MICROSOFT AZURE SERVICES
Azure Managed Services and Cloud Expertise Across the Full Lifecycle
Modernizing and operating Azure takes more than a one-time migration. As an Azure Managed Service Provider, Connection helps organizations plan, implement, migrate, modernize, optimize, and manage Azure environments while strengthening security, improving cost visibility, and extending internal IT expertise.
Our professional and managed services support customers from early strategy through continuous 24x7 operations.
Unlock the Full Strategic Value of Microsoft Azure
Your Azure environment should support where your organization is today and where it needs to go next. Connection combines strategic guidance, project-based services, Microsoft expertise, and ongoing operational support to help you make informed Azure decisions.
Start with an assessment. Build a secure and governable foundation. Move applications and data. Modernize for cloud-native services and AI. Improve cost visibility and performance. Or extend your team with ongoing Azure management.
Connection can meet you at the stage that matches your current environment and business priorities.
Turn Azure Complexity into Business Value
Improve visibility, reduce wasted spend, and align Azure consumption with business priorities.
Add Microsoft-certified Azure expertise without placing more day-to-day demands on internal IT resources.
Support governance, cloud security monitoring, backup, recovery, and operational readiness across your Azure environment.
Lacking the right service support can make your shift to cloud more expensive and may often take more time than expected, resulting in additional costs.
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89%
of enterprises now operate with a hybrid or multicloud strategy.1
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28%
of cloud spending is wasted.1
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9 out of 10
IT skills shortage expected to impact nine out of ten organizations by 2026 with a cost of $5.5T.2
1 Flexera, 2026, State of the Cloud Report
2 Business Wire, 2026, IT Skills Shortage Expected to Impact Nine out of Ten Organizations by 2026 with a Cost of $5.5 Trillion in Delays, Quality Issues, and Revenue Loss
Support at Every Stage of Your Azure Journey
Connection combines professional and managed services across six Azure lifecycle stages. You can engage at the point that reflects your current environment, from initial planning and architecture through migration, modernization, optimization, and ongoing management.
Develop an Azure strategy and roadmap based on your business goals, technical requirements, financial priorities, and current environment.
Build a secure and governable Azure or hybrid foundation using Microsoft-aligned architecture and controls.
Assess dependencies and move workloads, applications, databases, and data through a phased migration approach.
Modernize applications and data to take advantage of cloud-native services, analytics, and AI capabilities.
Review Azure costs, resource use, licensing, governance, and workload performance to identify opportunities for improvement.
Extend your IT team with ongoing Azure operations, monitoring, security, optimization, resilience, and strategic guidance.
As an Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP), we’ve proven our ability to design, deploy, and manage advanced cloud environments, helping organizations modernize and maximize performance through highly automated Azure services.
Connection has earned Microsoft Solutions Partner designations and specializations across cloud, AI, security, modern work, and other key Microsoft solution areas, demonstrating deep technical expertise and proven capabilities across the Microsoft ecosystem.
Design: Azure Cloud Strategy and Planning
Your Blueprint for the Cloud
Our Cloud Strategy Services help align Azure decisions with your business priorities, technical requirements, and financial goals.
Our cloud strategy and planning capabilities include:
- Cloud strategy workshops and readiness assessments
- Workload, application, security, network, and identity reviews
- Microsoft Well-Architected Framework reviews
- TCO, ROI, licensing, and projected-spend analysis
Build a practical cloud strategy roadmap before investing in implementation or migration.
Explore Azure Assessments
Implement: Build a Secure Azure Foundation
Where Strategy Becomes Reality
Turn your Azure strategy into a secure, scalable, and governable cloud or hybrid environment.
Connection supports implementation through:
- Azure Landing Zone deployment
- Azure Policy and role-based access control
- Identity, networking, and workload enablement
- Security hardening, backup, and recovery
- Azure Local configuration and Azure Arc registration
Establish the architecture, controls, and connectivity needed to support future workloads and ongoing management.
Discuss Your Azure FoundationMigrate: Azure Cloud Migration Services
Create an Azure cloud migration strategy that accounts for your workloads, application dependencies, risks, and projected costs.
Our Azure Migration Services include:
- Azure Migration Assessments and phased roadmaps
- Infrastructure and virtual-machine migration
- Application and database migration
- Azure Virtual Desktop migration
- Azure Local and hybrid migration scenarios
- Microsoft program migrations and knowledge transfer
Move workloads through a planned approach designed to support operational continuity.
Explore Azure Migration Services
Rationalize: Modernize Applications, Data, and AI
Develop a cloud modernization strategy that prepares applications and data for cloud-native services, analytics, and AI.
Connection supports:
- Application replatforming, rearchitecting, and rebuilding
- Data consolidation and modernization
- Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse Analytics
- Azure OpenAI proofs of concept
- Containers, Azure Kubernetes Service, microservices, and serverless architectures
- Platform as a service adoption
Modernize the areas that can benefit most while addressing technical debt and future requirements.
Explore Modernization OpportunitiesOptimize: Improve Azure Cost and Performance
Improve Azure cost visibility, resource use, licensing alignment, and workload performance.
Our Azure Cost Optimization Services include:
- Cost optimization assessments and rightsizing reviews
- Azure Reservations and Savings Plans
- Azure Hybrid Benefit and MACC alignment
- Licensing, renewal, and true-up reviews
- Tagging, chargeback, and showback
- Application, database, and virtual-desktop tuning
Identify practical opportunities to improve financial control and get more value from your Azure environment.
Optimize Your Azure Investment
Manage: Microsoft Azure Managed Services
Your Cloud, Fully Managed
Microsoft Azure Managed Services give organizations a way to extend internal capabilities with continuing operational and strategic support.
Connection acts as an extension of your IT team, supporting Azure environments through 24x7x365 operations, cloud security monitoring, cost and governance reviews, infrastructure health management, backup and disaster recovery, and customer-success resources.
Our Azure Cloud Managed Services support day-to-day administration, issue management, and operational continuity through:
- 24x7x365 operations
- Azure-certified engineers
- Incident and problem management
- Infrastructure as a Service management
- Platform as a Service management
- Change and configuration management
- Knowledge-base documentation and operational practices
- On-demand service engineering
Maintain greater visibility into your Azure security posture and policy environment with:
- Conditional access management
- Cloud security posture management
- Security and compliance monitoring
- Security and compliance reporting
- Identification of common gaps and patterns
- Reviews and recommendations
- Remediation support
Managed Azure Services can help your organization review resource use, consumption, and financial accountability through:
- Rightsizing reviews and recommendations
- Azure Advisor reporting
- Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment alignment
- Billing and subscription insights
- Consumption reporting
- Allocation and showback
Support infrastructure health and operational response with:
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Alerting and escalation
- Resource-health management
- Automatic ticket creation
- Infrastructure patching
- Support during availability events
Strengthen backup, recovery, and resilience planning through:
- Backup assessments
- Backup implementation and management
- Redundancy management
- High-availability support
- Load balancing
- Replication
- Azure Site Recovery
- Business continuity and disaster recovery guidance
Keep operational work connected to broader priorities with dedicated technical and customer-success resources. Depending on the selected service scope, support can include:
- A Customer Success Manager
- A Technical Account Manager
- A service portal and dashboard
- Operational reporting
- Progress reviews
- Quarterly business reviews
- Roadmap, consumption, and performance alignment
Cloud Management Tools for Visibility and Control
Connection supports managed operations with tools that complement native Microsoft Azure capabilities. These platforms help teams monitor resources, automate routine work, manage security posture, control cloud costs, and coordinate service workflows.
Monitor and manage operations across Azure, hybrid, and multicloud environments. Operational tools support infrastructure visibility, issue detection, resource management, and continuing improvement.
Support automation, provisioning, policy enforcement, cost visibility, and operational control across cloud and hybrid resources.
Gain visibility into cloud security posture, policy alignment, potential gaps, protection needs, and compliance-related reporting.
Coordinate incident workflows, issue resolution, service delivery, approvals, and operational reporting through structured service-management processes.
Start Where Your Business Needs To
You don’t need to follow a fixed path or begin with a large transformation project.
Whether you are assessing your current environment, building an Azure foundation, preparing to migrate, modernizing applications and data, controlling costs, or seeking ongoing support, Connection can help identify the right next step.
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Azure Migration Assessment
Azure Managed Services
Azure Local Services
Move Your Azure Strategy Forward
From planning and implementation to migration, modernization, optimization, and management, Connection can help determine the right path for your Azure environment.