Azure Architecture & Modernization Service

If you are planning new workloads on Microsoft Azure or modernizing existing on-premises / IaaS systems, this service helps you design, validate, and implement a secure, performant, and cost‑efficient architecture.

Scope Highlights

  • Landing zone review (subscription, resource groups, network segmentation, governance).

  • Identity & access alignment (Entra ID role design, managed identities, least privilege review).

  • Compute platform decisions (App Service, Container Apps, AKS, Functions, Batch) with trade‑off analysis.

  • Data layer architecture (Azure SQL / PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Storage, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Cache for Redis).

  • Networking & connectivity (Private Endpoints, Application Gateway/WAF, Front Door, VPN/ExpressRoute considerations).

  • Observability foundation (Monitor, Log Analytics, Distributed Tracing, Alerts, dashboards, cost anomaly detection).

  • Deployment automation (Bicep/Terraform design review, GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps pipelines hardening, environment promotion strategy).

  • Resilience & performance (availability targets, autoscale, regional failover patterns, chaos testing recommendations).

  • Cost optimization (reserved capacity, savings plans, rightsizing, lifecycle / data tiering strategies, FinOps practices).

Engagement Model

  1. Discovery workshop to capture current state, constraints, compliance drivers, and success criteria.

  2. Architecture working sessions with iterative diagrams (logical, deployment, data flow, security trust boundaries).

  3. Written recommendations & prioritized remediation or implementation backlog.

  4. Optional pairing on implementation (infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring dashboards, performance tuning).

  5. Final review, knowledge transfer, and follow‑up checkpoint.

Deliverables

  • Baseline & target architecture diagrams (PNG + source where applicable).

  • Security & governance gap assessment with actionable items.

  • Cost risk & optimization report (estimated impact ranges where measurable).

  • Deployment pipeline & infrastructure as code review notes.

  • Optional: reference Bicep/Terraform module patterns, sample GitHub Actions workflows, policy starter pack.