Governance · compliance
Azure governance & compliance
North Peak Cloud puts guardrails on your Azure estate as code, so governance and compliance run on autopilot instead of by hope. We implement Azure Policy at scale, baseline against CIS and NCSC guidance, detect drift automatically, and keep audit-ready evidence — so bad configurations are blocked or flagged before they become incidents. With NIS2, the EU AI Act and ISO pressures rising, continuous compliance is no longer optional.
- Azure Policy and initiatives as code
- CIS / NCSC baseline enforcement
- Drift detection and automated remediation
- Cost, tagging and naming governance
- Audit-ready evidence for ISO 27001 / NIS2 / CRA
AI on Azure, done right.
AI-ready foundations
Azure AI Foundry hubs and projects, private networking to your models, identity and policy guardrails — the secure base every AI workload needs before it scales.
Cost control for AI & cloud
FinOps for the AI era: token and PTU strategy, model right-sizing, reservations and anomaly detection. We find the waste your invoice is hiding.
Platform engineering
Landing zones as code in Bicep or Terraform, GitOps, policy-as-code and golden paths. Enterprise-grade Azure delivered in weeks, not quarters.
Security & responsible AI
Content filtering, evaluations, data-residency and audit-ready guardrails aligned to the EU AI Act and ISO 42001 — trustworthy AI you can put in front of customers.
Migration & modernisation
Cloud Adoption Framework migrations and Well-Architected reviews that leave you cheaper, faster and ready for AI — not just lifted-and-shifted.
Senior engineers, direct
You work with the architect who does the build — no account managers, no offshore hand-off, no gatekeeping. Answers in plain English.
Three ways to start.
An AI-ready Azure landing zone, delivered in weeks.
- Azure AI Foundry hub & projects
- Private networking to model endpoints
- Identity, RBAC & Azure Policy guardrails
- Responsible-AI baseline & content filters
- Infrastructure as code you own
- Handover & runbook
One AI use case, production-grade, on AI Foundry.
- RAG, agent or document-intelligence build
- Evaluation & guardrails wired in
- CI/CD and observability
- Cost model before you commit
- Knowledge transfer to your team
- Reusable accelerator IP
Stop AI and cloud bill shock before it starts.
- Token / PTU vs pay-as-you-go strategy
- Model right-sizing & reservations
- Cost anomaly detection
- Classic Azure estate optimisation
- Monthly reporting & reviews
- Gain-share option available
for AI.
Asked and answered.
What is policy as code in Azure?+
Policy as code means defining your Azure governance rules — allowed regions, required tags, security baselines — in version-controlled definitions (Azure Policy, often with tools like conftest/Rego) that are enforced automatically. It makes compliance repeatable, reviewable and continuous.
How do I keep Azure continuously compliant?+
Enforce baselines with Azure Policy as code, detect drift automatically, remediate where safe, and keep evidence continuously rather than at audit time. North Peak Cloud sets this up so compliance is a background guarantee, not a periodic fire drill.