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The public cloud is the most powerful thing in your company. It is also the one no one is piloting.
The public cloud, such as Microsoft Azure, gives your company power no server delivers: it spins up a system in minutes, grows in a spike and shrinks in a lull, and you pay for what you use. The problem is not the power, it is that no one is in command of it. The bill charges by the second and grows quietly; a resource someone turned on for a project stays on months later; and, because Microsoft looks after the building but the security of your data, accounts and configurations is yours, half the doors stay unlocked with no one noticing. Managed Public Cloud puts Zamak at the dashboard: someone governing the cost and the security of your cloud, alongside your team.
In the market, about 27% of what companies spend on public cloud is waste, and budgets overrun the limit by around 17%, because spend grows faster than anyone can keep up with. (Flexera, State of the Cloud 2025)
Microsoft protects the data center and the hardware. But your data, your accounts, your access and your configurations remain your responsibility, in any cloud: it is the shared responsibility model. (Microsoft)
84% of companies say managing cloud spend is the biggest challenge they have today, ahead of security and staffing. Power without control becomes a bill and a risk. (Flexera, State of the Cloud 2025)
If you open your cloud bill right now, could you say why it costs that much, and whether the doors to your data are all locked at this instant?
The real problem
What gives your company power also bills by the second and does not protect itself
Public cloud rarely disappoints for lack of resources. It disappoints when no one is in command: the cost runs away, the configuration is left open and the knowledge lives in one person's head. Here is where the pilotless cloud charges the bill, almost always at the worst moment:
The bill that came double, and no one knows why
At month-end, the cloud bill arrives much higher than the last one. No one changed anything on purpose, but the amount went up, and the invoice is a list of items no one can explain. With no budget alert and no one watching what goes off-pattern, the company only finds the problem once it has already become money spent.
The resource someone turned on and no one turned off
A virtual server was created for a test, a project ended, a migration was left half done. The resource stays on, charging every day, every month, for something no one uses anymore. That is how much of the waste happens: not in a wrong decision, but in things left on that no one has time to review and turn off.
The door Microsoft does not lock for you
The company moves to the cloud thinking Microsoft now handles the security. And it does, of the data center and the hardware. But your data, your access accounts and the configurations remain your responsibility. A database left public, an administrator account with no second factor, a setting left on the default: it is the door no one locked, and it is through it that the incident comes in.
The migration that promised savings and brought a bill
The company migrated to the cloud on the promise of saving money and moving faster. The speed came; the savings did not. The bill ended up bigger than the old server's, and no one can point to where the promise went. Migrating is only half the job: with no one accountable for the outcome after the migration, the cloud delivers the invoice, not the savings.
The person who set it all up, and left with the map
One person set up the company's cloud, and only they knew what was on, why and what was safe to turn off. When they leave, an environment with no map is left behind: no one touches it, afraid of bringing something down, and no one cuts it, afraid of erasing what matters. What should be an asset becomes a black box the company pays for without understanding.
None of this is the cloud's fault, nor of whoever runs IT. It is the lack of a pilot: someone governing the cost, locking the door that is yours and keeping the environment documented. That is exactly what Zamak's Managed Public Cloud puts in command.
What it is
The power of Azure, with Zamak in command of the bill and the security
Managed Public Cloud is the service in which Zamak provisions, governs and operates your company's environment on Microsoft's public cloud, Azure. Public cloud means an infrastructure owned by Microsoft, rented over the internet and billed by what you use, with practically unlimited scale. Zamak stays in command of it for you: it organizes the subscription, sizes the resources, keeps the cost predictable, hardens the security of the part that is yours and monitors everything. You do not lose control of your cloud; you gain someone who pilots it with method, alongside your team. Because Zamak is a Microsoft Solutions Partner, you have a single point of contact for the whole environment.
Someone watching the meter (cost governance)
Zamak treats your cloud as a budget, not an open tap. It sets a budget with alerts, warns when spend goes off-pattern, adjusts resource size to real usage, applies the discount reservations Azure offers and turns off what no one uses. The cost stops being a surprise at month-end and becomes a line you can predict and explain.
Someone locking the door that is yours (security posture)
In the cloud, Microsoft protects the building, but your data, accounts and configurations are yours to protect. Zamak takes on that half: it requires a second factor at access, fixes the settings left open, controls who can do what and tracks a security posture score that rises as the weak points are closed. It is the door no one was locking, now with someone responsible for it.
Someone piloting the environment (provisioning and scale with method)
Zamak provisions the resources with a recognized well-architected method, organizes the subscription so you can see what belongs to whom, spins up new environments in hours and makes the cloud grow in the spike and shrink in the lull without losing control. And it documents everything, so the environment does not depend on a single person. You keep the agility of the cloud, without the mess it becomes when no one organizes it.
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What is included
The Azure environment, well provisioned, and Zamak's operation that keeps it under control
Two deliveries in one service: the public cloud environment, provisioned and organized with method, and Zamak's continuous operation that governs the cost, locks the door that is yours and monitors everything. You use the power; we hold the command.
The Azure environment, provisioned with method
Your public cloud set up and organized the right way, ready to grow without becoming a mess.
- Provisioning and sizing of the Azure resources (machines, services), at the right size for your usage.
- Subscription organization with tagging by area and project, so you can see what belongs to whom.
- Architecture following a recognized cloud best-practice method (reliability, security, cost, operation, performance).
- New environments live in hours, and scale that grows in the spike and shrinks in the lull, without buying hardware.
- Documentation of the environment, so it does not depend on one person's knowledge.
Zamak's continuous operation
Who governs the cost, locks the door that is yours and monitors the environment, alongside your team.
- Cost governance: budget with alerts, off-pattern spend warnings and right-sizing to real usage.
- Application of Azure's discount reservations and cleanup of idle resources, to pay only for what you use.
- Security posture of your part: a second factor at access, configuration fixes and control of who can do what.
- Backup of the data in the cloud and continuity, so a failure or a mistake does not become data loss.
- Continuous monitoring of the environment by Zamak, to act before the problem reaches you.
Tech specs
How Zamak governs your cloud, under the hood
For those who want to look under the hood: the levers Zamak uses to keep the cost predictable, the security of your part locked and the environment well operated on Microsoft Azure. Each one is a market standard, applied with method by a Microsoft Solutions Partner.
Cost governance (FinOps)
Here it helps to see how each lever works, not just name it. Right-sizing compares what was contracted against the real usage of the last few weeks and trims the oversized resource. Reservations swap the by-the-hour price for a usage commitment that Microsoft discounts, and can substantially reduce the cost of resources that run steadily. The budget alert and anomaly detection warn on the day spend goes off-pattern, not in next month's invoice. And the analysis by area and project shows where the cost really comes from. How much is saved varies with each environment; what does not vary is the spend becoming predictable and explainable.
Security posture and shared responsibility
In the cloud the shared responsibility model applies: Microsoft answers for the data center and the hardware; the company always answers for its own data, accounts, access and configurations. Zamak takes on that customer half, supported by Azure's security posture tools: it tracks a score that measures how protected the environment is, fixes the open settings that score points to and closes the weak points one by one, so the environment becomes safer than it came out of the box.
Identity and access (second factor, who can do what)
The door most used by whoever breaks into the cloud is the credential. Zamak requires a second factor at access, defines who can do what by least privilege and applies conditional access rules (for instance, blocking logins from unexpected places). It is the foundation for the administrator account not to become the key that opens the whole company, and it connects directly to identity and password management, when you want the full vault.
Well-architected build (recognized method)
Zamak provisions the environment following Microsoft's well-architected cloud method, which looks at five fronts: reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence and performance. In practice, that means the environment is not built by guesswork: it is built to withstand failure, cost what is fair, be easy to operate and scale as the company grows.
Backup and continuity
Being in the cloud is not the same as having backup: a mistake, a deletion or an attack erases what is there as it would anywhere. Zamak includes backup of the data in the cloud and recovery, and full disaster recovery comes as an additional layer when it makes sense. This way, a failure or a slip does not become data loss or a stopped operation.
Monitoring and continuous operation
Zamak monitors the environment to act before the problem reaches you: it tracks performance, cost alerts and security signals, applies what is needed and keeps a single point of contact for your whole cloud. You do not learn about the problem from the invoice or the client complaining; you learn about it from whoever is already solving it.
Managed Public Cloud is billed per environment, with a predictable value, and not by a surprise at month-end. The infrastructure is Microsoft Azure's; Zamak, as a Microsoft Solutions Partner, provisions, governs and operates the environment alongside your team.
It is the difference between a powerful cloud no one governs and a powerful cloud with someone in command: watching the meter, with the door locked and the environment documented.
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How it compares
Three ways to deal with the public cloud, side by side
A company can have the public cloud managed by someone who understands it, leave it on autopilot (spin up a resource and hope) or stay out of it and stuck with the office server. See what changes, point by point, when someone is truly in command of your cloud.
Cost
Zamak's delivery
Public cloud managed by Zamak
Governed: budget, alerts, right-sizing and discount reservations
Public cloud on autopilot
Grows quietly; the bill changes every month and no one explains it
Your own server in the office
Big purchase now and then, plus maintenance
The security of your part
Zamak's delivery
Public cloud managed by Zamak
Hardened: second factor, fixed configuration, who can do what
Public cloud on autopilot
What Microsoft does not lock stays open, with no one responsible
Your own server in the office
On you, without the cloud's security tools
Scale
Zamak's delivery
Public cloud managed by Zamak
Grows in the spike and shrinks in the lull, with method and under control
Public cloud on autopilot
Scales, but with no cost brake or organization
Your own server in the office
Stuck with the hardware you bought
Who runs the day to day
Zamak's delivery
Public cloud managed by Zamak
Zamak operates alongside your team, with one point of contact
Public cloud on autopilot
Someone internally, in spare time, with no method
Your own server in the office
You yourself, with the time and risk on you
Visibility
Zamak's delivery
Public cloud managed by Zamak
Dashboard, alerts and budget: you see and predict the spend
Public cloud on autopilot
You discover the spend at month-end, from the invoice
Your own server in the office
Predictable, but rigid: it neither grows nor shrinks
Knowledge continuity
Zamak's delivery
Public cloud managed by Zamak
Documented: it does not depend on one person
Public cloud on autopilot
Lives in the head of whoever set it up; if they leave, it becomes a black box
Your own server in the office
Tied to whoever knows that server
Comparison between the common ways of dealing with the public cloud in the market. The Zamak column describes only what we deliver and operate for you; the cloud infrastructure is Microsoft Azure's.
From risk to impact
From the pilotless cloud to business impact
The bill spikes with no warning, and no one can explain why.
The IT budget becomes a gamble and cash flow is surprised at month-end.
How the managed cloud responds
Cost governance: budget with alerts, off-pattern spend warnings and right-sizing.
A resource turned on for a finished project keeps charging every month.
Money burned, month after month, on something no one uses anymore.
How the managed cloud responds
Inventory and cleanup of what is idle, plus discount reservations: you pay only for what you use.
A configuration or an access account is left open, because that part is yours and no one took care of it.
Exposed data, a breached account: the incident the cloud, on its own, does not prevent.
How the managed cloud responds
Hardened security posture: second factor, fixed configuration and access control.
Only one person understands the environment, and one day they leave the company.
No one knows what runs or what is safe to turn off; the cloud becomes a black box paid for in the dark.
How the managed cloud responds
Operation documented by Zamak: the environment does not depend on a single head.
In all these cases, what changes is not luck. It is having someone in command of your cloud: watching the meter, locking the door that is yours and keeping the environment documented, before the problem arrives.
For every role
What changes for each role in your company
The same cloud under command, watching cost and security, read through the eyes of whoever decides, owns the bill and compliance, and runs IT.
Owner and founder
Build it, protect it, grow its value.
The most powerful tool in your company stops being a hidden risk, the bill that surprises and the data that can leak, and becomes a governed asset. You know how much the cloud costs and why, you know the door to your data is locked, and you have the agility to grow without buying hardware. Less risk in cash flow and reputation, more value when auditing, insuring or selling the company.
Manager and director
Cost you can predict. Security you can prove.
You swap the surprising cloud bill for a spend you can budget and explain, with the waste cut and the discount reservations applied. And when the audit, the client or the insurer asks whether access is controlled and the configuration is safe, you answer with proof, not with hope. Less surprise in cash flow, less weak point when closing a contract.
IT lead and team
A secure extension of your team.
You stop being the one chasing the bill at month-end and the open configurations at night. Zamak takes on the tedious, endless part (governing cost, hardening the posture, optimizing, documenting) alongside your team, and you spin up new environments in hours with method behind them. You gain capacity and backing to focus on what creates value, without losing command of the cloud.
IT partner and provider
Offer managed public cloud to your clients.
Bring your clients cost governance and security posture on the public cloud as a recurring service, without building in-house a cloud financial management and security practice that takes years to mature. You enter the conversation with a ready offer on Azure, preserve the client relationship and Zamak runs the backline at your side. Request a proposal and we will design the partnership model with you.
Why Zamak
Why Zamak
Governing a public cloud takes more than knowing how to switch it on: it takes cost and security discipline, every day, alongside whoever runs IT. That is where Zamak comes in. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we provision and operate your environment on Azure, keep the cost under control, harden the security of the part that is yours and monitor everything, with a single point of contact. We operate alongside your team, never in its place, so that command of the cloud stays with the company.
In the end, it is the difference between a cloud no one is piloting, that bills by the second and leaves doors open, and a cloud with someone in command: the cost predictable, the security of your part locked and the environment documented, before any problem arrives.
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Zamak provisions, governs and operates the environment with the same discipline it applies every day, alongside your team; the cloud infrastructure is Microsoft Azure's.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
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