Azure Consulting

Azure consulting for HealthTech platforms that need secure foundations and reliable operations

IG CloudOps helps HealthTech and healthcare SaaS teams improve Azure architecture, governance, identity, monitoring, cost control and operational resilience.

  • Azure landing zone reviews
  • Azure governance and policy support
  • Identity, access and privileged role reviews
  • Monitoring, alerting and recovery planning
  • Azure cost optimisation
  • Technical evidence for assurance and procurement

Azure can be a strong platform for HealthTech — if the foundations are right

Many HealthTech teams choose Azure for Microsoft identity, enterprise familiarity, security tooling, data services and integration. Without a clear landing zone, governance model and operating process, Azure environments quickly become difficult to manage, evidence and scale.

Identity and access complexity

Entra ID, role assignments and privileged access often grow faster than governance can keep up.

Subscription and resource sprawl

Multiple subscriptions, inconsistent naming and unclear ownership make Azure hard to manage at scale.

Inconsistent tagging and cost allocation

Without clean tagging, cost and resource ownership becomes guesswork.

Weak policy enforcement

Azure Policy is underused, allowing configuration drift and unintended exposure.

Monitoring gaps

Azure Monitor and Log Analytics often miss service-level visibility for customer-facing workloads.

Poor backup and recovery evidence

Backups exist on paper, but recovery testing and clear evidence are rare.

Manual changes with limited traceability

Portal changes leave no audit trail that is easy to explain during assurance.

Unclear environment separation

Dev, test and production are not consistently separated at network, identity or policy level.

Azure consulting services for HealthTech teams

Azure landing zone review

Review subscriptions, management groups, naming, policies, networking, identity and governance.

Azure architecture review

Assess resilience, security, scalability, integration patterns, data flows and operational risks.

Azure identity and access control

Review Entra ID, privileged access, role assignments, conditional access and access review processes.

Azure monitoring and observability

Improve Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, alerting and service-level dashboards.

Azure cost optimisation

Review sizing, reservations, storage, licensing, idle resources, tagging and budget controls.

Azure compliance evidence support

Help produce technical evidence for audits, procurement, customer questionnaires and governance reviews.

Where does your Azure environment sit today?

Stage 1

Reactive Azure

The platform works, but issues are fixed manually and evidence is scattered.

Stage 2

Controlled Azure

Core controls exist, but governance, monitoring and cost ownership need tightening.

Stage 3

Assured Azure

Access, logging, backup, monitoring, policy and documentation are consistent and reviewable.

Stage 4

Optimised Azure

The platform is resilient, cost-aware, automated, observable and ready for customer scrutiny.

How an Azure HealthTech review works

  1. 1

    Discovery call

    Understand platform, product, customer requirements, compliance drivers and current pain points.

  2. 2

    Azure environment review

    Review subscriptions, identity, networking, security, monitoring, backup, resilience, cost and governance.

  3. 3

    Risk and opportunity report

    Identify quick wins, high-risk gaps and longer-term improvements.

  4. 4

    Prioritised delivery plan

    A clear action plan across security, compliance evidence, reliability, cost and DevOps.

  5. 5

    Optional implementation support

    IG CloudOps can help implement improvements or support your internal team.

Need a clearer view of your Azure HealthTech risks?

We can review your Azure environment and show where to improve security, governance, cost control, monitoring and evidence.

Azure for HealthTech FAQs

Do you support Azure-only HealthTech platforms?+

Yes. Many HealthTech teams use Azure for identity, integration and enterprise reasons. We can support Azure-only environments end to end.

Can you help with Azure landing zones?+

Yes. We review, design and improve Azure landing zones across subscriptions, management groups, networking, policy, identity and monitoring.

Can you review Azure security and access controls?+

Yes. We review Entra ID, privileged access, role assignments, conditional access, service principals and access review processes.

Can you help with Azure cost reduction?+

Yes. We review sizing, reservations, storage, licensing, idle resources and tagging so savings do not undermine performance or compliance.

Can you support our internal Azure team?+

Yes. We often work as a co-managed partner, adding senior Azure capacity to your team without replacing it.

Can you help prepare Azure evidence for customer assurance?+

Yes. We help produce technical cloud evidence that supports customer questionnaires, procurement and internal governance reviews.