The cost decision
Growth pushed Azure spend up faster than the team could control it.
Growth and additional customers increased Azure spend as more developers worked on the system.
The monthly bill continued to rise while the DevOps solution also needed to catch up with platform changes.
Before CloudMonitor
Cost control needed clearer operating habits.
Spend, engineering processes, and resource ownership needed attention together.
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High monthly Azure subscription costs.
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Developer growth had outpaced the supporting processes.
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Immature DevOps and FinOps processes.
The FinOps response
Remove unused capacity, then right-size the environments that remain.
CloudMonitor identified underutilized resources and guided actions to remove or scale down services according to their benefit and risk. The audit found zombie resources, orphaned services, and scaled-up DEV/UAT environments.
Over two weeks, the team implemented and measured the changes while protecting system performance. The result was a 46% reduction in Azure spend and a clearer understanding of cost across the development team.
The result
A 46% reduction in Azure cloud spend.
For Clinic to Cloud, the audit, resource removal, and right-sizing work resulted in a 46% reduction in Azure cloud spend over a two-week implementation window.
Key results
Lower operating costs
The measured Azure spend reduction was 46%.
Right-sized resources
The team removed zombie resources and right-sized DEV/UAT.
Cost governance
Engineering gained clearer cost awareness from the audit.
Related FinOps Domains
The audit-first approach is grounded in Understand Cloud Usage and Cost.
Removing zombie resources and right-sizing DEV/UAT is the Cloud Usage Optimization capability in practice.
The new cost-awareness ritual inside engineering is what the FinOps Foundation calls FinOps Practice Operations.
Data-Driven did a comprehensive audit of our Azure infrastructure and DevOps processes with CloudMonitor. They identified and improved several areas, saving our company thousands of dollars each month in subscription costs.
Rafic Habib
CEO, Clinic to Cloud
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