Azure architecture & cloud modernization
Plan a practical Azure architecture around security, cost, and maintainable growth
MARKNA helps growing businesses and software teams assess Azure options that fit their current workload, operating capacity, and modernization priorities without assuming unnecessary enterprise complexity.
Architecture that connects business constraints to technical decisions
A useful Azure design is more than a diagram or a list of services. It must account for identity, network boundaries, data, deployment, monitoring, recovery, security, cost, and the team's ability to operate it.
MARKNA combines application and software-architecture context with Azure planning. That is especially useful when cloud work is tied to a legacy .NET or SQL Server application, new APIs, integrations, or a staged modernization roadmap.
How the architecture assessment is developed
The work starts with requirements and workload evidence, then narrows the design to the smallest architecture that satisfies the real security, reliability, performance, cost, and operational needs.
- Step 1
Understand the workload
Document users, traffic, data sensitivity, integrations, availability needs, deployment constraints, compliance context, team skills, and budget guardrails.
- Step 2
Establish the Azure foundation
Assess subscriptions and environments, identity and access, network boundaries, secrets, logging, tagging, policy, backup, and recovery expectations.
- Step 3
Select services deliberately
Compare App Service, Functions, containers, Azure SQL, storage, integration, and other platform options against operating effort and cost—not novelty.
- Step 4
Plan migration and coexistence
Sequence application, database, API, and integration changes so legacy and modern components can coexist safely where necessary.
- Step 5
Make the design operable
Prepare diagrams, decision records, implementation priorities, cost assumptions, infrastructure-as-code recommendations, monitoring needs, and handover guidance.
Possible deliverables
- Current-state and requirements assessment
- Target Azure architecture and decision record
- Security, identity, networking, and secrets recommendations
- Cost assumptions and proposed budget, tagging, and governance guardrails
- Application, API, SQL Server, and data migration plan
- Infrastructure-as-code and deployment recommendations
- Monitoring, backup, recovery, and operational handover plan
Architecture boundaries
- Recommendations are based on workload evidence and operating needs rather than vendor status.
- Service selection and cost estimates depend on workload evidence and current pricing.
- Proposed security and resilience measures are tied to stated requirements; no architecture eliminates all risk.
- Kubernetes, microservices, and multi-region designs are used only when their complexity is justified.
Related MARKNA capabilities
Define the right Azure starting point
Share the current application, data, hosting, security expectations, growth assumptions, and cost constraints. We will help identify the first architecture decision that needs evidence.