Architecture & Operations
A well-structured Azure environment is easier to secure, operate, and scale. We review your architecture, governance, and operational practices against the standards that make long-term management sustainable.
Architecture Review
We assess your Azure architecture against the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework, covering reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence, and performance efficiency. We identify areas of unnecessary complexity, single points of failure, and opportunities to simplify — giving you a clear picture of how your environment compares to best practice.
Subscription & Management Group Structure
We review your management group hierarchy and subscription layout to assess governance boundaries and blast radius containment. A well-structured hierarchy makes it easier to apply consistent policies, manage access, and isolate workloads. We identify where the current structure creates risk or operational overhead.
Naming Conventions & Standardisation
We assess whether resources follow a consistent, documented naming convention. Inconsistent naming makes it harder to identify resources, automate operations, and maintain the environment over time. We provide a naming standard tailored to your organisation that can be enforced through Azure Policy.
Tagging Strategy
We review your current tagging coverage and consistency. Tags are essential for cost allocation, ownership tracking, environment identification, and operational management. We identify resources with missing or inconsistent tags and recommend a tagging strategy that your team can adopt and enforce.
Resource Lifecycle & Hygiene
We identify orphaned and unused resources — unattached disks, NICs with no VM, deallocated VMs with no plan to restart, empty resource groups, and other artefacts that add cost, clutter, and potential security risk. Cleaning these up reduces your attack surface and your Azure bill.
Storage & Data Security
We review storage account configurations for public access settings, encryption at rest, shared access key usage, and network access rules. We identify storage accounts that are unnecessarily exposed and recommend controls to bring them in line with your security requirements.