Azure Architecture Assessment
A short, senior-led engagement to identify risks, unblock decisions, and prepare for secure modernization and AI adoption.
Many organizations already run workloads on Azure but still struggle with
- Unclear or inconsistent architecture decisions
- Security and identity concerns blocking modernization
- Rising cloud costs without clear accountability
- Legacy design choices that make change risky
- Pressure to "add AI" without confidence in the foundations
When these issues accumulate, progress slows and decisions get postponed.
What this assessment includes
- Review of your current Azure architecture and key workloads
- Identity, access, and security posture review (Entra, boundaries, data access)
- Application and data readiness for AI (including RAG-style use cases)
- Identification of architectural risks, technical debt, and cost drivers
- Clear prioritization of what to fix, what to improve, and what to leave alone
- Concise findings summary
- Risk and opportunity map
- Practical recommendations and next steps
- No vendor lock-in, no implementation pressure
Who this is for
- NGOs and international organizations
- Private enterprises with regulatory or data-sensitivity constraints
- Teams already running on Azure
- Organizations preparing for modernization or private AI initiatives
- Staff augmentation or body shopping
- A sales-led cloud migration pitch
- A federal or clearance-required engagement
- A long consulting program
It is a focused, independent review led directly by a senior Azure architect.
- Early-stage startups without production workloads
- Organizations seeking low-cost delivery teams
How it typically works
Initial Conversation
Understand your context, goals, and current challenges.
Documentation Access
Review architecture documentation and connect with key stakeholders.
Targeted Review
Technical and security review sessions focused on your priorities.
Findings Delivery
Clear recommendations and actionable next steps.
typical duration: 2-4 weeks · fixed scope, senior-led
Real improvements from past assessments
What we typically find and fix.
Cost Optimization
Redundant resource cleanup. Orphaned disks, unused public IPs, idle load balancers, and forgotten dev/test resources still running in production subscriptions; often recovers 10-25% of monthly spend.
.NET performance tuning. Memory allocation patterns, connection pooling, async/await usage, and dependency injection lifecycles; proper tuning often allows downsizing App Service plans by 1-2 tiers.
Serverless migration. Event-driven workloads, scheduled jobs, and bursty APIs moved from always-on VMs or App Services to Azure Functions, paying only for execution time.
Database DTU reduction. Query tuning, missing indexes, N+1 patterns, and caching; clients often drop 2-3 DTU tiers after addressing the top 10 expensive queries.
Performance Improvements
Bottleneck identification. Application Insights, profiling, and load testing to find the real constraints; often it's not where teams expect: database locks, synchronous external calls, or serialization overhead.
Async and parallel processing. Blocking I/O converted to async, independent operations parallelized, queue-based processing; throughput can improve 3-10x without adding infrastructure.
Technology updates. .NET Framework to modern .NET, EF6 to EF Core, newer Azure services; modern runtimes often deliver 30-50% performance gains with minimal code changes.
Database tuning. Query plan analysis, statistics updates, partitioning strategies, read replicas for reporting, and connection pool optimization.
Ready to get clarity on your Azure architecture?
All requests are reviewed personally.
We’re on top of things and aim to respond to all inquiries within 24 hours.
Imhauser Technologies
McLean, VA
United States
Available on-site across the DC metro, Tysons, Reston, Arlington, and Washington, DC, as well as hybrid and remote worldwide.