Azure Well-Architected Review: 3 Week Assessment

Summary

Often the journey to the cloud can be an ongoing learning process as the landscape is ever evolving. You have invested in the Azure platform but would like to validate that your environment is operating in a governed and secure manner.

The Well-Architected Review initiative is a structured engagement to help review your current Azure architecture to validate against industry best practices leveraging expertise from a trusted Microsoft partner.

Insight’s team of cloud specialists will guide you through the engagement to provide a detailed analysis of your current business risks and vulnerabilities in your Azure environment, aligned to your corporate policy and operational processes. Through a series of workshops and deep dive analysis Insight will assess your environment. The outcome will be a detailed document providing recommendations and next steps for remediation.

Core Areas of Azure

The Well-Architected Review focuses on the following core areas of Azure: • Cost Optimization - Review your monthly spend and help you understand your licensing options, cost visibility and cost reduction. • Security – Review your environment to ensure alignment with your regulatory requirements and identify any outstanding security concerns. • Performance Efficiency – Review your architectural and design processes to ensure performance requirements are being met. • Reliability – Review of the permission and policy structure within Azure to align with your requirements. • Operational Excellence – Review your deployment methodologies around Resource Groups, IaaS and PaaS workloads.