Case Study: BP achieves 40% cloud cost reduction and stronger cloud governance with Microsoft Corporation Azure

BP implements solid cloud governance and effective cost management with Azure

BP, the global energy company, has moved much of its IT estate to Microsoft Azure as part of a five-year digital transformation. As its cloud footprint grew, BP needed better governance over 250 subscriptions and stronger visibility into cloud spending, while still making Azure services easy for teams to access. Microsoft Corporation provided Azure, Azure Policy, and Azure Cost Management to help BP address these challenges.

Microsoft Corporation implemented Azure Policy to automate governance, enforce guardrails, and support a policy-as-code approach within BP’s CI/CD process, while Azure Cost Management and Azure Advisor gave BP detailed insight into usage and spend. The results were significant: BP cut cloud costs by 40 percent even as usage nearly doubled, and it reduced infrastructure deployment time from six to eight weeks to just 24 hours.

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John Foster

Head of Microsoft Platforms