Well Architected Review for Applications - 1 day

Black Belts's well architected review is guided by the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework and its five foundational pillars:

• Reliability: Focuses on ensuring your application is available and can recover from failures to meet user demands.
• Security: Focuses on protecting your application and its data from threats across all layers.
• Cost Optimisation: Focuses on managing and reducing the ongoing running costs of your application.
• Operational Excellence: Focuses on the processes for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining your application in production.
• Performance Efficiency: Focuses on how your application scales to deliver a responsive experience under varying loads.

Deliverables:-

• Comprehensive Application Review: An in-depth evaluation of your specific workload across all five Well Architected pillars using Microsoft's official assessment tools.
• Risk Identification & Prioritisation: We highlight high risk issues impacting your application and categorise opportunities for improvement.
• Clear, Actionable Report: Delivered within one week, our report provides a prioritised roadmap with concrete steps to build a faster, more secure and cost efficient application.
• Optional Deep Dive Modules: Pillar specific assessments (e.g: a deep dive on Application Security or Performance Efficiency) available upon request.

Customer Benefits:-

• Leverage Unparalleled Expertise: Benefit from insights gained from architects with 10+ years of experience, learnings from dozens of implementations across a wide range of industries and access to the knowledge of Microsoft MVPs.
• Mitigate Risks Proactively: Identify and address foundational risks before they can impact your business operations, drawing on our deep experience to spot potential issues that others might miss.
• Optimise Performance & Cost: Receive a strategic, data-informed plan to enhance performance and reduce costs, incorporating best practices proven in numerous real world scenarios.
• Accelerate Your Cloud Journey: Get a clear, actionable roadmap aligned with your business goals to enhance your environment's reliability and security posture.
• Get Actionable Insights, Fast: Our efficient process delivers a comprehensive report and prioritised recommendations within one week, enabling you to act on improvements without delay.
• Benefit from a Flexible, Focused Review: The engagement can be tailored with optional deep dives into specific areas, such as security or cost, ensuring you get the most value where you need it most.

Practicalities for Optimising Your Workload:-

• Primary Scope: A single, specific workload. This includes the code, infrastructure, data stores and CI/CD pipeline used to deliver a business function.
• Core focus: Business logic, user experience, performance and cost effectiveness for a specific use case.
• Stakeholders: Product Owners, Development Team, DevOps Engineers, Solution Architects.
• Typical Outcome: Recommendations to rightsize Azure virtual machines, optimize database query, implement a caching layer, fix security vulnerability, or improve a CI/CD pipeline.

What makes Black Belts unique?

Black Belts cloud architects bring an average of 10+ years of hands-on experience in delivering successful cloud transformations. This depth of expertise allows us to combine proven technical excellence with business insight, ensuring your architecture improvements translate into lasting business value.