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If you already run on Microsoft, this is the short path.

We design, build and run workloads on Azure, and can place committed spend through our partnership. Identity is usually the reason clients land here — Entra ID is already the front door to everything else they own.

Not a boxed licence — we design and operate workloads here, and can place your committed spend through us.

What we work with

The products, and who each one suits.

6 listed
01

Azure Virtual Machines

Windows and Linux VMs. Where your Windows Server or SQL Server licences carry Software Assurance, Hybrid Benefit can apply them against the Azure cost — we check what qualifies before anyone plans around it.

Estates coming off on-premises hardware without rewriting the application first.

02

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Managed Kubernetes with Entra ID integration for cluster access.

Containerised workloads inside a Microsoft-centred organisation.

03

Azure SQL Database and Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Managed relational databases; the SQL Server-compatible option matters when that is what you already run.

Line-of-business applications with a SQL Server past.

04

Microsoft Entra ID

The identity service the rest of the Microsoft estate authenticates against, conditional access included.

Anyone deciding who gets into what — which is everyone.

05

Azure OpenAI Service

OpenAI models served inside your own tenant, subject to its network and data controls.

Teams that need a model but cannot send prompts to a public endpoint.

06

Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft's bundled analytics platform — OneLake storage, warehouse, pipelines and Power BI in one tenant.

Organisations whose reporting already lives in Power BI.

What buying through us changes

A partnership is only worth what it changes.

Better than list

On committed Azure spend. Reservations and savings plans are where the number moves — we place your commitment through our partnership rather than at list. Licences can count too. Where Windows Server or SQL Server licences carry Software Assurance, Hybrid Benefit applies them against the Azure bill — we check what qualifies before it goes into a plan.

Named contacts

An escalation path into Microsoft, not a queue. Useful when a quota, a region capacity question or a licensing interpretation is what is holding the project.

Startup credits

Microsoft for Startups offers Azure credits. We sponsor the application and prepare the technical case — the award is Microsoft's decision.

How we help

The work around the product.

  • Tenant and landing zone — subscriptions, management groups, policy, RBAC and a billing structure that survives the second project.
  • Identity — Entra ID design, conditional access, privileged access, and joining it to the applications that were never meant to talk to it.
  • Migration from on-premises — VMware and Hyper-V estates assessed workload by workload, with the ones that should not move called out.
  • AKS build and run — cluster design, ingress, GitOps delivery, upgrades and the on-call runbook that goes with them.
  • Data and BI — Data Factory or Fabric pipelines, a modelled warehouse, and Power BI reading from one definition of each metric.
  • Cost — reservation coverage, Hybrid Benefit, rightsizing, and a monthly review in language finance can act on.
Where this is not the answer

Azure is the right answer when the organisation is already Microsoft — identity, Office, SQL Server. It is a weaker answer when none of that is true and you are choosing services on their individual merits. We also keep licensing and platform separate: Microsoft 365 and an Azure workload are two conversations, and we will not fold one into the other to make a number look better. For a platform defect we escalate; the fix is Microsoft's.

Next step

Buying Microsoft Azure? Talk to us first.

Tell us what you are trying to do and we will come back with the sizing, the licensing and the price — from a partner, within two working days.