A media company tracking against a $3M MACC found their consumption pace was 18% behind plan. They corrected the ramp before renewal — no awkward conversation with Microsoft required.
Saltcliff had a 3-year MACC and no monthly view of consumption pace. The first time they checked closely was nine months before term end. They were 18% behind plan — staring at a $620K shortfall.
Saltcliff connected their Azure billing to moneta and turned on MACC tracking. The platform produced a burn-down chart, a forecast at term end, and a list of workloads that could be brought forward on the Azure commit pricing tier. Their FinOps lead met with engineering monthly to action the list.
"We could see the under-burn coming. That's the whole job — see it early, do something about it."
Saltcliff now reviews MACC pace as a standing agenda item in their monthly cloud financial review. The commitment renewed at the original term on time.
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