
Well Managed Review
Azure Well Managed Review
The Azure Well Managed Review is an architectural assessment developed to help cloud architects build the most secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure possible for their applications.
Beneficial Consultation
The review is a conversation between a qualified Version 1 professional and the customer, it is not an audit. The output is a report which includes actionable recommendations to meet Azure best practices and increase business value delivered by cloud. The Version 1 approach to conducting Azure Well Managed Reviews involves a short, high-value engagement.
Why Version 1 should deliver your Well Managed Review
Microsoft Certified
License and Microsoft Expertise
Full Stack Specialists
Well Managed Review Engagement
Preparation
Identify the workload to be reviewed, prepare the relevant data and arrange the review with the appropriate stakeholder from the customer side.
Review
The review is a conversation between a Version 1 professional and the customer. The review can be conducted onsite or remotely.
Report
A report aligning the workload with Microsoft Azure best practices, categorised as Critical, Needs Improvement or Meets Best Practice.
Next Steps: Remediation
The report highlights the priority with which remediation should be carried
out.
Benefits of Well Managed Review
Understand and improve security
Optimise application resilience
Reduce operational costs
Realise business value cloud can deliver
Increase code quality and reduce time to market
Increase system performance
The 6 Well Managed Pillars
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Operational ExcellenceThe ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures.
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SecurityThe ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
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ReliabilityThe ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service failures, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient network issues
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Performance EfficiencyThe ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.
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Cost OptimisationThe ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resources.
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DevOpsFocus on the ability to track changes and to perform build, test and deployments in the cloud environment.

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