Cloud Foundations: Well-Architected Framework Review

🧭 Overview: Drive cloud success with Apex Systems’ Azure Well-Architected Framework Review. Delivered by our senior Cloud SMEs, this engagement empowers your organization to unlock efficiency, resilience, and cost savings while ensuring your workloads are aligned to Microsoft’s best practices. Our experts apply real-world experience across industries to not only identify risks, but to deliver actionable strategies that transform your Azure environment into a secure, scalable, and cost-optimized foundation for innovation.

📘 Workshop Phases:
Prepare – Collaborative sessions with Apex Cloud SMEs to define priorities, capture workload context, and align business goals with technical outcomes.
Review – In-depth analysis using Microsoft’s Well-Architected Tool and Apex best practices to score workloads against the five pillars of cloud excellence.
Improve – Delivery of a prioritized treatment plan, detailed roadmap, and actionable remediation recommendations tailored to your environment.

🧱 Key Elements:
• Security Excellence: Protect workloads with robust identity management, compliance alignment, and proactive threat defenses.
• Operational Resilience: Build observability, automation, and self-healing systems to reduce incidents and downtime.
• Performance at Scale: Ensure workloads adapt seamlessly to demand with scalable architectures and tested improvements.
• Always-On Reliability: Achieve uptime, redundancy, and disaster recovery goals through resilient designs.
• Smart Cost Optimization: Identify cost savings, align spend with value, and drive ROI across your Azure investments.

👥 Facilitation & Delivery:
• Delivered by Apex Cloud SMEs with deep Microsoft expertise and field experience.
• Engagement includes two interactive workshops, workload reviews, and roadmap delivery.
• Minimal client time commitment: ~6 hours per workload.
• Seamless remote or on-site delivery tailored to your team’s needs.

🎯 Audience:
• CIOs & Executives: Gain visibility into cloud risks, costs, and modernization opportunities.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Leaders: Benchmark workloads against proven best practices.
• Security & Compliance Teams: Reduce exposure while strengthening governance.
• Finance & Business Leaders: Ensure Azure spend is predictable, aligned, and delivering measurable value.

🧰 Resources Provided:
• Apex Cloud Architects & Engineers – Lead technical deep-dives, risk analysis, and remediation planning.
• Security & Compliance Experts – Identify gaps, enforce controls, and mitigate risks.
• FinOps Analysts – Deliver cost transparency, optimization strategies, and financial guardrails.

✅ Customer Outcomes:
• Reduced Risk Exposure: Uncover vulnerabilities and implement prioritized fixes.
• Optimized Costs: Reclaim wasted spend and achieve financial efficiency in Azure.
• Higher Performance & Availability: Build scalable, resilient workloads ready for growth.
• Actionable Roadmap: Clear, prioritized steps to drive cloud excellence with measurable business value.

Pricing:
• Engagements start at $4,000 per workload.
• Apex applies a $4,000 credit toward remediation services, offsetting review costs when partnering with our Cloud SME team.

👉 Why Apex Systems? With a proven track record across Fortune 500 clients, Apex delivers more than a review — we bring trusted Microsoft partnership, certified Cloud SMEs, and practical experience that ensures recommendations turn into real-world outcomes.