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Independent advisory for Azure, AWS & Microsoft 365

Know what your cloud is costing you, and what it's exposing.

One fixed-fee engagement. Read-only access. One week. A findings report your leadership can act on immediately, with dollar figures on every cost finding and severity ratings on every security finding.

Discuss your environment See what's covered

Starts with a 20-minute introductory call

Fixed feeRead-only accessOne-week turnaroundNo ongoing commitment
The numbers

If your cloud has grown faster than its oversight, you're in the majority.

85%

of organizations call managing cloud spend their top challenge.

Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud

99.9%

of compromised accounts did not have multifactor authentication.

Microsoft identity security data

What gets reviewed

One review across your Azure or AWS environment and your Microsoft 365 tenant.

Most environments that have grown without a dedicated owner carry both: spend that serves nothing, and gaps that would surface at the worst time. The engagement prices the first in dollars and rates the second by severity, so you can act on both in order.

Cloud spend & wasteOversized resources, orphaned storage, unused reservations, and idle capacity, each priced in dollars per month.
LicensingFeatures you pay for but never enabled, and seats you no longer need.
Identity & accessMFA coverage, admin account hygiene, and conditional access, rated by severity.
End-of-life exposureServers and services approaching unsupported status, with dates.
Insurance readinessThe gaps cyber insurance questionnaires ask about, answered before your renewal does.
How it works

Three steps. Nothing installed, nothing changed, nothing to buy afterward.

Grant read-only access

Reader role on Azure or view-only on AWS, plus reporting access to Microsoft 365. Nothing can be changed by us, ever. No agents installed.

We review

Costs, identity, licensing, and lifecycle across your environment, using the same methods applied to enterprise infrastructure every day.

You get the findings

A written report with dollar amounts and severity ratings, then a 30-minute walkthrough call. What to fix, what it's worth, in what order.

What we requestReader role on Azure or ViewOnlyAccess on AWS, and reporting-level access to Microsoft 365. You grant it, you can see it, you revoke it when we're done.
What we inspectConfiguration, utilization, licensing, and identity posture. No file contents, no mailboxes, no customer data.
What we never doChange any setting, install any agent, retain access after delivery, or pitch managed services.
How findings are handledYour report and working notes are stored encrypted, shared only with you, and destroyed on request.
The deliverable

See exactly what you'll receive.

The engagement produces a findings report built for decisions: an executive summary, cost findings priced monthly with evidence, a security risk matrix, and a prioritized 30-day action plan. A four-page sample is open for inspection, no form required.

View the sample report (PDF)
Engagement tiers

One flat fee, known before we start.

Standard
$1,500

Cloud spend under $10k per month, single Microsoft 365 tenant.

  • Full scope, both cloud and tenant
  • Written findings report
  • 30-minute walkthrough call
  • One-week turnaround
Extended
$2,500

Larger spend, multiple subscriptions, or multi-tenant environments.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Deeper cost workup across subscriptions
  • Per-workload breakdown
  • Two-week turnaround
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Who's behind this

Wingate Technology Advisors is a New Hampshire advisory practice led by John Wingate, who has spent more than twelve years running cloud infrastructure, Microsoft 365, and security for a New England digital agency and managed hosting provider.

The environments this engagement reviews, and the waste and exposure it finds, are the ones the practice manages every day. Every engagement is performed by the principal: senior work, fixed fees, and findings you can act on without buying anything else.

Read-only accessNo upsellNo managed services agenda

Find out what a week of looking closely is worth.

Tell us roughly what you run and your monthly cloud spend. You'll get a straight answer on fit, either way, usually within one business day.

Prefer email? john@wingatetechadvisors.com