# Azure Assessment > Review your Azure environment for security, cost and resilience, or plan a move to the cloud with a clear view of what it involves. Page: https://itechnologyaustralia.com.au/assessments/azure-assessment Whether you already run workloads in Azure or are weighing a move, an assessment shows what you have, what it costs and where the risks are. We review against Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework and give you a practical plan rather than a list of warnings. ## What it looks at - **Architecture & reliability**: How workloads are designed, whether they are built to stay available, and where single points of failure sit. - **Security & governance**: Role-based access, network exposure, Defender for Cloud recommendations, policies, naming and tagging. - **Cost & performance**: Idle and oversized resources, reservation and licensing options, and where spend is growing without a reason. - **Migration readiness**: For on-premises systems, which workloads are ready to move, which need rework, and the order that makes sense. ## What we commonly find - **Resources are exposed to the internet**: Open management ports and storage accounts or databases with public access are a common way in for attackers, and easy to leave behind after a project. - **Access has grown without review**: Broad Owner and Contributor roles get handed out and never revisited, leaving no clear record of who can change what in your environment. - **You're paying for resources nobody uses**: Oversized virtual machines, idle services and unattached disks keep billing every month, and the cost is rarely visible until someone looks. - **Backup and recovery have never been tested**: Workloads running in the cloud still need backups and a recovery plan. Many have neither configured, or have never tried a restore. ## What you get - Inventory of your Azure resources and how they connect - Findings report covering security, reliability and cost - Savings opportunities with estimated impact - Prioritised remediation or migration roadmap - A walkthrough session with our cloud engineers ## Ideal if - Businesses whose Azure bill is rising and hard to explain - Teams that inherited an Azure environment without documentation - Organisations considering moving servers or applications to the cloud - Companies that need to show their cloud setup meets security requirements ## Frequently asked questions ### What does an Azure assessment cover? We review your architecture, security and governance, costs and resilience against Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework. If you are moving from on-premises, we also assess which workloads are ready to migrate. ### Can you help reduce our Azure costs? Yes. We look for idle and oversized resources and for reservation and licensing options, and we estimate the impact of each saving so you can decide what is worth acting on. ### Do you need access to our Azure subscription? We ask for read-only access to review how your environment is built and configured. We don't make changes during the assessment. ### We haven't moved to Azure yet. Can you assess our readiness? Yes. We review your current servers and applications, identify what can move as-is and what needs rework, and recommend a sensible order, with the cost and effort involved. --- iTechnology Australia: call 1300 803 757, email info@itechnologyaustralia.com.au, or send an enquiry or book a discovery call at https://itechnologyaustralia.com.au/contact-us. All pages for agents: https://itechnologyaustralia.com.au/llms.txt (index) and https://itechnologyaustralia.com.au/llms-full.txt (full text).