Turn Azure recommendations into savings, security actions & governance decisions.
PowerBoard helps teams identify monthly savings opportunities, security risks, vulnerability findings, operational excellence issues, and governance actions, without stitching together Azure exports manually.
- Monthly savings opportunities
- Security recommendations
- Operational excellence actions
- Downloadable reports
$5,680 monthly savings opportunity identified.
A sample PowerBoard Azure recommendation report identified savings across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, unused resources, unattached disks, and other optimization opportunities.
- 75% of savings from Reserved Instance opportunities
- 21% of savings from Azure Savings Plan opportunity
- Additional savings from unused App Service plans, unattached disks, and failing pipelines
- Estimated savings represented approximately 18% of monthly Azure cost
Potential Monthly Savings
Based on a 1-year Azure Advisor cost recommendation analysis.
≈ 18% of monthly Azure cost
A clear ROI story for finance, cloud, and leadership teams.
Reservation savings
Identified across virtual machines, SQL databases, MySQL, App Service, and related resource types.
Savings Plan opportunity
Potential savings from Azure Savings Plan recommendation for compute services.
Other optimization
Examples include unused resources, unattached disks, failing data pipelines, and cleanup actions.
Recommendations that go beyond cost dashboards.
PowerBoard does not just show Azure spend. It helps teams understand what to optimize, what to secure, and what to improve operationally.
Cost Optimization
Identify concrete savings opportunities across Azure services.
- Reserved Instances
- Savings Plans
- Unused App Service plans
- Unattached disks
- Failing pipelines and waste signals
Security & Vulnerabilities
Surface security risks that need review and remediation.
- Insecure Azure Storage SAS tokens
- Unverified insecure SSH private keys
- Potential unauthorized access risks
- Security remediation guidance
- Audit and rotation actions
Operational Excellence
Highlight outdated services, migration needs, and platform modernization actions.
- Application Gateway v1 retirement
- Azure CDN Classic migration
- Migration to newer Azure services
- Performance and support improvements
- Operational cleanup actions
Executive-ready reports for Azure cost, security, and governance.
PowerBoard helps cloud teams communicate findings in a format finance, engineering, security, and leadership teams can actually use.
- Monthly savings summaries
- Advisor recommendation reports
- Security and vulnerability summaries
- Operational excellence findings
- Downloadable reports and spreadsheet exports
- Data that supports FinOps reviews and executive updates
A clear, business-friendly summary of where Azure money can be saved, where security posture needs attention, and which governance actions should be prioritized.
Specific recommendations with resource context, impact, and action steps they can use for review, cleanup, remediation, and optimization work.
Sample recommendation categories
A practical view of how PowerBoard converts Azure data into action.
| Category | Example finding | Recommended action | Business impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost Optimization | Reserved Instance opportunity for virtual machines and SQL resources | Review usage and purchase suitable 1-year reservations | Lower recurring Azure compute and database cost |
| Cost Optimization | Unused or empty App Service plan | Decommission unused plan | Eliminate avoidable monthly cost |
| Cost Optimization | Unattached disk of 350 GB | Review and remove if no longer required | Reduce storage waste |
| Security | Insecure Azure Storage SAS token | Audit, rotate, scope, and set expiry for tokens | Reduce unauthorized access risk |
| Security | Unverified insecure SSH private key | Review, replace, and enforce stronger SSH key management | Improve access security |
| Operational Excellence | Application Gateway v1 retirement | Migrate to Application Gateway v2 | Improve support, performance, and platform readiness |
| Operational Excellence | Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft Classic | Migrate to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium | Improve performance, security, and scalability |
From recommendation to action.
PowerBoard helps teams build a repeatable review workflow around Azure cost, security, and governance recommendations.
Identify
Surface savings, security, governance, and operational findings from Azure data.
Prioritize
Focus on high-impact recommendations with clear savings, risk, or governance value.
Share
Export and communicate findings with finance, engineering, security, and leadership teams.
Act
Use recommendations to run optimization sprints, cleanup actions, and governance reviews.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about PowerBoard reports and recommendations.
Are reports downloadable?
Yes. PowerBoard supports downloadable reports and spreadsheet exports for internal reviews and stakeholder sharing.
Does PowerBoard only show cost recommendations?
No. PowerBoard covers cost optimization, security recommendations, vulnerabilities, governance insights, and operational excellence issues.
Can executives understand the reports?
Yes. Reports are designed to summarize cost, savings, risks, and actions in business-friendly language.
Can cloud teams act on the findings?
Yes. Recommendations include operational context that helps teams review, remediate, optimize, or clean up resources.
How often is data refreshed?
PowerBoard refreshes data daily, helping teams review updated cost, security, and governance insights.
Does PowerBoard make changes to Azure?
No. PowerBoard works with read-only access and does not make changes to your Azure environment.
Show your Azure recommendations as a business case, not just a backlog.
Use PowerBoard to identify savings, explain risks, prioritize governance actions, and share executive-ready reports with your stakeholders.