Case study · Financial services · Azure Well-Architected Review
From an automated Azure assessment to a plan the team can act on
A UK digital investment platform now has 30 verified, prioritised actions for its Azure estate, more than half needing no extra spend.
At a glance
30
verified, prioritised actions
More than half
need no extra spend
1
plan, ranked by value, effort and risk
Financial servicesUKRegulatedMicrosoft AzureWell-Architected Review
01
The challenge
The challenge
Automated Azure assessments are a useful starting point, but they produce long, unranked lists and can misread a live estate. As a regulated firm, the platform chose to verify the results rather than assume them, and wanted to know where to focus first.
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What we did
What we did
- Checked the assessment against the live Azure estate.
- Corrected the assessment's errors.
- Ranked what was left into a single plan by value, effort and risk.
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The outcome
The outcome
- 30 verified, prioritised actions, more than half needing no extra Azure spend.
- No time lost chasing problems that did not exist.
- A clear plan to strengthen security controls.
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