Azure Advisory Services

Azure Advisory Service Full

Azure Advisory Service Full is an annual, recurring advisory program and advisory managed service that helps organizations use Microsoft Azure efficiently and in a controlled manner. It combines cost control and optimization, proactive notification of retired services or major version updates, governance and identity management aligned to Microsoft best practices, recommendations to improve reliability and operational excellence, a yearly architectural assessment based on Well‑Architected principles, and training to strengthen internal skills. The service is advisory by design (guidance, reviews, roadmap, enablement); operational needs can be addressed with dedicated managed services when required.

Scope & cadence

Within this advisory managed service, the standard cadence includes:

• Semiannual Azure consumption analysis with report and actionable cost‑optimization recommendations.
• Semiannual analysis of retired services/major updates with impacted items and required customer actions.
• Annual Reliability report and Annual Operational Excellence report with improvement guidance.
• Annual architectural assessment focused on a selected theme, with a documented report.
• Enablement & knowledge sharing: at least one webinar and one personalized interactive training session (minimum 4 hours).
• All activities are documented and shared through structured reports; responsibilities follow a RACI model (provider R/A on reports and assessment; customer I).

Type of user that benefits

This advisory managed service benefits the following roles:

• CFO / Finance / Cost management teams: predictable spend, concrete savings actions, better allocation and forecasting.
• Cloud Center of Excellence / Infrastructure & Operations: prescriptive remediation backlog from the assessment and higher day‑to‑day efficiency from proactive reports.
• Security / Compliance leaders: stronger governance guardrails and policy‑by‑design practices that improve audit readiness.
• Application owners / platform teams: guided adoption of Azure capabilities with practical enablement.
• Executives / Business stakeholders: visibility on ROI, prioritized roadmaps, and clear accountability for improvements.

Customer need or pain addressed

As a recurring managed service, it addresses the following needs:

• Rising cloud spend and waste: recurring reviews and recommendations help reduce costs and keep usage under control.
• Limited visibility and allocation: structured reporting supports transparency and more accurate showback/chargeback and forecasting.
• Governance drift and resilience gaps: assessment and proactive reports tighten controls and harden critical workloads.
• Skills and adoption challenges: personalized training and webinars accelerate safe, compliant use of Azure.
• Platform changes (retirements/major updates): proactive analysis reduces risk and unplanned effort.

Key deliverables

Key deliverables of the managed service:

• Consumption report with optimization actions and owners.
• Retired services/major updates report with impacts and required actions.
• Reliability and Operational Excellence reports.
• Architectural assessment and a prioritized remediation plan.
• Training: webinar and personalized interactive session (minimum 4 hours).

Out of scope

Excluded from this advisory managed service: continuous operational management (for example, 24/7 monitoring, patching, backup operations, real‑time incident handling), system/application support inside VMs, software development or complex automation unrelated to advisory, migration/implementation or delivery projects, licenses/subscription costs, specialized security suites or services. Remediation and change are not included; reactive activities are quoted separately as needed, and operational managed services are available via dedicated offerings.