Our New Pricing Tool Shows How Much You’ll Save by Hosting in Enterprise Cloud

Why Public Cloud Is Not Right for Every Workload

Public cloud remains a powerful platform for innovation. It offers elasticity, rapid provisioning, and access to advanced services that can deliver significant value to businesses with the right use cases. However, many businesses are now discovering that not all workloads benefit equally from public cloud hosting.

In many cases, workloads that require stable, predictable levels of compute and storage are proving difficult to cost optimise in hyperscaler environments. What initially appeared to be a flexible operating model can quickly become expensive when businesses encounter fluctuating consumption costs, additional licencing requirements, data egress charges, or persistent overprovisioning.

This is particularly common in ‘lift and shift’ migrations, where workloads are moved into public cloud environments without being redesigned or right-sized. Rather than reducing costs, businesses can end up transforming predictable infrastructure spend into a significantly larger operational expense.

At the same time, the broader cloud landscape is evolving rapidly. Licencing changes, growing AI-driven demand for hyperscaler capacity, and increasing scrutiny around data sovereignty are leading businesses to reconsider whether public cloud should continue to host every application and workload. The result should be to consider public cloud’s role in a more mature cloud strategy – one that focuses on placing workloads in the right environment for the business outcome they need to achieve.

The Business Case for Enterprise Cloud

Enterprise Cloud is designed for businesses that need the flexibility of cloud while retaining optimal control, predictability, and resilience. Fully UK hosted and managed, Enterprise Cloud provides a secure, high-performance environment that is particularly well suited to workloads requiring stable performance, predictable consumption, and stronger governance around data residency.

But for many businesses, the biggest advantage is financial clarity. Unlike hyperscaler models where costs can fluctuate depending on consumption patterns, Enterprise Cloud delivers far greater predictability. Businesses can avoid many of the unexpected charges that often emerge in public cloud environments while benefiting from infrastructure tailored specifically to their operational requirements.

Enterprise Cloud also supports a more balanced hybrid strategy. Businesses can continue to leverage hyperscaler services where they make sense – particularly for burst workloads, innovation projects, or specialist services – while placing more stable, cost-sensitive workloads into an environment optimised for efficiency and resilience.

This approach enables businesses to achieve better alignment between technology and commercial outcomes, ensuring workloads are hosted where they deliver the greatest value.

Introducing the Virtual Machine Pricing Tool

Understanding whether Enterprise Cloud could deliver savings for your business shouldn’t require a lengthy assessment process, and that’s why we’ve launched the Virtual Machine Pricing Tool.

The tool allows businesses to compare the cost of hosting workloads in Enterprise Cloud against the equivalent Microsoft Azure SKU, providing a fast and simple way to evaluate potential savings.

By answering eight short questions, you can receive:

• A monthly workload cost for Enterprise Cloud
• The comparative cost for an equivalent Azure environment
• A clear view of potential savings when moving workloads from Azure to Enterprise Cloud

The tool has been designed to help businesses start the conversation around workload placement and cloud optimisation with real commercial context.

Importantly, this isn’t about replacing public cloud entirely. It’s about understanding whether some workloads could be hosted more efficiently, predictably, and cost-effectively elsewhere as part of a broader hybrid strategy.

In a market where businesses are increasingly under pressure to optimise costs without compromising resilience or performance, having visibility into those options has never been more important.

Save Money by Hosting in Enterprise Cloud

Cloud strategy is no longer about choosing a single destination for every workload. Today, businesses need to balance flexibility, resilience, cost efficiency, and control – placing workloads in the environments best suited to their operational and commercial needs. For many businesses, Enterprise Cloud is a highly compelling option for stable, predictable workloads that do not require the full elasticity or consumption model of public cloud.

Our new Virtual Machine Pricing Tool is designed to help you understand what that could mean financially for your business. Use the Virtual Machine Pricing Tool today and discover how much you could save by hosting workloads in Enterprise Cloud.