Well-architected
assessment
assessmentA well-architected assessment that benchmarks your cloud environment against industry best practice.
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Why Azure estates need a well architected review
Cloud estates built at speed tend to carry hidden cost, exposure and fragility that nobody has had time to check.
69%
Cloud budgets that keep overrunning
In a Gartner Peer Community survey of 200 IT leaders, 69% said their organisation overran its cloud budget in 2023. Oversized resources and unused commitments rarely show up until someone reviews the architecture
Gartner Peer Community, One-Minute Insights on cloud spending, 2024 Click Here
31%
Settings that quietly expose data
Secrets left in plain sight are common. Among organisations using Azure Logic Apps, 31% had at least one stored directly in their workflows, Tenable’s 2025 Cloud Security Risk Report found. Build time defaults often outlive go live.
Tenable, Cloud Security Risk Report, 2025. Click Here
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Designs that assume the cloud never fails
Third party providers, including cloud and internet companies, caused about two thirds of publicly reported outages over nine years, according to Uptime Institute. A review tests whether workloads would survive a provider or region failure.
Uptime Institute, Annual Outage Analysis, 2026. Click Here
Each of these shows up quickly once an estate is checked against Microsoft's or AWS's own framework, one pillar at a time.
Introduction
A structured review of Azure, AWS and hybrid cloud environments against recognised architecture frameworks
A Well-Architected Assessment evaluates how effectively your Azure, AWS or hybrid cloud environment aligns with industry-recognised architecture frameworks across security, reliability, operational excellence, cost optimisation, performance efficiency and sustainability. Cybit’s cloud architects review cloud resources, networking, security controls, governance, resilience and operational processes to identify risks, inefficiencies and optimisation opportunities. Organisations typically undertake a Well-Architected Assessment after rapid cloud growth, migration programmes, acquisitions, divestments or significant application modernisation projects. The outcome is a prioritised roadmap that helps improve security, reduce unnecessary costs, strengthen resilience and ensure cloud platforms are aligned to business objectives.
Our Delivery Framework
Why Choose Cybit
Cloud environments often evolve quickly, leaving behind technical debt, operational risk and unnecessary cost. Cybit combines expertise across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), hybrid cloud infrastructure, security and FinOps to identify opportunities that go beyond a framework score. Our architects focus on practical recommendations that balance security, resilience, performance and cost, creating improvement plans that are realistic, prioritised and aligned to business outcomes. We help organisations understand not only where risks exist, but how to address them in a way that supports future growth and innovation.
Our Process
Assess
Understand where you are today, identify opportunities for improvement and build a clear picture of your technology landscape
Advise
Turn insight into action with expert guidance and recommendations based on your business goals
Deliver
Implement solutions that create measurable impact and lasting value
Support
Our proactive management, ongoing optimisation and expert support keeps your tech performing at its best
Data
What the Analysts Say
Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service forecasts that virtual desktops will be cost effective for 95% of the workforce by 2027, up from 40% in 2019. Cost effective in general is not the same as cost effective for your user base, which is what an assessment establishes.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service, August 2025. Click Here
What's Included
Benchmark against all five Well Architected pillars
Cost analysis with right sizing and commitment recommendations
Security and identity posture review
Reliability, resilience and backup validation
Performance and scalability review
Prioritised action plan your team can realistically delivertext
Helpful Information
Frequently Asked Questions
Microsoft's own framework for assessing a cloud environment across cost optimisation, security, reliability, performance efficiency and operational excellence.
Environments built quickly under project pressure are exactly the ones that accumulate cost and risk, because the pressure was on delivery rather than architecture. Recent build is not the same as reviewed build.
Flexera's 2026 State of the Cloud Report found organisations estimate 29% of their IaaS and PaaS spend is wasted, the first increase in five years. How much of that sits in your own estate is what the cost analysis establishes.
A prioritised action plan with effort and impact stated for each item, not a generic scorecard.
Yes. Azure workloads are reviewed against Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework, which has five pillars, and AWS workloads against the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which adds a sixth pillar for sustainability.
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