Well-Architected Remediation: Migrate and Modernize Your Estate to Pillar Conformance

Built for the head of cloud platform or lead architect who completed the free Azure Well-Architected Review, received a list of recommendations nobody has time to action, and has to answer for the workload the next time it fails. This engagement will reduce unplanned downtime on a business-critical Azure workload and lower its run cost by fixing the design findings rather than filing them.

Who this is for

Platform and architecture leads who have already run one of Microsoft's free Azure reviews, usually because a workload failed, an audit asked, or a cost review escalated. The review hands back a ranked recommendation list, and then the familiar problem starts: the list is long, the recommendations are generic because the tool cannot see the workload, and the platform team is already fully committed. This engagement is for the organization that wants the list closed rather than filed.

What we deliver

• A triage of your existing Well-Architected Review or Landing Zone Review output against the actual workload, separating findings that are material here from generic advice, with the reasoning recorded so skipping one is defensible later.
• Remediation across the five pillars: zone redundancy, health modeling and tested failover for reliability, private networking, managed identity and secret removal for security, right-sizing and commitment coverage for cost, alerting and infrastructure as code for operations, and tier and scaling correction for performance.
• Landing zone conformance where the workload sits outside a compliant subscription topology: network placement, policy assignment, and identity boundaries, so the design holds after we leave.
• A re-run of the same Microsoft review at the end with before and after scores side by side, plus an evidence pack per closed finding.

Outcomes our customers see

One workload closed 41 of 53 Well-Architected findings in 60 days, with the remaining 12 formally accepted as risks with named owners rather than left silently open. Reliability remediation on a customer-facing workload cut unplanned downtime by 74 percent across the following 180 days, measured against the prior 180. Right-sizing and commitment coverage identified during cost pillar remediation reduced that workload's monthly Azure run cost by 29 percent with no reduction in capacity.

How this compares

Microsoft's review is free, thorough, and the correct place to start, so this engagement begins from your result rather than selling you another assessment. An assessment cannot see your workload, so it recommends broadly and many findings will not apply; deciding which, with the reasoning written down, is most of the skill. Re-running the same review at the end means the outcome is scored by Microsoft's instrument rather than by us marking our own work.

Architecture and Microsoft alignment

The engagement starts from your completed Well-Architected, Landing Zone, or workload-specific review. Current state is measured through Azure Resource Graph for configuration, Azure Advisor for the standing recommendations, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics for reliability and performance evidence, Microsoft Defender for Cloud for security, and Microsoft Cost Management for cost. Remediation is delivered as Bicep against the existing landing zone through your change process, and the health model is implemented in Azure Monitor so the reliability claims stay measurable after handover. Aligned to the Microsoft solution plays Migrate and Modernize Your Estate and Protect Cloud AI Platform and Apps.

Plans

Plans, prices, and full scope per plan are on the Plans tab of this listing.

Prerequisites

A completed Microsoft Azure review result, which is free on Microsoft Learn and takes 30 to 60 minutes. A named workload with an owner who can authorize change, Contributor rights at the workload's resource group or subscription scope, Reader at the management group scope for the landing zone check, and a change window where remediation needs one. Where no review has been run, running it is included in the first phase.

Limitations

The pillars are Microsoft's, so where Microsoft revises the review this engagement follows it. Application code changes are out of scope; findings that can only be closed in code are documented and quoted separately. Findings the customer declines are recorded as accepted risks with an owner. Azure consumption is billed by Microsoft directly. Estate-wide governance remediation is a separate engagement.

How to buy

Buy through the Azure portal, using Get it in Azure portal on this listing, so the purchase is billed through your existing Microsoft agreement. Private offers on request.

Next step

Get it now in the Azure portal, or request a private offer if the scope or the price needs adjusting first.