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Azure Well-Architected Review
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Overview
The Espria Azure Well Architected Review (WAR) is a structured, comprehensive assessment of your Microsoft Azure environment, designed to give you clarity, confidence and a clear path to optimisation.
Whether you’re preparing for managed services onboarding or simply want assurance that your cloud platform is healthy, secure and future-ready, the WAR provides actionable insights aligned with Microsoft best practices.
The Benefits
Cloud environments evolve quickly, often shaped by multiple teams, providers or rapid business change. Over time, this can introduce configuration drift, security gaps and unnecessary cost.
The WAR identifies the issues that commonly impact performance, security, cost efficiency and scalability, including:
- Over-permissioned access and weak governance
- Unused or oversized resources driving up costs
- Gaps in monitoring, backups or disaster recovery
- Inconsistent naming and tagging that reduce visibility and supportability.
By investing in a Well Architected Review, you:
- Reduce the risk of outages or security breaches
- Improve cost efficiency through clean-up and rightsizing
- Gain a clear, actionable roadmap to strengthen cloud health
- Enable a smooth transition to managed services and 24/7 support.
What the Review Covers
The assessment is aligned with Microsoft’s Azure Well Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), ensuring your platform is reviewed holistically across governance, landing zone maturity, operations, cost and performance.
Additionally, CAF alignment ensures strong focus on:
- Governance & Compliance
- Landing Zone Readiness for scalable growth
- Operational Excellence for long-term supportability.
What You Receive
Your WAR package is designed to be concise, clear, and actionable with outputs tailored for both technical and business stakeholders:
WAR Report
A colour-coded breakdown of your Azure environment highlighting high-risk areas, misconfigurations and gaps against Microsoft best practices.
Prioritised Remediation Plan
A clear schedule of required and recommended actions:
Mandatory: Required for managed services onboarding.
Recommended: Enhancements for performance, security or cost efficiency.
Executive Summary Slide Deck
Perfect for leadership or board reporting, concise, visual and alignment-focused.
Clear Next Steps & Optional Remediation Quote
Fixed-scope pricing for remediation, ensuring no surprises and clear outcomes.
Assessment Pillars/What We Assess
Reliability
VM uptime SLAs, redundancy, availability zones, auto-recovery, disaster recovery readiness.
Security
IAM, RBAC, NSGs, firewalls, MFA, Azure Secure Score.
Operational Excellence
Monitoring, alerting, automation, backup strategy, patching, change management.
Cost Optimisation
Savings plans, reserved instances, orphaned resources, rightsizing, tagging strategy.
Performance Efficiency
Sizing, PaaS utilisation, storage throughput, auto-scale, IOPS limits.
Delivery Timeline & Engagement Format
- Fast Turnaround: Typically delivered within 7 business days
- Remote Delivery: Conducted via Microsoft Teams
- Secure Access: Requires delegated access via Azure Lighthouse or equivalent contributor role.
Environment Size/Pricing (ex VAT)
Small (up to 50 resources) - £1,250
Medium (51-200 resources) - £2,500
Large/Complex/Regulated - From £3,500 (quoted)
Pricing includes the review, report, presentation and up to 1 hour of Q&A.
Optional Remediation Services
If your WAR highlights mandatory or recommended improvements, Espria can deliver a fixed price remediation engagement that includes:
- Implementation of required remediation tasks
- Optional delivery of recommended enhancements based on priority and budget
- Full documentation, version tracking and rollback points
- A closeout session confirming readiness for managed services onboarding or standalone operation.
Post Review Options
Depending on your goals, you may choose to:
- Transition directly into Espria Azure Managed Services
- Commission fixed price remediation work
- Request a post remediation rereview.
Either way, you gain assurance that your Azure setup is resilient, efficient and built for long term success.
Ready to Optimise Your Azure Environment?
Let Espria help you unlock the full potential of your cloud platform with clarity, structure and confidence.
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