Azure Consulting Services
Azure consulting services that accelerate outcomes, not implementation timelines.
Most organizations move workloads to Azure but see none of the expected gains. Costs climb unexpectedly. Security gaps appear after migration. Governance collapses without a plan. Redefine's Azure consulting services combine strategic architecture with execution, so your environment runs right from day one.
99.9%
uptime sustained post-migration
across regulated client environments
across regulated client environments
3x
faster cloud architecture
versus typical implementation vendors
versus typical implementation vendors
Common Azure Challenges
What your team is living through right now.
Azure implementations often stall after go-live. Costs exceed projections. Security posture degrades without active governance. Your team deserves a partner who architects for outcomes, not milestones.
The old way
Vendor treats your migration as a ticket, not a strategy. They lift and shift without architecture review.
Azure costs spike three months in. No financial operations governance framework was built into the design.
Security gaps surface during audit. Identity and access management roles and network policies were never hardened.
Your team inherits documentation-free environments they have to reverse-engineer for months.
With Redefine Azure consulting
Every engagement starts with an architecture review. We design the environment before we move a single workload.
Financial operations governance built into the landing zone from day one. Your Azure bill is predictable, not a surprise.
Security posture hardened at every layer: identity, network, data, and compliance policy built in, not bolted on.
You receive full documentation, runbooks, and a trained internal team. No dependency lock-in.
Platform Architecture
How Redefine structures your Azure environment.
Click any service layer to see how Redefine approaches it, from initial design to ongoing governance.
Azure Landing Zone
Identity and Access Management
Compute and Scale
Network and Virtual Network
Data and Storage
DevOps and Continuous Integration and Deployment
Security and Policy
Select a node
Click any layer in the architecture diagram to see how Redefine approaches that service area, from design decisions to governance outputs.
Every Redefine Azure engagement includes architecture documentation, runbooks, and internal team enablement before close.
Azure Landing Zone
Your cloud foundation, designed before the first workload moves.
Redefine builds your Azure landing zone to enterprise standards: management groups, subscription hierarchy, policy baselines, and hub-spoke networking defined before migration starts.
Delivery time
5 to 10 days
Includes
Policy as code
Identity and Access Management
Least-privilege access, enforced from day one.
Azure Active Directory design, conditional access policies, Privileged Identity Management, and role-based access control scoping, implemented so your team never has more access than needed.
Frameworks
NIST, ISO 27001
Audit ready
From week one
Compute and Scale
Right-sized from the start. Scalable when you need it.
Virtual machines, Azure Kubernetes Service clusters, App Service plans, and Azure Functions designed to your actual workload profile, not oversized to cover for poor architecture choices.
Financial operations built in
Cost alerts and budgets
Autoscale
Pre-configured
Network and Virtual Network
Hub-spoke topology with zero implicit trust.
Virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, Azure Firewall, Private Endpoints, and ExpressRoute or VPN Gateway, your network perimeter designed for enterprise traffic patterns.
Architecture
Hub-spoke
Zero trust
Enforced
Data and Storage
Storage architecture that matches your data lifecycle.
Azure Blob, Data Lake, SQL, Cosmos DB, and Azure Synapse positioned for your analytical and operational workloads, with tiering, lifecycle policies, and geo-redundancy configured.
Encryption
At rest and in transit
Backup recovery point objective
Defined
DevOps and Continuous Integration and Deployment
Ship faster with pipelines your team actually trusts.
Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines with approvals, rollback, environment gates, and infrastructure as code via Bicep or Terraform, ready to hand to your engineering team.
Infrastructure as code
Bicep and Terraform
Deployment
Zero downtime
Security and Policy
Compliance posture that holds up under audit.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Blueprints, and Security Center configured to your compliance framework: SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, or GDPR. Posture scoring tracked continuously.
Defender
All workloads
Posture score
Tracked weekly
Platform Integrations
Every service layer connected and governed.
Redefine integrates your Azure environment with your existing enterprise stack: Dynamics 365, SAP, on-premises directories, or third-party software as a service. Nothing lives in isolation.
Resource healthAll systems operational
Central processing unit utilization
42%
Memory
61%
Network egress
28%
Secure score87/100
Network controlsSecured
Identity protectionSecured
Data encryptionIn progress
Month-to-date spend versus budgetUnder budget
Budget$24,000 per month
Actual (month-to-date)$17,240
$6,760 under budget this month
Connects with
Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Azure Active Directory for unified identity and enterprise resource planning data flows.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 consultingMulti-cloud
Architecture guidance for organizations running Azure alongside AWS or on-premises workloads in hybrid setups.
AWS consulting servicesCompliance
SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR posture built into your Azure Policy baseline from day one.
Cloud strategy
Redefine's cloud consulting services cover strategy, platform selection, and roadmap before you commit to Azure workloads.
Azure Consulting Solutions
What you get when you work with Redefine.
Migration and Optimization Paths
Cloud migration that delivers on its business case.
Redefine maps your existing workload inventory, defines migration waves, and builds a target-state architecture before a single virtual machine moves. Your migration delivers the cost and performance gains promised in your business case.
- Lift-and-shift, replatform, or refactor: matched to your workload requirements
- Azure Migrate assessments with dependency mapping completed before cutover
- Financial operations tagging strategy and Reserved Instance analysis delivered on day one
Wave
1: Identity and Directories
Wave
2: Core Applications (14 virtual machines)
Wave
3: Analytics and Data Tier
Wave
4: Legacy Decommission
Estimated savings versus on-premises
$182k per year
98%
Policy compliance
142
Resources governed
3
Needs review
Encryption at restEnforced: all resources
Tag compliance100% tagged
Multi-factor authentication requiredAll admin accounts
Platform Capabilities
Governance that your auditors can verify in minutes.
Azure Policy, Management Groups, and Blueprints give your security leader a real-time compliance posture, not a point-in-time spreadsheet. Redefine designs your governance framework so your team can enforce it without manual toil.
- SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR baseline policies pre-built and deployable
- Policy as code via Bicep: version controlled, auditable, reproducible
- Financial operations governance reporting with cost allocation by team, project, and environment
Client Proof
Results from a regulated cloud migration.
Explore more in our client cloud case studies library.
Financial Technology / Regulated Services
What they do
A regulated financial services platform operating on-premises infrastructure with strict compliance requirements and growing scalability demands.
The challenge
Legacy on-premises workloads limited scalability and made it difficult to meet evolving compliance expectations. Regulatory requirements demanded strong access controls, network isolation, encryption, and full audit traceability throughout any migration.
The result
99.9%
Uptime sustained after migration to cloud-native infrastructure
100%
Compliance posture maintained throughout migration: zero audit findings
4x
Scalability improvement with cloud-native workload distribution
A secure cloud landing zone was built on enterprise identity and access management, virtual private cloud-based network isolation, and key management service encryption. Compliance controls satisfied regulatory requirements and positioned the platform for continued growth without architectural rework.
Why Redefine
Advisory depth your typical implementation vendor cannot offer.
Other implementation partners treat the platform page as a sales pitch. Redefine treats it as a design contract. Here is where the difference shows.
Claim 01
Strategy before execution. Always.
Most partners begin with tooling decisions. Redefine begins with your business outcomes: cost reduction, compliance posture, engineering velocity, and designs the environment to deliver those outcomes. You get an architecture your team can defend to the board, not just a list of provisioned resources.
Architecture review includedBusiness case validationNo scope creep billing
Claim 02
Your team leaves the engagement stronger.
Redefine does not build environments your team cannot maintain. Every engagement includes documented runbooks, infrastructure-as-code templates your engineers can extend, and knowledge transfer sessions before close. You are not trading one dependency for another.
Full documentationInfrastructure-as-code templates deliveredInternal team enablement
Claim 03
Financial operations governance from the first commit.
Cost overruns happen when governance is retrofitted after migration. Redefine builds tagging strategy, budget alerts, Reserved Instance analysis, and Savings Plan modeling into the landing zone before any workload moves. Your finance leader sees predictable Azure billing from month one.
Financial operations governance in landing zoneBudget alerts configuredReserved Instance analysis included
FAQ
Common questions about Azure consulting.
Cannot find what you need? Ask an Azure architect directly.
Free assessment
Get a structured review of your Azure environment: costs, gaps, and architecture path forward.
- Platform and workload inventory review
- Cost and compliance gap analysis
- Target-state architecture recommendation
Every engagement starts with a platform assessment: a structured review of your current environment, workload inventory, and business objectives. From there, Redefine designs your Azure landing zone, defines migration waves or optimization targets, and delivers an architecture your team can govern and extend.
Both. Many Redefine clients already have Azure environments that were implemented without governance or financial operations governance planning. Redefine's optimization path covers cost reduction, security posture improvement, governance uplift, and DevOps pipeline modernization, without requiring a full re-migration.
Compliance requirements are mapped before the first workload moves. Redefine builds Azure Policy baselines aligned to your regulatory framework: SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or GDPR, into the landing zone design. Your audit posture is verified continuously through Defender for Cloud, not retrospectively.
Yes. Redefine's Azure consulting services include hybrid architecture design: Azure Arc, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, and Active Directory synchronization. Your on-premises workloads get a governed path to cloud without requiring a disruptive full-cutover strategy.
Traditional systems integrators focus on implementation milestones and billable hours. Redefine is structured around advisory depth: architecture reviews, financial operations governance design, and governance frameworks delivered before execution starts. Your outcomes, not our hours, define engagement success.
Most clients see budget alignment within the first billing cycle. Redefine configures tagging taxonomy, budget alerts, Reserved Instance analysis, and Savings Plan modeling during the landing zone build, so cost governance is active from day one, not retrofitted after costs have already climbed.
Yes. Post-engagement options include ongoing governance advisory, monthly Defender for Cloud posture reviews, and security baseline drift detection. Redefine also delivers runbooks and infrastructure-as-code templates so your internal team can handle day-to-day operations independently if preferred.
Is This Right for You
Who this engagement is built for
Good Fit When
- You are planning to migrate workloads to Azure or you already have an Azure environment that lacks governance, financial operations governance design, or security hardening.
- You operate in a regulated industry (financial services, healthcare, government) and compliance posture must hold under audit throughout migration.
- Your team can commit 3 to 4 hours per week for sprint reviews and async feedback across a 6 to 16-week engagement.
- You want infrastructure-as-code templates and runbooks your engineering team can own and extend after the engagement closes.
Not A Fit If
- You need someone to provision a small number of Azure resources quickly with no architecture review or governance layer.
- No internal stakeholder has authority to make architecture or configuration decisions during the engagement.
- You need a full enterprise-grade cloud environment designed, migrated, and handed over in under two weeks.
- Your organization wants vendor lock-in with ongoing management dependency rather than an internal team that can own the environment.
Not sure? Tell us your situation and we will be straight with you.
Get Started
Request your Azure platform assessment.
Redefine's Azure consulting assessment gives you a clear view of your current environment: costs, gaps, and the architectural path forward. No commitment. No pitch.
Brief received
We will review your environment and send a scoped proposal within 3 business days.
What are you working on?
Call within 48 hours · proposal in 3 days · Sprint 1 within 1 week of sign-off
Takes 20 minutes to schedule. No commitment. No pitch.
Call within 48 hours of submission
Scoped proposal in 3 business days
99.9% uptime sustained post-migration
Full infrastructure-as-code transferred at handoff
What clients say happens after working with Redefine
Azure costs become predictable
Financial operations governance eliminates surprise billing within the first 30 days
Compliance posture holds under audit
Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud give real-time visibility, not point-in-time reports
Internal teams ship faster
Infrastructure-as-code templates and continuous integration and deployment pipelines reduce deployment cycle time from weeks to hours