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Azure consultancy and landing zone services
Build an Azure platform that fits your applications, security requirements and delivery teams. Konsolute's Azure consultants design landing zones, connect environments and automate infrastructure, with clear operational ownership from day one.
WHAT THIS HELPS YOU ACHIEVE
A usable Azure foundation, ready for delivery
Give application teams a consistent place to deploy, with networking, access and operational controls designed together.
Faster environment provisioning
Give teams an approved route to new environments, with reusable infrastructure and clear deployment standards.
More predictable connectivity
Resolve routing and name-resolution requirements across Azure, on-premises systems and connected services.
Consistent access and governance
Apply role, identity and policy designs at appropriate scopes instead of configuring each workload independently.
Operational readiness
Make alerts, recovery procedures and platform ownership part of implementation rather than a post-launch task.
OUR AZURE SERVICES
Azure consultancy services
Six areas of Azure engineering, scoped to your estate and delivered as code, with documentation your team can own.
Azure landing zones
Design management groups, subscriptions and policy around environment separation, billing ownership and your workloads, following Microsoft's landing zone guidance.
Hybrid networking
Plan hub-and-spoke or Virtual WAN connectivity, address space, routing and name resolution, and assess VPN, ExpressRoute and private access to Azure services.
Workload platform design
Choose between virtual machines, App Service, Container Apps and AKS based on application dependencies, scaling needs and your team's ability to run them.
Identity and secrets
Configure Entra ID, Azure RBAC and managed identities, with privileged access and Key Vault designed so people and applications get only the access they need.
Infrastructure as code
Build repeatable Azure environments with Bicep or Terraform and pipelines, using modules, parameters and review gates so every change is tested and traced.
Monitoring and recovery
Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and actionable alerts, and agree Azure Backup, Site Recovery, retention and restore procedures for each workload.
CAPABILITIES & DELIVERY SCOPE
What the technical work covers
Workstreams are selected and scoped around your environment. Each combines technical decisions, implementation tasks and evidence for handover.
Azure landing zones
Translate platform requirements into a hierarchy of management groups and subscriptions. Map policy inheritance, separation of production and non-production, and the teams responsible for each boundary.
Environment provisioning
Build a repeatable onboarding route for new workloads. Specify the information a team must provide, approval responsibilities, and the resources and budget controls provisioned at each stage.
Hybrid networking
Trace application traffic through on-premises networks, Azure hubs and service endpoints. Validate routing, firewall dependencies and private name resolution against representative connection scenarios.
Identity and secrets
Map human and workload access separately. Define RBAC scope, managed identity use and secret retrieval, including ownership of privileged changes and identity lifecycle.
Workload platform design
Compare hosting services using application compatibility, operating effort, persistence and scaling requirements. Capture the assumptions that would trigger a different platform decision.
Infrastructure as code
Structure reusable infrastructure modules and environment-specific inputs. Define review, validation and deployment gates so teams can evolve the platform through controlled code changes.
Monitoring and recovery
Map operational signals to service owners and escalation routes. Configure appropriate log collection and alerts, then align backup coverage and recovery patterns with workload criticality.
Operational acceptance
Use agreed acceptance scenarios to test the implemented foundation. Exercise access, connectivity and restoration tasks, record limitations and transfer configuration and runbook ownership.
TECHNICAL DESIGN DECISIONS
Technical decisions that shape delivery
These choices affect implementation, ongoing operation and the evidence needed to accept the work.
Connectivity before deployment
Check address-space overlap, firewall paths and private DNS resolution before choosing a topology. A private endpoint alone does not establish usable end-to-end connectivity.
Platform choice by workload
Compare infrastructure control, application compatibility and support effort. Use managed services where they fit; Kubernetes needs a justified operational case.
Resilience with explicit targets
Agree recovery time and recovery point objectives. Select zone, region and recovery patterns against business impact and cost rather than assume every system needs the same design.
Ownership of the platform
Define who approves infrastructure changes, responds to alerts and maintains modules. A landing zone needs an operating model as well as an initial deployment.
OUR APPROACH
How we deliver Azure consultancy
Six stages take you from workload discovery to a tested Azure foundation, with the code, runbooks and ownership handed to your team.
Discover workloads
Identify applications, data flows, business criticality and existing Azure or on-premises dependencies.
Assess the estate
Review subscriptions, connectivity, access, policy and operational gaps before deciding what to reuse.
Design the platform
Document the resource hierarchy, network topology, identity model and workload hosting decisions.
Deploy with code
Implement the agreed foundation through version-controlled modules and controlled deployment pipelines.
Validate operation
Test routing, name resolution, permissions, alerts and the agreed restoration scenarios.
Transfer ownership
Hand over architecture records, code, runbooks and the platform responsibility matrix.
Design.Build.Operate.
WHERE WE CAN HELP
Where Azure consultancy fits
Start with the requirement that matches your estate. Assessment establishes the technical dependencies and scope.
See it in practice: Konsolute deployed an Azure Landing Zone with secure DevOps for a defence government organisation, and optimised GSK's Azure costs with a Bicep service catalogue.
WHAT WE DELIVER
Azure deliverables your team can use
The proposal identifies which of these outputs are included, their level of detail and the acceptance criteria.
Platform architecture
Resource hierarchy, network diagrams and documented compute, storage and resilience decisions.
Deployable infrastructure
Version-controlled Bicep or Terraform modules, environment parameters and pipeline configuration for the agreed scope.
Control baseline
Documented policy assignments, role mappings, workload identities and naming and tagging conventions.
Operational handover
Monitoring configuration, recovery procedures, validation evidence and responsibilities for ongoing operation.
FAQ
Azure consultancy FAQs
Landing zones, hybrid networking, hosting choices, infrastructure as code, access, recovery and support.
The scope can include management groups, subscriptions, identity, networking, policy, logging and deployment automation. We assess your existing platform first and agree which components need implementation, remediation or integration.
Not necessarily. We assess the existing hierarchy, connectivity and controls, then identify changes needed to reach the target design. Existing workloads and operational dependencies inform the transition plan.
We can design hybrid connectivity, including VPN or ExpressRoute assessment, routing, firewalls and private DNS. The implementation scope identifies carrier, network-team and third-party dependencies.
The choice depends on application requirements, container compatibility, scaling patterns and your ability to operate the platform. We compare these factors and document a recommendation rather than default to Kubernetes.
We can structure the infrastructure-as-code approach around Terraform or Bicep, depending on your estate and team standards. The scope covers module ownership, state or deployment management, access and pipeline controls.
We review Entra ID integration, Azure RBAC, privileged access and workload identities. Role assignments and managed identities are designed around the tasks applications and people actually need to perform.
We can design private endpoints and associated networking and DNS where supported. We also validate how clients resolve names and route traffic, because a private endpoint does not replace an end-to-end connectivity design.
We agree workload recovery objectives, assess appropriate backup and replication options, and define restoration procedures. Recovery testing and operational ownership are included where agreed in the delivery scope.
Agreed deliverables can include architecture diagrams, deployment modules, configuration records, access and policy definitions, test evidence and operational runbooks. We identify the owner of each deliverable at handover.
Consulting can prepare the platform for operational support, but monitoring coverage, incident response and service commitments need an agreed support scope. We document that boundary before handover.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
Plan your next Azure platform change
Tell Konsolute about your current environment and the priorities above. We can define the assessment, engineering work and handover needed for a focused engagement.