Case Study · Healthcare SaaS
How Clinic to Cloud reduced Azure spend by 46% with CloudMonitor.
A healthcare SaaS provider audited its Azure infrastructure and DevOps processes with CloudMonitor — saving thousands of dollars each month in subscription costs.
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
Clinic to Cloud · by the numbers.
46%
Azure cloud spend reduction
2 weeks
Audit to measured saving
$1000s
Saved each month
The Problem Statement
Growth pushed Azure spend up faster than the team could control it.
After a period of increased growth and additional customers the costs on the Azure platform increased significantly as more developers worked on the system.
This resulted in a large Azure bill each month which increased over time. In addition to this the DevOps solution needed to be updated to match recent platform enhancements.
Before CloudMonitor
The Key FinOps Challenges
Three blockers were making Azure spend hard to bring back under control.
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High monthly Azure subscription costs.
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Many developers — lack of processes.
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Immature DevOps and FinOps processes.
The FinOps Solution
Audit, remove zombie resources, right-size DEV/UAT — measured over two weeks.
Leveraging CloudMonitor, we identified underutilized resources and recommended a series of actions to remove or scale down services according to their benefit and risk potential. There was a lot of "low-hanging" fruit such as zombie resources, orphaned services and scaled up DEV/UAT environments.
Over a two-week period, we implemented and measured the changes, ensuring the system performance was not compromised. This approach resulted in a significant 46% reduction in Azure spend. Additionally, it cultivated an increased cost-awareness among the development team, underscoring the cost implications of their actions.
The Results in the Business
A 46% reduction in Azure cloud spend.
CloudMonitor optimizes Azure costs by identifying savings opportunities, right-sizing resources, and applying real-time best practices based on utilization patterns using the FinOps lifecycle framework. For Clinic to Cloud the result was a 46% reduction in Azure cloud spend over a two-week implementation window.
Key results
Lower operating costs
Only pay for what you use with elastic scale, transparent pricing and predictable monthly Azure cost.
Right-sized resources
Removed zombie resources and right-sized DEV/UAT so system performance stayed maximized while spend dropped.
Cost governance
Ongoing CloudMonitor reporting keeps Azure spend understood, controlled and reviewed by the engineering team.
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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