Connection’s Cloud Services for Azure are designed to help your organization:
Optimize resources, including existing infrastructure and workflows.
Determine which workloads to move to the cloud.
Accurately predict monthly costs.
Smoothly migrate and operationalize an Azure cloud environment.
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Cloud Complexity Is Holding Organizations Back
of enterprises now operate with a hybrid or multicloud strategy1
of cloud spending is wasted2
of IT Operations teams’ time is spent responding to emergencies and interruptions3
Your Roadmap to a Stronger Azure Environment
A successful Azure environment starts with the right foundation. As a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP), Connection applies Microsoft’s best practices, including the Well-Architected Framework and Azure Landing Zones, to ensure your cloud is secure, scalable, and governable from day one.From there, our six-phase Azure services model guides you through planning, migration, modernization, optimization, and management.
Explore the services below to see how we support every stage of your cloud journey.
Comprehensive Services for Microsoft Azure
Connection offers a six-phase service lifecycle designed to improve security, scale easily, increase AI readiness, and unburden your IT staff so you can focus on what matters most.
Design Services for Microsoft Azure
Your Blueprint for the Cloud
Your cloud journey is unique. Build a clear, tailored plan for yours using Connection’s design services that combine strategic workshops, architectural reviews, and economic analysis to help you align cloud decisions to your business goals.
Your cloud journey is unique. Build a clear, tailored plan for yours using Connection’s design services that combine strategic workshops, architectural reviews, and economic analysis to help you align cloud decisions to your business goals.
- Assess and Align: Cloud strategy workshops designed to establish vision alignment and build a shared roadmap for your cloud future.
- Architect and Optimize: Azure Well-Architected reviews to identify improvements across cost, security, reliability, performance, and operations.
- Model and Justify: Cloud economics and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses that create ROI models to support executive buy-in and budget approval.
Implementation Services for Microsoft Azure
Where Strategy Becomes Reality
Turn your Azure blueprint into a secure, scalable environment. Connection builds the foundation you need for cloud operations, workload migration, and hybrid connectivity.
Turn your Azure blueprint into a secure, scalable environment. Connection builds the foundation you need for cloud operations, workload migration, and hybrid connectivity.
- Build the Foundation: Azure Landing Zone implementations that deliver a secure, compliant, and scalable architectural baseline.
- Connect Environments: Hybrid connectivity solutions built to ensure seamless operations across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments.
- Establish Identity Control: Identity and access management implementations for unified authentication and strengthened governance across all resources.
Migration Services for Microsoft Azure
Move with Confidence
Move to Azure with a secure, scalable, and well-planned path. Connection’s Azure Expert MSP team guides you from readiness assessments to full workload migration and modernization.
Move to Azure with a secure, scalable, and well-planned path. Connection’s Azure Expert MSP team guides you from readiness assessments to full workload migration and modernization.
- Assess and Plan: Cloud readiness assessments and cost modeling that build a clear, dependency-aware migration roadmap.
- Migrate and Modernize: Workload migrations across IaaS, apps, databases, and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) to help ensure performance, continuity, and modernization opportunities.
- Enable and Support: Microsoft program migrations and knowledge transfer that simplify licensing transitions and empower ongoing operations.
Rationalization Services for Microsoft Azure
Smart, Modern, and Ready for AI
Modernize your applications and data to improve agility, performance, and AI readiness. Connection helps you evolve your estate to support advanced analytics and modern cloud architectures.
Modernize your applications and data to improve agility, performance, and AI readiness. Connection helps you evolve your estate to support advanced analytics and modern cloud architectures.
- Prepare for AI: AI and data readiness services that position your architecture for machine learning, analytics, and Azure OpenAI adoption.
- Modernize Applications: Containerization, refactoring, and serverless adoption to help improve scalability, resilience, and development velocity.
- Optimize Licensing: Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) licensing guidance and entitlement mapping to reduce spend and ensure the right licenses match the right workloads.
Optimization Services for Microsoft Azure
Maximize Value. Minimize Spend.
Gain full visibility into your cloud spend and continuously improve efficiency. Connection identifies savings opportunities and helps you manage Azure finances with confidence.
Gain full visibility into your cloud spend and continuously improve efficiency. Connection identifies savings opportunities and helps you manage Azure finances with confidence.
- Identify Savings: Cloud cost optimization assessments designed to uncover waste, right size workloads, and recommend Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans.
- Control Cloud Spend: Expense management services to help ensure accurate chargebacks, financial clarity, and optimized Microsoft agreements.
- Refine Licensing: Licensing optimization expertise that maximizes entitlements such as Azure Hybrid Benefit to reduce overall cloud costs.
Microsoft Azure Managed Services
Your Cloud, Fully Managed
Keep your Azure environment secure, reliable, and high-performing with 24x7x365 proactive management. Connection delivers continuous monitoring, optimization, and strategic guidance.
Keep your Azure environment secure, reliable, and high-performing with 24x7x365 proactive management. Connection delivers continuous monitoring, optimization, and strategic guidance.
- Operate and Support: 24x7x365 operations and engineering support, delivering availability, stability, and day-to-day cloud performance.
- Monitor and Protect: Health monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery services, ensuring better resilience and reduced downtime risk.
- Secure and Optimize: Security posture management and cost optimization guidance so you can provide protection while maximizing cloud investment value.
Taming Hybrid Cloud Complexity to Drive Value
For today’s IT leaders and executives, thinking about the future means planning for accelerating adoption of AI and machine learning. The cloud enables the agility needed to run these workloads at scale, and hybrid cloud architectures are already the norm. Optimizing these environments remains challenging for IT teams, who continue to confront rising complexity, opaque costs, and longstanding skills gaps. Learn how the right Azure migration and management strategy—and the right partner—can help transform the cloud’s chaos into measurable value.Ready to talk about Connection’s Azure Services?
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1 Flexera, 2025 State of the Cloud Report.
2 Ibid.
3 New Relic, Report: Observability Forecast 2025.
2 Ibid.
3 New Relic, Report: Observability Forecast 2025.