Azure architecture and operations review
An Azure environment with a clear structure is easier to secure and to run as it grows. Our Azure architecture review looks at how yours is organised and governed, and at how your team manages it from day to day.
Architecture review
We assess your architecture against all five pillars of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework. Along the way we note single points of failure and any complexity that could be taken out, and the report shows where your environment departs from Microsoft's guidance.
Subscription and management group structure
Your management group hierarchy and subscription layout decide where governance boundaries sit and how far a problem in one workload can spread. A clear hierarchy lets you apply policies and access consistently and keep workloads apart, and we point out where your current structure adds risk or extra admin.
Naming conventions and standardisation
We check whether resources follow a documented naming convention and whether it's applied consistently. When names vary it takes longer to find things and automation becomes fiddly to write. You'll get a naming standard written for your organisation that can be enforced through Azure Policy.
Tagging strategy
We look at how many of your resources are tagged and whether the tags follow a consistent scheme. Tags drive cost allocation and record who owns a resource and which environment it belongs to. We list resources with missing or mismatched tags and recommend a strategy your team can adopt and enforce.
Resource lifecycle and hygiene
We find orphaned and unused resources such as unattached disks, network interfaces with no VM and empty resource groups, along with deallocated VMs that nobody plans to restart. Each one adds cost and clutter and can become a security risk, so clearing them out shrinks your attack surface as well as your Azure bill.
Storage and data security
We review each storage account's public access settings, encryption at rest, network rules and use of shared access keys. Where an account is more exposed than it needs to be, we recommend the controls that would bring it in line with your security requirements.
Other Azure reviews
- Security & compliance
- Identity & access
- Network & infrastructure
- Endpoint & VM security
- Cost optimisation
Also on AWS? See our AWS architecture and operations review.