In the battle against cloud spending, many enterprises fail to take advantage of one of the biggest levers possible: Azure Reservations and Savings Plans.
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs), these aren’t just tools for cost reduction they’re opportunities to demonstrate financial stewardship and build long-term trust with customers.
When you can show a customer that you’ve helped them save 25–40% on predictable workloads and can prove it clearly you move from being a technical supplier to being their cloud investment advisor.
That’s the power of FinOps-as-a-Service with Turbo360 Cost Analyzer.
The Opportunity for MSPs
Your customers look to you for cloud expertise not just to keep the lights on, but to make sure every pound, dollar, or euro they spend delivers value.
But most MSPs struggle with:
- Fragmented visibility into reservation usage
- Difficulty forecasting future commitments
- Limited reporting on actual vs. expected savings
- Time-consuming manual analysis every renewal cycle
This complexity leaves savings potential untapped and customers frustrated by unpredictable bills.
Turbo360 gives MSPs the visibility and intelligence needed to manage commitments efficiently across every customer and subscription.
| Model | What It Does | Best For | Commitment Type |
| Reservations | Pre-pay for specific resources (VMs, SQL, etc.) | Steady workloads | Fixed instance size, region, and term (1 or 3 years) |
| Savings Plans | Commit to a consistent spend level instead of specific resources | Dynamic, evolving workloads | Flexible across VM types, sizes, and regions |
Both offer substantial discounts often up to 40% or more but they require insight and discipline to manage effectively.
That’s exactly where Turbo360 steps in.
How Turbo360 Simplifies Reservation and Savings Plan Management for MSPs
Spotting Unused or Soon-to-be-Expired Reservations
Turbo360 continuously analyzes reservation and savings plan usage across all customers, flagging:
- Unused or underutilized reservations
- Spot commitments that will expire soon causing costs to increase
- Resources running on pay-as-you-go rates that could be covered by a plan
This helps your team act fast and protect customers from wasted spend.
Recommend New Commitment Opportunities
Using historical consumption trends, Turbo360 can highlight workloads that are stable enough for a reservation or savings plan e.g.:
- Always-on production VMs
- Core databases
- App Service Plans with steady utilization
This awareness let you approach customers proactively with data-backed savings proposals.
Forecast ROI on Potential Commitments
Turbo360 helps you model the impact of potential purchases before making them. You can compare:
- Pay-as-you-go vs reserved instance spend
- Commitment length (1-year vs 3-year)
- Projected utilization and potential overcommitment risk
This turns FinOps into a forecasting discipline not just a reporting exercise.
Track Actual Savings Over Time
Once a commitment is active, Turbo360 tracks its utilization and realized savings. You can generate monthly reports that show:
- Savings achieved this month vs baseline
- Utilization trends over time
- Expired or expiring commitments needing review
Such visibility builds trust and validates renewal extensions.
Consolidate Insights Across All Customers
For MSPs managing dozens of tenants, Turbo360 acts as a central hub for commitment visibility.
You can filter by:
- Customer or tenant
- Resource group
- Commitment type or term length
That makes quarterly business reviews and FinOps dashboards simple, scalable, and repeatable.
Example: Turning Insights into ROI
Imagine one of your customers runs 40 VMs 24/7 across three regions. Turbo360 flags that 35 of them have had stable utilization for six months perfect for a savings plan.
You model a 3-year commitment and show that it will reduce compute spend by 38%, saving £5,600 per year.
You make the recommendation, implement it, and then track utilization in Turbo360 to prove it’s working.
That one action:
- Saves the customer real money
- Strengthens their trust in your MSP team
- Creates a powerful case study for your FinOps service
Turning Commitments into Conversations
When customers see cost optimization as part of a trusted advisory relationship, they stop asking “Why is my bill high?”
Instead, they start asking “How can we invest more confidently in Azure?”
Here’s how to position it:
“We don’t just manage your infrastructure we manage your investment. With Turbo360, we track every reservation and plan to ensure you’re getting maximum value for every pound of cloud spend.”
That’s a conversation every CIO wants to hear.
Key Takeaways
| Challenge | Turbo360 Advantage |
| Unused or expired commitments | Detect underutilization and expiry early |
| Manual reservation analysis | Automated insight across all customers |
| Hard to find new opportunities | Historical trend analysis for purchase guidance |
| Difficult to prove ROI | Track savings and utilization continuously |
| No single view across tenants | Centralized multi-tenant commitment management |
Turbo360: Turning Commitment Management into a Competitive Advantage
With Turbo360, your MSP gains the visibility, forecasting, and reporting tools to deliver reservation and savings plan management as a service at scale.
- Detect waste and missed savings
- Recommend smart commitments
- Track realized ROI for every customer
- Build confidence through transparency
Coming Next
Next week:How to Make Cloud Cost Management a Problem Your Customers Never Have to Think About
We’ll explore how to communicate value, build trust through transparency, and turn FinOps collaboration into a customer retention powerhouse.
