What Should an Azure Architecture Assessment Cover?
A practical guide to the Azure cost, governance, landing zone, security, AI, ownership, and implementation questions an assessment should answer before more work is approved.
Guides
Azure Architecture Knowledge Hub.
A short RedDogSME guide shelf for teams reviewing Azure cost, governance, landing zone structure, AI readiness, ownership, and implementation scope before work expands.
Start with Azure Architecture Assessment if cost, governance, ownership, AI readiness, security, or implementation scope is unclear.
Start with assessment
Use these when the team needs to decide whether Assessment, Blueprint, Build, Architecture Office, or Governance is the right starting point.
- What Is Azure Architecture as a Service?
How fixed scope assessment, blueprinting, production build support, Architecture Office, and governance services help Azure and AI initiatives move forward.
- How Azure and AI Architecture Services Are Priced
How Azure Architecture Assessment, blueprint sprints, pilot to production builds, Architecture Office retainers, and managed governance are scoped and priced.
Production readiness
Use these when Azure or AI work is close to production and needs clearer architecture, controls, owners, or Microsoft alignment.
- Azure Landing Zone Drift: Warning Signs and What to Review
How Azure landing zones drift across identity, networking, policy, logging, cost, and ownership, and what teams should review before adding more workloads.
- When Does a Growing Azure Program Need a Landing Zone?
Practical signs that an Azure program needs landing zone structure as workloads, users, or AI services grow.
- What to Decide Before Moving AI Foundry Into Production
Azure AI Foundry production decisions for teams that need model access, retrieval, tool use, safety, identity, monitoring, and cost controls.
- Azure AI Foundry Production Readiness Checklist
Review checklist for teams moving Azure AI Foundry, agents, AI Search, MCP tools, and Azure OpenAI patterns toward production.
- CAF, WAF, Landing Zones, and ADRs for Azure Decisions
How teams use Microsoft guidance, systems thinking, and ADRs to approve Azure and AI architecture decisions.
Cost and governance
Use these when Azure spend, ownership, recurring review, and operating controls need a practical decision path.
- Azure Cost Governance: What To Fix Before Buying More Capacity
How to connect Azure spend, ownership, budgets, reservations, tags, retention, and cleanup decisions before cloud cost grows again.
- How to Scope an Azure Cost Cleanup
How Azure teams can scope cost cleanup around owners, budgets, retention, reservations, rightsizing, and governance.
- Azure Cost and Governance Checklist for Production Programs
A short checklist for reviewing Azure platform cost, ownership, tags, budgets, and governance before adding more infrastructure.
- How to Run an Azure Architecture Board With a Recurring Review Cadence
A practical model for recurring Azure architecture decisions, owner actions, ADRs, cost review, AI governance, and implementation oversight.
Decision records
Use these when architecture choices need owners, tradeoffs, and a written record the team can keep using.
- What an Azure Architecture Decision Record Should Include
ADR structure for Azure teams that need decisions, tradeoffs, owners, and implementation actions to survive beyond the meeting.
Bring the Azure or AI initiative that needs clearer scope.
Use the first call to talk through the business goal, Azure context, timeline, blockers, and what needs approval.