🛋️ Azure cost therapy
Been using Azure for years? 🕸️
When's the last time you cleaned house?
With 200+ Azure services and years of buildup, I find the waste, fix the aging architecture — and you only pay a one-time % of what I save you. 💸
Intro Call
15 min · 1% down to start · no pitch deck 😏
David Plappert
10+ years on Azure · Azure expert ☕
Typical savings found
$0/yr
on a $25K/mo account 👀
Trusted by teams at
What people say after working with David
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"David is a dev genius."
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"David responds quickly and makes sure to explain things as best as possible."
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"David's a commando. He is fast and efficient at getting results."
Why CutMyAzure? 🤔
Growing Azure spend doesn't mean efficient Azure spend. Your revenue grew 40% — did your Azure bill grow 40% too? Or 80%? 📈
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Keep your tech team building value
Your engineers should be shipping product, not hunting for savings. I dig into your architecture, find the misalignment, and do the one-time cleanup so they don't have to. No recurring retainer. No ongoing distraction. Just results. 🚀
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Not a dashboard. Not an AI. A human.
Dashboards show charts. AI generates summaries. I read your architecture, understand your business, and tell you exactly what to change and why. And I only make money when you do. 🤝
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You don't pay until you see results
This is a one-time commitment, not an ongoing contract. The implementation fee isn't due until you've experienced the savings for 90 days. No savings? No fee. I carry the risk, not you. 🎯
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Growing ≠ efficient
Nobody sets out to waste money on Azure. You launch fast, scale fast, and three years later you're paying for infrastructure you forgot existed. That's not negligence — that's just building a business. Let me clean it up. 🧾
How It Works 🧰
One 45-minute call. One PDF. Zero PowerPoints. You decide how far to go after you see the numbers. 🤝
🗓️ Intro Call
15 min · 1% of Azure annual spend to start ☕
We meet, I ask annoying questions about your business, and you grant read-only Azure access so I can go deep. Then the 1% down payment kicks things off. 🔍
💡 The 1% is a down payment — it gets deducted from The Report fee. Think of it as a deposit, not an extra charge. You're not paying more, you're paying sooner.
📋 The Report
15% of annualized savings found (minus your 1% deposit)
The Report is two things: a 45-minute call where I walk you and your team through every finding, and a full PDF you keep forever. The call is where we dig in together — every waste item, exact dollar amounts, architecture recommendations, and where your tech doesn't match your business. The PDF is so nobody has to remember what I said. 📄
- ✅45-minute live call with you and your team — ask questions, push back, bring your skeptic 🤨
- ✅Full PDF report — line-by-line savings breakdown your CFO will actually understand (and maybe frame)
- ✅Architecture recommendations — "this should be serverless" and "this database is 10x bigger than it needs to be" 🏗️
- ✅Implementation guide for your team if you want to DIY (I don't gatekeep) 🛠️
- ✅You keep the report forever. Even if you ghost me. I'll survive. Probably. 👻
- 🎁BONUS: Free Security Audit (normally 10% of Azure annual spend) — full PDF report covering misconfigs, public Storage accounts, IAM risks, and more (27 days left!)
The remaining 15% fee (minus your 1% deposit) is due at this call. You saw the numbers, you liked them, now we settle up. Math. 🧮
🛡️ Security Audit
10% of Azure annual spend · FREE during promo
Not a dashboard. Not an AI summary. A one-time PDF report written by a senior Azure architect who's actually reading your account. I go through your security posture line by line and tell you exactly what's exposed, what's misconfigured, and what's one bad day away from a breach. 🔍
- ✅Public Storage accounts — the #1 cause of "we made the news and not in the good way" 🪣
- ✅Overprivileged RBAC roles — does your intern's role really need
AdministratorAccess? (It does not.) 🔑 - ✅Security group misconfigs — ports open to the internet that shouldn't be, rules that made sense three years ago 🚪
- ✅Unencrypted resources, missing logging, disabled CloudTrail — the stuff that makes compliance auditors cry 😰
- ✅Delivered as a prioritized PDF: critical → high → medium. Fix the scary stuff first. 📋
🎁 Book before the promo ends and this is included free with The Report. After that, it's 10% of Azure annual spend.
🔧 The Fix — Implementation
Decided at the exploration call · scoped together like adults
We agree on a timeline, deliverables, and scope before I touch anything. Then I get to work making your Azure account match your actual business. Serverless migrations, right-sizing, Reserved Instances — the whole shebang. 💪
- ✅I implement every optimization (you watch, ask questions, or take a nap — dealer's choice 😴)
- ✅Custom timeline and deliverables. No mystery. No "we'll circle back." Actual dates.
- ✅90 days after deliverables, we compare bills. Did the savings actually happen? 📊
- ✅+35% of verified savings due at the 90-day mark. The best part? It's a one-time payment from money you were already giving Microsoft. No new budget. No approvals. Just redirect what you're already spending. If the savings didn't stick? You owe me nothing. I'll go cry into my own Azure bill. 🤷
50% total max (15% report + 35% implementation). That's the ceiling. There is no "and also this other fee." 🚫
📊 The Proof
+35% of verified annual savings · a.k.a. "show me the receipts"
We pull up your Azure bill. Before. After. Side by side. The 35% is based on actual, verified, no-BS savings — not my projections, not a spreadsheet estimate, not vibes. Real numbers on a real bill. If the savings didn't show up, I don't get paid. That's how confident I am. 💰
🧮 Calculate Your Savings
No monthly fees. No recurring charges. You pay once. Keep the savings forever. 💰
Drag the sliders or type your actual Azure spend below.
🔥 You're wasting roughly
$7,500/mo = $90,000/yr
📋 The Report (15%)
🔧 The Fix (50% total)
6 mo
⏱️ Time to break even (The Fix)
$90,000
🚀 You keep every year after year 1
$405,000
💰 5-year net savings (after The Fix fee)
No monthly fees. No subscriptions. No recurring charges. You pay once and keep 100% of the savings every year after. ✂️
🧮 Real Math, Fake Company
A $25,000/mo SaaS company that swore their Azure was "pretty optimized" 👀
One-time fee. Paid from your recurring savings. ~6-month ROI. 🎯
💳 When You Pay (with The Fix)
📊 Return on Investment
6 mo
⏱️ Time to ROI
$54,000
🎉 Year 1 net savings
$270,000
🚀 3-year net savings
One-time fee. Every dollar saved after that is yours. Forever. ✂️
Just want The Report? 15%, a 45-min call, a PDF, and your team handles the rest. You keep $91,800 year one. No hard feelings. 💰
🕵️ The Usual Suspects
Decisions that made sense at the time. That time was 2021. It's not 2021 anymore.
👋 Who's poking around my Azure account?
I'm David Plappert — an actual human being with 10+ years of Azure experience who will personally dig through your account, read your architecture, and understand your business. 🍱 Not an AI-generated summary. Not a dashboard with traffic lights. Not a junior analyst following a checklist. Me. On a call. With opinions. And a mildly aggressive sense of humor.
I build and run production serverless SaaS at Fortune 100 scale — Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SES, the whole buffet. I know where Azure hides the markup because I've been paying it myself for years. Most cost tools tell you what you're spending. I tell you why your tech doesn't match your business — and I make it not just cheaper, but better. 🎯
Should that EC2 fleet be Lambda functions? (Probably.) Does that RDS instance need to be that big? (It does not.) Is your architecture built for a business model that pivoted two years ago? (Almost certainly.) I ask the questions a dashboard can't. 🤔
I only need read-only access for the scan. 🔒 No write permissions. I can look but I can't touch. Think of it as window shopping your infrastructure. Very judgmentally.
When I'm not auditing your infrastructure, I'm in the suburbs of Peoria, IL with my wife and two young kids. 🏡 The honest truth? I started CutMyAzure because I want to pay off our house and get my family completely debt-free. That's it. No VC funding. No exit strategy. Just a dad who's really good at Azure and really motivated to find your savings — because every dollar I earn pays off my house faster. 😅
Yes, "Cut My Azure" is a real business name registered with the state of Florida. No, I will not apologize for it. ✂️
🔒 Your Data. My Paranoia.
I've worked with organizations that handle the most sensitive data in the country. Your Azure account is in good hands. Careful, experienced, slightly paranoid hands. 🫡
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HIPAA
Protected health information? Been there, secured that.
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DC Health Link
Health exchange data for the nation's capital.
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PII & eCommerce
Customer data, payment data, the stuff that keeps you up at night.
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IRS Pub 1075
Federal tax information. The government trusted me. You can too.
🛡️ How access works
- ✅Read-only IAM role — scoped policy, your team provisions it. I can look but I literally cannot touch. 👀
- ✅No data extraction — I audit infrastructure and architecture, not your application data.
- ✅SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP environments — I've worked inside all of them. I know the rules. 🏗️
- ✅Access revoked when we're done — you control it the entire time. Delete the role and I'm gone.
❓ Questions you're definitely asking right now
🤔 What if you don't find any savings?
Then you have the most optimized Azure account I've ever seen, and honestly? I'll be impressed. In my career this has happened exactly zero times, but I hear there's a first time for everything. I'll send you a congratulatory email.
🤨 When do I actually pay?
1% of your Azure annual spend is due at the intro call as a down payment — it gets deducted from The Report fee. 15% of annualized savings (minus the deposit) is due when The Report is delivered — that's a 45-minute call with you and your team plus a full PDF. If you opt for implementation, the extra 35% isn't due until 90 days after deliverables — and only on verified savings. You literally never pay for results that didn't happen. This is the opposite of how consulting usually works, and I'm aware of that. 😅
🎯 Is this just a cost audit or something more?
Way more. Cost tools tell you what you're spending. I tell you why your tech doesn't match your business — and that's where the real savings live. Running servers 24/7 for a workload that spikes twice a day? That's not a billing problem, that's an architecture problem. I'm a serverless architect who happens to also save you money. The savings are a side effect of good architecture. 🏗️
📏 Is $10-150K/mo really the sweet spot?
We work best with Azure accounts spending $5K/mo or more. Below that, there usually isn't enough waste to justify an engagement. Above $150K you probably need a full-time FinOps team (I can help you hire one, actually). But that $5K-150K range? That's where businesses are big enough to have real infrastructure but too busy building product to optimize it. That's my people. 🫡
🧑💻 Can't my team just optimize this ourselves?
They can try! But I'm not scanning dashboards for random cost savings. I'm reading your architecture, understanding your business, and finding the structural mismatches — the kind of waste that no tool surfaces. It's the difference between a thermometer and a doctor. One tells you the temperature. The other tells you why you feel terrible and gives you a prescription. 🌡️
🛠️ What if my team can implement the fixes themselves?
Awesome — that's literally what The Report is for. You pay 15%, get the 45-minute walkthrough call plus the full PDF playbook, and your team runs with it. I'll even answer questions if they get stuck. I don't get offended when people don't need me. I get paid and you get savings. Capitalism at its finest. 🎉
🏢 Do you only work with tech companies?
Nope. I've worked with for-profit companies, non-profits (churches, civic organizations, foundations), and local, state, and federal government agencies. If you're running on Azure and spending $5K+/mo, I don't care if you're selling software, saving souls, or serving citizens — your bill probably has waste and I can find it. 🏛️⛪💼
🤖 How is this different from CloudHealth / ProsperOps / [insert SaaS tool]?
Those are dashboards. They scan your account and show you charts. I'm a person who reads your architecture, understands your business, gets on a call with you, and tells you exactly what to change and why. Dashboards find obvious waste. I find the structural misalignment between your tech and your business that no tool can see. Also, I can explain things using sports metaphors if that helps. Dashboards cannot. 😏
😰 How do I know you won't break something?
The scan uses read-only access. I literally cannot change anything even if I wanted to. For implementation, every change is documented, reviewed with your team, and rolled out carefully. I've been doing this for 10+ years. I break things on my own Azure account, not yours. (My personal bill is a whole separate therapy session.) 😅
Your Azure bill isn't going to cut itself. ✂️
1% down to start. The rest isn't due until you see the report.
Serious about your Azure spend? This is the fastest way to find out what you're wasting — with zero risk. 💰
🗓️ Book Your Free Azure InterventionNo hard sell. No PowerPoints. Just math. 🧮
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Got clients bleeding Azure money? Get paid to tell them.
If you run an IT consulting firm, MSP, or business advisory — and your clients are on Azure — I'll pay you a referral fee for every engagement that closes. You look like a hero. They save money. I do the work. Everybody wins. 🎉
Seriously, you just send an intro email and collect a check. That's the whole program. It's not complicated because I didn't let a marketing team design it. 😅
📧 Email David about referralsdavid@cutmyazure.com — I respond fast ⚡
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Your portfolio companies are overpaying Azure.
You did the due diligence on the team, the TAM, and the cap table — but nobody looked at the Azure bill. Spoiler: it's not great. 😬
I audit your portfolio companies' Azure infrastructure, find the waste, and fix it — without slowing down product development. Your engineering team stays focused on shipping. I handle the infrastructure bloat they've been ignoring since Series A. 🚀
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Pay on results
No retainer. No hourly. You pay a percentage of verified savings — if I don't find waste, you owe nothing. Wild concept for consulting, I know. 🤷
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6-month ROI
Most engagements pay for themselves within 6 months. After that, every dollar saved goes straight to runway. CFOs love this. Investors love it more. 😏
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No recurring fees
I'm not another SaaS on your portfolio's credit card. One engagement, permanent savings. The only thing that recurs is the money your companies keep. Every. Single. Month.
Think of it as an instant operational upgrade across your portfolio — funded entirely by the waste it eliminates. Your board deck just got a new slide. You're welcome. 📊
📧 Email David about your portfolioBulk portfolio pricing available — because math rewards volume 🧮