Blog
Tags:
MSP's: friend to the customer or silent killer of your budget?
You're paying for air – month after month
Every month, you're paying it.
That cloud invoice.
And every month, it gets a little higher.
Not because your company suddenly has three times as many users.
Not because your applications suddenly do a revolutionary amount more.
But because somewhere, invisible to you, the tap is wide open.
And you think: Isn't that what we have an MSP for?
Indeed.
But what if that MSP is the reason you're paying so much too much?
The wolf in MSP skin
Many MSPs stand between you and the cloud provider.
On paper, they are there to represent your interests.
In reality, they are often there to secure their own turnover and margins.
Some earn money from every extra gigabyte you use.
From every server that keeps running.
From every extra bit of cloud capacity that they think is “useful” to activate.
Other MSPs have employees who see the cloud as their personal playground.
They run new resources “for testing” and forget to turn them off.
You foot the bill.
While your hair is starting to turn 50 shades of gray, they are already planning Friday afternoon drinks—successes must be celebrated.
And then there is the group that blindly follows the 'best practices' of Microsoft or other cloud providers.
That sounds reliable, right?
But ask yourself this question:
Who are these best practices actually best for?
For you?
For the cloud invoice?
Or for the cloud provider's revenue?
The ally that's on your side
The IT world is the new Wild West.
Cowboys everywhere. Little control.
And as a customer, you are often the one who pays the price.
What is needed? A new order.
A sheriff who doesn't work for the cloud provider, but for you.
That's exactly what we do.
We are always on the side of the end customer.
No margin on waste.
No profit on your loss.
We don't blindly follow the advice of suppliers.
We look at what is really needed—technically and commercially.
And we don't do it halfheartedly.
We put your entire cloud environment under the microscope.
Every workload. Every server. Every piece of data flying back and forth.
And we eliminate the waste.
Without compromising performance or security.
The silent killer of your cloud budget
It sounds harmless.
An extra server here. A firewall there.
A few extra gigabytes “just in case.”
But add it all up.
Every month.
Every year.
It adds up.
It's like running a store where every day someone puts a box of expensive products at the checkout without asking...
And you pay for them without question.
And your MSP?
They tell you it's “necessary.”
That it's “safe.”
That it's “according to the guidelines.”
But if you ask further questions, you discover the truth:
it's mainly according to their revenue model.
Case Study 1 - 30 servers doing nothing (but in following the guidelines)
A customer had a VM Scale Set running under the control of a Microsoft service.
Each new user was given a completely new server of their own.
Usage of the set? A maximum of 6%.
The MSP had chosen one large server, because imagine if someone ever needed it.
The result: 30+ servers active every day that were hardly used.
But hey, it was “according to Microsoft guidelines.”
When we limited resource usage:
>> €20,000 savings per year
>> Exactly the same performance.
>> A fraction of the cost.
>> One happy but bewildered customer.
Case Study 2 - A $35,000 guard for a door that is open
Another customer had servers in separate landing zones.
This forced all traffic through an Azure firewall.
Cost of the firewall?
>> Firewall itself: €4,000 per year.
>> Cost of firewall traffic: €35,000 per year.
The MSP's argument?
In the event of a hack, another server could not easily be infected.
Sounds good...
but that's like putting an expensive security guard at the door because you don't want to lock the door.
We showed that there is a much smarter, safer, and cheaper way.
With the same protection.
Without the absurd bill.
The numbers don't lie
These are not isolated incidents.
It is a pattern.
Our audits show:
-
20–40% of the cloud budget is pure waste.
-
9 out of 10 companies pay for dead workloads.
-
“Best practices” increase costs by an average of 30% without measurable performance improvement.
We see this in small businesses.
In medium-sized businesses.
In multinationals.
Every dollar you spend unnecessarily on the cloud is one less dollar for innovation. For growth. For the future.
Let us put an end to this waste.
Get a grip on your cloud within 30 days
We turn it around.
Instead of making you pay more, we ensure that you spend less.
Without compromising on performance, security, or scalability.
Within 30 days:
-
Up to 30% lower cloud costs – and a 50% reduction in the long term
-
Faster systems
-
Complete control over every dollar you spend on the cloud
No more playgrounds at your expense.
No more “best practices” that only benefit suppliers.
Only decisions that make your business stronger.
Will you keep paying for air, or will you choose results?
You can continue as you are.
Paying for waste every month.
Watching your cloud budget evaporate every month.
Or you can start optimizing today.
Schedule your Application Health Check or Cloud Cost Audit.
Discover how much of your cloud budget really works for you.
Your choice: keep paying for air... or get a grip on your cloud and save significantly. #promise