Azure Design Service

Our Azure Design Service is a high-level architectural review of your client's infrastructure through the lens of the five pillars of a well architected Azure Framework – reliability, security, cost-optimisation, operational excellence, and performance efficiency.

We also factor in their longer-term commercial objectives so our Azure-certified Solutions Architects can provide a bespoke Azure architecture high-level design giving them a stable and scalable base for growth. They will also receive a detailed cost estimate and all the associated technical documentation.​​​​​​​

There are two levels of service - Business and Enterprise.

  • Business is intended for smaller organisations and/or simpler requirements. It is a fixed cost for a fixed specifications.
  • Enterprise is intended for larger organisations and/or complex requirements. The cost is variable and based on their requirements.

Sales Tips & Conversations

Before you start: 

  1. Knowing your client’s business, commercial and technical objectives, plus their current situation, is key. If you know your client you can position the service effectively
  2. Taking a benefit-led approach is more effective than starting with features or jumping straight into the technically specifications.

Things you should know about your client: 

  1. What does the business do.
  2. Who are their customers - business names are great but industry will do.
  3. Do those customers have specific expectations - e.g. if their customers are in a regulated market such as finance or healthcare, compliance is critical. If your client (or their customers) is a well-known brand their reputation and therefore security is vital. The service helps both and will help to pick out any flaws or issues in existing infrastructure.
  4. Do they make any claims about uptime, security or resilience? If so, an ADS will ensure they can deliver on their promises.
  5. What growth stage is the business at? If they're growing, they may want their dev team focused on their product not designing their infrastructure. If it's a mature business, they may have customer SLAs or additional compliance requirements. An ADS helps in both cases. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Service Levels & Pricing

Business

Suitable for:

  • The hosting of a simple single application / service.
  • ‘Lift and shift’ migration from other cloud / on-prem, for a small organisation.
  • Modernising an existing simple application already hosted in Azure.
  • Hybrid network from a single site outside of Azure.

Includes:

  • Single Azure topology, plus optional DR in secondary region (active/passive) where applicable.
  • Technical Discovery Workshop.
  • Azure architecture high level design and specification.
  • Report delivery and handover session.
  • Minor updates (e.g. a single recalculation of cost estimate such as adjusting SKUs used in cost estimate) is included.
  • Estimated deployment costs to a single region.

Investment:

  • £3,950 (ex. VAT)

To enable us to provide a fixed cost, we have fixed the specification. Should you require a bespoke delivery or significant changes to the specification, we can discuss the best way of meeting your needs either within the allotted time or through further investment.

 

Enterprise

Suitable for:

  • More complex applications (e.g. a large number of micro-services).
  • Hosting multiple applications in Azure.
  • Multiple region active/active deployments.
  • Hybrid network involving multiple sites outside of Azure, and/or anything requiring HSCN / SWAN / PSN / other public sector connectivity.
  • Re-architecting an existing Azure environment that has grown organically.

Includes:

  • Technical Discovery Workshop.
  • Azure architecture high level design and specification.
  • Report delivery and handover session.
  • Up to three Azure topologies, plus optional DR in secondary region where applicable e.g.
    • Hosting a new application, showing options for both IaaS and PaaS.
    • ‘Lift and shift’ migration from other cloud / on-prem.
    • High level modernisation of the above.
  • Discussion and review of draft topologies and estimated costs part way through the design process engagement to ensure requirements are met.
  • High level modernisation and migration roadmaps, if applicable.
  • One set of major revisions after the final handover and feedback session.

Investment:

  • From £9,950 (ex. VAT)

Should you require costs for Cloud Know How to deploy the please tell us as early in the process as possible. Larger, more complex design typically require additional scoping time so being of your requirements at the beginning allows us to meet your needs faster.

What are the Five Pillars of a Well-Architected Framework?

The five pillars of a well-architected Azure Framework are:

  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Cost-Optimisation
  • Operational Excellence
  • Performance Efficiency.

The Azure Design Service will ensure your client's existing infrastructure leverages these five pillars.

The benefits: If a client fully leverages these five pillars, they will...

  • Reduce potential downtime and issues
  • Verify scalability and reliability, including failover and/or disaster recovery settings
  • Verify the infrastructure security configurations against regulatory compliance recommendations
  • Optimise their Azure consumption costs and overall performance

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