Case Study: a UK central government body reduces cloud costs and improves service operations with Version 1

a UK Central Government Body reduces its Azure bill by over 20% with Version 1

The customer, a UK central government body, faced the challenge of migrating its on-premise estate to Azure while needing to reset its Digital Service Operations team. They engaged Version 1 to provide skilled engineers and a delivery manager to up-skill civil servants, reduce costs, and introduce DevOps best practices.

By embedding consultants within the team, Version 1 automated manual tasks and decommissioned redundant resources. This solution reduced the annual Azure bill by over 20% and cut the number of supported VMs from over 800 to under 600. The teams became self-sufficient, requiring half the people to support the workload, while automation greatly reduced P1/P2 incidents and increased time for progressive project work.