Azure Well-Architected Framework Assessment
The Azure Well-Architected Framework assessment provides a comprehensive review across the five WAF pillars, with findings prioritised by severity.
Benefits of the assessment:
- Accelerated remediation
Faster fixes across cost, performance, reliability, operations, and security. - Reduced risk exposure
Spot misconfigurations that can lead to breaches, downtime, or recurring incidents. - Secure, resilient platform
A secure, high-performing, resilient framework to protect data and intellectual property in Azure. - Detailed assessment + impact
See how compliant the environment is and where the biggest business impact sits across the five WAF pillars. - Optimisation recommendations
Actionable next steps, plus five priority actions ranked by severity, effort, and business impact.
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5 pillars of Azure Well-Architected Framework
Security
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
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
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
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
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.
What you'll get
- Detailed assessment report covering failed and passed rules, the severity split, and the most impacted pillars.
- Clear business impact and architectural maturity summary, with practical next steps to improve.
- Remediation guidance, including five priority actions to start fixing.
How the assessment works
1. Scope and access
Confirm scope (subscriptions/services) and the access needed to run the Azure Well-Architected Framework Assessment checks.
2. Scanning the environment
Run an automated scan using PSRule for Azure against Microsoft best practice rules across Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation, and Operational Excellence.
3. Analyse & structure results
We translate the results into clear priorities across the most impacted pillars, with business impact summarised to make it clear what to prioritise first.
4. Detailed assessment report
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.
5. Review results together
Once the assessment is completed, 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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