Independent Azure assessment
Azure AI Platform Architecture Review
An independent, fixed-scope review of your Azure OpenAI or Microsoft Foundry platform (previously Azure AI Foundry) before it carries production traffic: the access model, data boundaries, gateway design, monitoring, and cost controls, plus the evidence your risk or security function will ask for once a pilot becomes a product.
Who this is for
- → Teams taking Azure OpenAI or Microsoft Foundry workloads from proof of concept to production
- → Platform teams consolidating scattered AI experiments onto a governed foundation
- → Regulated organisations whose risk function wants data-flow and access answers before sign-off
Typical triggers
- → A pilot is about to meet real users or real data
- → Every team built its own OpenAI resource and the landscape needs one owner
- → Security or compliance asked where prompts, embeddings, and outputs end up
- → Token spend is climbing and finance wants it attributed per use case
What we review
- → Access model: identities, keys, managed identities, and who can call which model
- → Gateway: APIM as an AI gateway, quotas, throttling, routing across deployments
- → Data boundaries: where prompts, completions, embeddings, and logs are stored and processed
- → Network: private endpoints, egress control, isolation from other workloads
- → Monitoring and cost: token usage, per-consumer attribution, alerting
- → Content controls: filtering configuration and the evidence it produces
What you receive
- → A reviewed access and gateway model with a target design
- → A data boundary map covering prompts, outputs, embeddings, and logs
- → Monitoring and cost controls with per-consumer attribution
- → An evidence model your risk team can reuse
- → Findings ranked by risk and a remediation roadmap
Typically 2 to 3 weeks, fixed scope and fixed fee.
How it works
- 1. Intake call to fix scope, access, and time zones
- 2. Read-only review of evidence and architecture
- 3. Remote working sessions with your teams
- 4. Findings, roadmap, and executive readout
- 5. Optional follow-up support
We work on technical architecture, cloud evidence, and remediation roadmaps. Legal interpretation and regulatory sign-off remain with your risk, compliance, or legal teams.
Bring a decision you need to defend later.
A short intake call fixes scope, access, and dates across time zones. You receive a written proposal with a fixed fee before anything starts. We run one or two assessments at a time; dates are agreed together with scope.
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