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MICROSOFT AZURE · MANAGED BY CYBER KAIZEN

Azure Managed Services – Hosted, Secured, Optimised

Whether you’re running applications in Azure, hosting infrastructure in the cloud, or planning your first migration – we design, deploy, and manage your Azure environment so you get the performance, the security, and the cost control your business needs.

Microsoft Partner. CISSP-certified leadership. Under 15-minute average response time.

We’ll assess your current Azure environment – or plan your first one – at no cost.
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THE PROBLEM

Azure Is Powerful. Unmanaged Azure Is Expensive and Exposed.

Microsoft Azure gives you virtually unlimited computing power, storage, and networking. But without active management, most businesses end up with one of three problems:

Runaway costs

Azure charges by the second. Without right-sizing, reserved instances, and regular reviews, your monthly bill creeps upward – and nobody can explain why. The average business overspends on Azure by 30–40% according to industry benchmarks.

Security gaps

Default configurations leave storage accounts publicly accessible, network security groups wide open, and administrator accounts without MFA. Your data is in the cloud, but it's not protected.

No one managing it

Your Azure environment was set up by a consultant who's long gone. Nobody monitors it. Nobody patches it. Nobody knows what half the resources are even doing. When something breaks, you scramble.

Sound familiar? Here’s how we fix it.

OUR AZURE SERVICES

What Our Azure Managed Services Include

  • Service 1 Azure Hosting and Infrastructure
We design, deploy, and manage your Azure infrastructure – virtual machines, networking, storage, and databases. Whether you’re running line-of-business applications, hosting servers, or operating hybrid environments, we keep everything running, patched, and secured.

What we manage:

Virtual machines (Windows and Linux)

Azure Virtual Networks and VPN gateways

Azure Storage (blob, file, table, queue)

Azure SQL Database and Cosmos DB

Azure Active Directory / Entra ID

Load balancers and application gateways

Azure Bastion for secure remote access

  • Service 2 Azure Migration
Moving on-premises servers, applications, or data to Azure – planned, tested, and executed with zero downtime. We handle the architecture design, the migration itself, and the post-migration optimisation.

What we deliver:

Discovery and assessment of your current environment

Azure architecture design (right-sized from day one)

Server migration (physical to Azure VM, Hyper-V to Azure, VMware to Azure)

Application migration and modernisation

Data migration with validation

DNS and networking cutover

Post-migration performance tuning

  • Service 3 Azure Security and Compliance
Teams is a powerful platform – but without governance, it becomes an unmanageable mess that nobody trusts.

What we configure:

Azure Security Centre / Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Network Security Groups and firewall rules

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) – least privilege

Azure Key Vault for secrets management

Storage account encryption and access policies

Diagnostic logging and audit trails

Compliance reporting (Cyber Essentials, GDPR, ISO 27001 alignment)

  • Service 4 Azure Cost Optimisation
Azure billing is complex. We monitor your usage, identify waste, and right-size your resources – so you only pay for what you actually use.

What we review:

Right-sizing (VM sizes matched to actual workload)

Reserved Instance and Savings Plan recommendations

Unused and orphaned resources (disks, IPs, snapshots)

Dev/test vs production pricing

Azure Advisor recommendations

Monthly cost trend analysis with plain-English reporting

Compliance reporting (Cyber Essentials, GDPR, ISO 27001 alignment)

Typical result: We reduce Azure spend by **20–40%** through right-sizing and reserved instance planning alone.

  • Service 5 Azure Monitoring and Support
Azure billing is complex. We monitor your usage, identify waste, and right-size your resources – so you only pay for what you actually use.

What's included:

Azure Monitor and alerting configuration

Performance baseline establishment

Incident response and escalation

Monthly health reports

Under 15-minute average response time

Qualified UK-based engineers (not an overseas call centre)

  • Service 6 Hybrid Cloud and On-Premises Integration

Not everything belongs in the cloud. We connect your Azure infrastructure to your on-premises systems – securely – so you get the best of both.

What we support:

Site-to-site VPN and ExpressRoute

Azure AD Connect / Entra Connect (hybrid identity)

Azure File Sync (on-premises file servers backed to Azure)

Hybrid backup and disaster recovery

Under 15-minute average response time

Conditional Access policies across cloud and on-premises

Who Is This For?

Azure Managed Services for Growing UK Businesses

You might need Azure managed services if:

  • You're running servers that are approaching end of life and need a cloud alternative
  • You have an Azure environment, but nobody is actively managing or monitoring it
  • Your Azure bill keeps rising and nobody can explain why
  • You need to host a business application in the cloud
  • You want disaster recovery or backup infrastructure in Azure
  • Your current IT provider set up Azure but doesn't understand it
  • You need hybrid connectivity between your office and the cloud

If even one of these applies, we should talk.

FAQ

Azure Managed Services – Common Questions

Do I need Azure if I already have Microsoft 365?
Not necessarily. Microsoft 365 handles email, collaboration, and productivity tools. Azure is for hosting servers, applications, databases, and infrastructure in the cloud. Some businesses need both; many only need Microsoft 365. We’ll tell you honestly which applies to you.
Azure uses consumption-based pricing – you pay for what you use. A small business running two virtual machines and basic networking might spend £200–500/month. Larger environments with multiple servers, databases, and networking can cost significantly more. We design your environment to be cost-effective from day one and review it monthly to prevent waste.
Yes. We handle the complete migration – assessment, architecture design, server migration, data validation, and cutover. We’ve migrated everything from single file servers to multi-server environments with Active Directory, SQL databases, and line-of-business applications.
We deploy all Azure resources in Microsoft’s UK data centres (UK South and UK West regions) unless you specifically require otherwise. Your data stays in the UK.
No. We manage both from the same team. One relationship, one invoice, one support number. That’s the point.
Azure has a 99.99% uptime SLA for most services. But single-region deployments can still be affected by outages. We design redundancy into your environment – availability zones, geo-redundant storage, and tested backup and recovery procedures – so an outage doesn’t mean downtime for your business.

READY TO START?

See What Azure Could Do for Your Business

Book a free Azure review. We’ll assess your current infrastructure – cloud, on-premises, or both – and show you exactly where Azure fits, what it would cost, and how we’d manage it.

No hard sell. No jargon. Just an honest conversation about your infrastructure.

Book Your Free Azure Review

Call us: 0800 208 8456  |  Email: hello@cyberkaizen.co.uk

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