In our previous Azure Architecture blog post, we discussed how the Azure Expert Assessment offering can help organizations identify the best cloud solutions for their business goals by offering no-cost, expert-led assessments and solutions for SQL Server Migration, Windows Server Migration, and Optimization best practices. In this blog, we will explore how the Azure Expert Assessment offering can quickly assess and jump start remediations for customers to optimize costs, enhance security, and improve reliability based on insights from Well-Architected Framework Assessments.
Azure Expert Assessment is a cost-free service offering that provides customers with a comprehensive review of their Azure environment by a Azure Certified Expert. It is designed with automation in every step of the engagement and is open to any Azure customers worldwide, who can self-nominate. Azure Expert Assessment can expedite a customer’s unique assessment needs for optimizing their workloads for Security, Reliability, Cost Management and Fin-Ops. This assessment is conducted by a team of Azure Certified Experts who walk through the assessment with the customer, analyze their environment and provide recommendations on how to improve it.
Benefits:
One of the key benefits of Azure Expert Assessment is that it helps customers identify issues in their workloads that are not aligned with the best practices outlined in the Azure Well-Architected Framework. The assessment team provides customers with a detailed report that includes recommendations on how to remediate these issues related to the WAF pillars of Cost Management, Security, and Reliability. The report also includes a prioritized list of specific recommendations, so customers can focus on the most critical issues first.
The topics of remediations are:
Examples of Well-Architected Remediations:
Below are some examples of common issues that can be resolved using Well-Architected Framework Assessment based remediations, and how to configure them. These remediations showcase how Azure Certified Experts can provide actionable recommendations to optimize cost management, enhance their security posture, and improve reliability based on insights from WAF Assessments.
Cost Management Remediations:
Security Remediations:
Reliability Remediations:
Conclusion:
By using Azure Expert Assessment, customers can ensure that their workloads are aligned with the best practices outlined in the Azure Well-Architected Framework. This can help customers avoid potential issues and ensure that their workloads are running efficiently, resiliently and securely, which in turn, can help customers increase their Azure Advisor Score which helps to improve the posture of their workloads and further optimize their Azure deployments. Start the journey today!
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