Azure Infrastructure Assessment
Ensure Your Azure Foundation Is Ready for What's Next
Your Azure environment may be running successfully today—but is it ready to support your organization's future ambitions?
As cloud platforms evolve, governance models mature, security standards tighten, and business demands increase. Our Azure Infrastructure Assessment helps organizations evaluate the current state of their Azure platform, identify improvement opportunities, and create a roadmap for future growth. Whether you're looking to modernize your Azure environment, improve operational excellence, or prepare for Managed Services, this assessment provides the clarity and direction needed to move forward with confidence.
Ideal for: organizations already running workloads on Microsoft Azure.
Why Perform an Azure Infrastructure Assessment?
Many organizations have successfully adopted Azure but struggle to answer important questions:
• Does our Azure platform align with current best practices?
• Can we onboard new workloads efficiently and consistently?
• Are our governance and security controls sufficient?
• Are our cloud engineers spending their time on the right activities?
• Is our platform ready for future growth and modernization?
• Are we getting the full value from our Azure investment?
Our assessment provides an independent view of your current Azure foundation and identifies practical opportunities to improve.
What You'll Gain
Platform Maturity Insights
A clear understanding of how your Azure environment compares to industry standards, Microsoft best practices, and modern cloud operating models.
Improvement Roadmap
A prioritized roadmap outlining opportunities to strengthen security, reliability, governance, and operational excellence.
Strategic Recommendations
Guidance on the most effective next steps for your Azure platform, including Landing Zone modernization, platform optimization, or Managed Services adoption.
Risk & Opportunity Assessment
Visibility into critical risks, technical debt, and opportunities to improve scalability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
Common Business Challenges
Rapid Growth
New projects, teams, and workloads are increasing the complexity of the Azure environment.
Governance Challenges
Cloud adoption has accelerated, but governance, security, and operational practices have not kept pace.
Operational Inefficiencies
Engineering teams spend too much time on platform maintenance, manual processes, and recurring operational tasks.
Platform Modernization Needs
Existing Azure environments no longer align with current standards, architectures, or organizational objectives.
Managed Services Readiness
Organizations want an objective assessment before transitioning platform operations to a managed services provider.
What We Assess
Azure Platform & Infrastructure
Using Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework, we evaluate:
• Reliability
• Security
• Operational Excellence
• Cost Optimization
• Performance Efficiency
Governance & Operations
We assess:
• Platform governance
• Security controls
• Identity and access management
• Platform operations
• Automation and standardization
• Workload onboarding processes
Organizational Readiness
Where relevant, we review:
• Cloud operating model
• Roles and responsibilities
• Skills and expertise
• Strategic alignment
• Platform ownership
Organizational Readiness
Where relevant, we review:
• Cloud operating model
• Roles and responsibilities
• Skills and expertise
• Strategic alignment
• Platform ownership
Industry Standards
Our recommendations are based on:
• Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
• Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Zero Trust principles
• Defense-in-Depth security practices
• Xebia cloud platform expertise and delivery experience
Our assessment combines technical analysis with organizational context.
How the Assessment Works
1. Discover
We build a clear picture of your Azure environment, operating model, and business objectives.
Activities include:
• Stakeholder interviews
• Technical discovery sessions
• Documentation review
• Goal and expectation workshops
Deliverables
Current State Overview
A summary of your Azure platform, governance model, operational processes, and cloud operating model.
Platform Maturity Assessment
An evaluation of strengths, risks, improvement opportunities, and critical findings.
Future-State Recommendations
Guidance on how to improve security, governance, operational excellence, and platform scalability.
Improvement Roadmap
A prioritized roadmap containing:
• Recommended improvements
• Urgent mitigations
• Indicative timelines
• Key dependencies and prerequisites
• Strategic next steps
Following the assessment, organizations typically:
Typical Outcomes
Validate that their Azure platform is fit for purpose
Improve governance and security controls
Increase operational efficiency and automation
Modernize their Azure platform architecture
Adopt a Landing Zone architecture
Prepare for Managed Services onboarding
Create a roadmap for future growth and innovation
Your Azure Journey
Why Xebia?
A successful cloud platform requires more than technology. It requires the right balance of governance, security, operations, platform engineering, and organizational alignment.
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, Xebia helps organizations design, modernize, and operate Azure platforms at scale. Our teams combine deep Azure expertise with practical experience in Landing Zones, platform engineering, cloud governance, and managed services.
Whether your next step is platform modernization, Landing Zone adoption, operational improvement, or Managed Services onboarding, we help you make informed decisions and accelerate outcomes with confidence.
Start Optimizing Your Azure Platform
Gain an independent view of your Azure environment, uncover improvement opportunities, and receive a practical roadmap for future growth.
Talk to our Azure experts about an Azure Infrastructure Assessment.
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