Governance Remediation for Azure

Cloud platform owners: bring an existing Azure estate under an agreed governance baseline. The scoped remediation work addresses policy coverage, access and resource ownership with customer-approved changes and validation evidence.

Who this is for

Platform teams that inherited rather than designed their Azure estate. The symptoms are consistent: subscriptions created by whoever needed one, Owner assigned to individuals, not groups, no tagging so cost cannot be attributed, public IP addresses nobody can explain, and a monthly bill trending upward with no owner. Nothing here is a migration; everything is already in Azure and the problem is that nobody is governing it.

What we deliver

• A posture review across the estate: subscription and management group structure, policy coverage, role assignments including standing Owner access, network exposure, tagging completeness, and cost attribution gaps, each finding ranked by risk and cost.
• A management group hierarchy and subscription restructure aligned to the Cloud Adoption Framework, executed by moving subscriptions, not rebuilding them, with dependency checks and a customer-approved change window.
• An Azure Policy baseline deployed with initiatives for security, tagging, allowed regions and SKUs, and diagnostic settings, applied in audit mode first so the remediation scope is measured before anything is enforced.
• RBAC remediation replacing individual and standing Owner assignments with group-based roles and Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management eligible access, plus orphaned resource cleanup with a business owner sign-off per resource before deletion.

Acceptance evidence

Record the initial policy coverage, access assignments and ownership gaps. Each approved change records its result, exception, owner and recovery path. Savings and compliance outcomes depend on the estate and accepted changes; no customer percentage or guaranteed outcome is claimed.

Delivery boundary

This scope implements an agreed governance backlog in an existing Azure estate. An assessment-only engagement provides findings and a roadmap. Here, customer-approved policy, access and ownership changes follow audit-mode validation and a recovery review. Migration execution and ongoing managed operations require separate scope.

Architecture and Microsoft alignment

The target state follows the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework: a management group hierarchy with platform and landing zone separation, Azure Policy initiatives applied at management group scope, Microsoft Entra ID group-based RBAC with Privileged Identity Management for elevation, Microsoft Defender for Cloud for security posture, Azure Monitor with a centralized Log Analytics workspace for diagnostics, and Microsoft Cost Management with a tagging taxonomy that makes chargeback possible. Policy and role definitions are deployed as Bicep so the baseline is version controlled. 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

Provide named subscription and application owners, supported licenses and approved evidence sources. Agree the least-privilege access needed for each work package. Role changes, policy enforcement, subscription moves and resource deletion require explicit customer approval, validation and recovery planning. Unowned resources remain unresolved until ownership and authority are established.

Limitations

This engagement governs an existing Azure estate; it does not migrate workloads into Azure or refactor applications. Resource deletion only proceeds with written business owner sign-off, so cost recovery depends on your ability to make those decisions. Policy enforcement may block existing deployment pipelines that relied on the previous absence of guardrails, and remediating those pipelines is scoped separately.

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

Contact Simplicity IT before purchase to confirm the supported scope, included capabilities, licensing, quantities and acceptance criteria. Service delivery and any licensed software must be identified separately in the order.