Intercept runs an automated scan of your Azure environment against the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) baseline and provides a comprehensive report across Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation, and Operational Excellence. Get a prioritised fix list and practical next steps to maximise value from Azure.
The Azure Well-Architected Framework assessment provides a quick review across the five WAF pillars, with findings prioritised by severity.
Benefits of the assessment:
Security protects data, applications, and infrastructure from unauthorised access, attacks, and breaches. Well-architected workloads follow Zero Trust and a defence-in-depth approach: reduce exposure by default, grant only necessary access, and detect threats early. This strengthens customer trust, ensures regulatory compliance, and lowers the risk of data loss or disruption.
Operational excellence keeps day-to-day operations predictable and reduces firefighting. With standard ways of working, clear monitoring, and sensible automation, incident response improves and changes become safer to ship. That supports faster development and release cycles, with fewer production surprises and less time lost to repeated manual tasks.
Performance efficiency protects the user experience while avoiding waste. Workloads stay responsive under changing demand, scale when needed, and use resources efficiently. That reduces performance-related tickets, avoids costly overprovisioning, and supports growth without constant rework or last-minute scaling fixes.
Reliability reduces the business impact of inevitable failures. Systems are designed to recover gracefully, maintain availability, and handle spikes without breaking. That limits downtime, protects revenue, and reduces disruption for teams and users, while improving confidence in releases and operational changes.
Cost optimisation maximises the return on cloud investment while keeping spend within financial constraints. Without proper cost management, cloud environments can quickly lead to budget overruns, unexpected expenditures, and inefficiencies that are difficult to rectify. By focusing on this pillar, organisations can increase the value of cloud investments over time.
Confirm scope (subscriptions/services) and the access needed to run the Azure Well-Architected Framework Assessment checks.
Run an automated scan using PSRule for Azure against Microsoft best practice rules across Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation, and Operational Excellence.
We translate the results into clear priorities across the most impacted pillars, with business impact summarised to make it clear what to prioritise first.
Receive a detailed compliance report with severity distribution, pillar analysis, business impact, maturity summary, and detailed findings with remediation, impacted resources, and five priority actions.
Once the assessment is complete, Azure Consultants will discuss the results with you in a follow-up meeting. If desired, we can assist with implementing the necessary changes.
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