Fixed-price assessment
Azure Well-Architected Review
An Azure Well-Architected Review is a structured, expert assessment of a workload against Microsoft's five pillars — cost optimisation, security, reliability, performance efficiency and operational excellence — and North Peak Cloud delivers one at a fixed price. You get a clear, prioritised list of risks and improvements with the cost and effort of each, so you know exactly what to fix first. It is the fastest way to find what your Azure estate is getting wrong.
- Assessment across all five Well-Architected pillars
- Prioritised findings with cost and effort
- Quick wins identified for immediate action
- Fixed price and timeline agreed up front
- A clear remediation roadmap you own
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 an Azure Well-Architected Review?+
It is a structured assessment of an Azure workload against Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework — cost, security, reliability, performance and operational excellence — producing a prioritised list of risks and improvements. It is the standard way to health-check an Azure workload.
How long does a Well-Architected Review take?+
A focused review of a single workload typically takes a few days to a couple of weeks depending on complexity. North Peak Cloud scopes and prices it up front so you know exactly what you are getting.