FIXED SCOPEone-off build
Ship an Azure deployment, end to end.
Fixed scope, fixed price, senior-only team. Landing zone to production workloads in 8-14 weeks.
FIXED SCOPE
- Zero juniors on client work
- Fixed quote in week 1
- Code, infra, runbook — yours
Azure Development ServicesBuilt on Real Cost Discipline.
Our Azure development services exist for teams already living in the Microsoft ecosystem, or moving there on purpose. AKS clusters sized for what you actually run, not what a tutorial suggested. Azure Functions that don't cold-start when a customer's watching. Landing zones with governance built in from day one, not bolted on after the first audit finding.
- Bicep / Terraform
- AKS
- Azure DevOps
- Cost-optimized
Why Entalogics for Azure
Four problems every
Azure development
company should catch.
Resource groups nobody owns. AKS sized for a peak that happens twice a year, billed for 24/7 anyway. No tagging strategy, so finance asks where the money went and nobody has an answer. We fix this before the next invoice becomes a fire drill.
Cost01
The bill was confusing because nobody built a system to read it.
Reserved instances, Hybrid Benefit, Spot VMs, storage tiering — each one saves real money, but only applied to the workload it actually fits. We tag everything, set budget alerts per subscription, and turn a confusing invoice into a dashboard someone can act on.
Architecture02
Workloads went live before the organizational layer existed.
Subscriptions, management groups, Azure Policy, RBAC — skip this and you're retrofitting governance onto production later, which is always harder and always more expensive. We deploy the landing zone first.
State03
A VM got picked because it was familiar, not because it was right.
Azure SQL instead of self-managed SQL Server on a VM. App Service instead of IIS on a box someone has to patch. AKS only when container orchestration is a real requirement, not a resume line. Every service choice has to justify its own operational cost.
Type safety04
Someone changed a setting in the portal, and now nobody can explain why.
Bicep or Terraform, every resource, stored in git, deployed through Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions. Drift detection catches the manual portal click before it becomes an untraceable production incident.
When Azure, when not
Azure is a tool.
Not the only cloud,
and never cheap by default.
Azure earns its place when your organization already runs on Microsoft. It's not automatically the right cloud for everyone, and treating it as a default choice is how teams end up overpaying for the wrong architecture. We'll say so on the first call.
PICK AZURE WHEN
- Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and SQL Server are already core to your stack — the integration and licensing savings justify Azure on their own
- Hybrid cloud is a genuine requirement — Azure Arc gives you one governance plane across on-prem and cloud
- Regulatory compliance spans multiple geographies — Azure's compliance coverage is the broadest of any cloud
- OpenAI-model access matters to your product — Azure holds exclusive API access other clouds don't have
CONSIDER AWS WHEN
- You're greenfield with no Microsoft dependencies and want the widest managed-service catalogue
- Custom silicon changes your cost math — Graviton and Trainium offer price-performance Azure can't match
- Your team already runs on AWS and there's no real enterprise reason to switch
WE SAY NO WHEN
- "Azure because Microsoft is our vendor" — that's a procurement relationship, not a cloud architecture decision
- "Lift and shift our VMs and call it done" — that's renting someone else's datacenter at a markup
- "Full Azure migration in four weeks" — that ship has sailed
What we build on Azure
Azure development services
and consulting we deliver.
Eight ways this work shows up for real clients. Each one built with governance and cost controls from day one, not added after a compliance finding.
- S01
AKS-based application platforms
AKS-based application platformsKubernetes clusters with autoscaling node pools, network policies, Azure AD integration, Helm-based deployment. AKS treated as a platform decision, not the default hosting choice.
AKSHELMAZURE ADCALICO - S02
Azure serverless and Functions development
Azure serverless and Functions developmentEvent-driven compute for API endpoints, queue processors, and scheduled jobs. Consumption plan for variable load, Premium plan wherever a cold start would actually cost you a customer.
AZURE FUNCTIONSEVENT GRIDSERVICE BUSCOSMOS DB - S03
Azure landing zones and governance
Azure landing zones and governanceEnterprise-scale landing zones with management groups, subscription vending, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and cost guardrails — the foundation before the first workload lands.
BICEPAZURE POLICYDEFENDERCOST MANAGEMENT - S04
Azure microservices and API development
Azure microservices and API developmentService-to-service architecture on AKS or Container Apps, API Management fronting it all, with typed contracts between services that don't drift silently over time.
AKSAPI MANAGEMENTCONTAINER APPSSERVICE BUS - S05
Data platforms on Azure
Data platforms on AzureAzure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics — operational and analytical workloads separated deliberately, with storage tiering that matches how the data actually gets accessed.
AZURE SQLCOSMOS DBDATA FACTORYSYNAPSE - S06
Cloud migrations to Azure
Cloud migrations to AzureOn-prem to Azure, AWS to Azure, or an old Azure estate modernized properly. Workload by workload, using Azure Migrate, with compliance and cost analysis built into the plan, not bolted on after.
AZURE MIGRATEAZURE ARCSITE RECOVERYEXPRESSROUTE - S07
Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelinesPipelines, repos, boards, and artifacts — or GitHub Actions targeting Azure. One pipeline building, testing, and deploying both infrastructure and application code.
AZURE DEVOPSGITHUB ACTIONSBICEPTERRAFORM - S08
Azure managed services
Azure managed servicesOngoing monitoring, cost reviews, patching, and incident response after go-live — so the environment that launched clean doesn't quietly drift back into the mess we were hired to fix in the first place.
AZURE MONITORDEFENDERSENTINELDATADOG
The playbook
Azure development
patterns we ship on repeat.
Patterns from real enterprise Azure deployments — not a Microsoft Learn tutorial dressed up as a case study.
P01
Bicep-first infrastructure
Every resource defined in Bicep modules, deployed through CI/CD, no portal changes surviving past a PR. Drift detection makes the infrastructure as reviewable as the application code sitting next to it.
P02
FinOps tagging from day one
Cost center, environment, owner, and workload on every resource. Budget alerts per subscription. Right-sizing reviewed monthly, not discovered during a year-end audit.
P03
PaaS before IaaS, and a documented reason when it isn't
Azure SQL over SQL Server on a VM. App Service over a managed VM someone has to patch. Every IaaS choice has to justify itself in writing.
P04
AKS with autoscaling and Spot where it fits
System pool on reserved instances for stability. User pools on cluster autoscaler and Spot VMs for anything that can tolerate interruption. Node pools sized from measurement, not from a guess.
P05
Defender for Cloud and Sentinel from the start
Security posture management and SIEM in place before the first compliance audit forces the question, not after.
P06
Azure DevOps pipelines with real environments
Stage-gated deployments, approval gates, environment locks, rollback automation. No production deploy that depends on someone being paying attention at the right moment.
Signature case
A SaaS platform,
migrated from AWS to Azure with 34% cost reduction.
A B2B SaaS platform on AWS — $42k/mo infrastructure cost, no reserved instances, EKS control plane charges on 8 clusters, and a SQL Server workload paying full license cost without Hybrid Benefit. Migrated to Azure with AKS (free control plane), Azure SQL with Hybrid Benefit, Spot VMs for dev/staging, and FinOps tagging across all subscriptions in 12 weeks. Monthly spend dropped to $27.7k.
Before
AWS · $42k/mo · EKS control plane charges · full SQL Server licensing · no cost tagging
After
Azure · $27.7k/mo · free AKS control plane · Hybrid Benefit · FinOps dashboard live
- Monthly infra cost−34%
- Migration duration12wk
- Downtime during migration0
- Cost visibilityfull
Industries we serve
Azure development
across industries.
We've delivered Azure development services for SaaS, finance, healthcare, retail, and enterprise IT — anywhere Microsoft's ecosystem, compliance coverage, or hybrid cloud model is already part of the decision.
- SaaS & Enterprise Software
- Finance & Fintech
- Healthcare
- Retail & eCommerce
- Manufacturing & Logistics
- Government & Public Sector
Engagement shape
Eight to ten weeks
on an Azure engagement.
Workload by workload. The current infrastructure stays live the entire time we work.
- W01
Audit + RFC
Cost analysis, security posture review, resource organization audit, tagging gap assessment. A ranked, dollarized plan, not a list of vague concerns.
- W02–03
Landing zone + first workload
Bicep landing zone deployed, Azure Policy enforced, first production workload live with monitoring and cost tagging. Real cost data in your dashboard by week three.
- W04–08
Workload by workload
Each workload migrated or deployed with right-sized compute, proper storage tiering, and Defender enabled. Your product keeps running throughout.
- W09+
Handoff + FinOps
FinOps dashboard live, security posture green. Runbook handed over, or we stay on for Azure managed services.
Stack
Tools we
Tools we reach
reach for for first.
Our default Azure cloud development stack — picked for enterprise production.
IaC
Bicep · Terraform · ARM Templates
Compute
AKS · App Service · Azure Functions · Container Apps
Data
Azure SQL · Cosmos DB · Azure Storage · Redis Cache
Security
Defender for Cloud · Sentinel · Key Vault · Managed Identity
CI/CD
Azure DevOps · GitHub Actions · Flux · ArgoCD
Monitoring
Azure Monitor · Application Insights · Log Analytics · Datadog
Engagement
Three ways to hire
Azure developers
at Entalogics.
No hourly billing for thinking time. Fixed quote or a transparent monthly rate.
DEDICATED TEAMmonthly
Hire dedicated Azure engineers.
Senior cloud architects and DevOps engineers embedded in your Slack, your Azure DevOps, your standups. Pause, resize, or exit with 30 days' notice.
PER ENGINEER
- Same senior bar as fixed-scope
- Embedded in your team
- Founder-direct escalation
ENGAGEMENTcustom
Strategic Azure consulting partnership.
A standing partner for enterprise cloud — landing zone governance, cost optimization, security posture, migration roadmap, hiring help.
PROCUREMENT-FRIENDLY
- Multi-quarter roadmap
- Architecture and hiring partner
- Procurement-friendly paper
FAQ
Questions we get on almost
every Azure call.
Azure vs AWS, cost control, AKS vs App Service, timelines, existing estates — in roughly the order people ask.Azure if you already run Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and SQL Server — the integration and licensing savings justify it on their own. AWS if you're greenfield with no Microsoft dependencies and want the broadest managed-service catalogue. We'll tell you which fits on the first call.
FinOps tagging on every resource, budget alerts per subscription, reserved instances for stable workloads, Spot VMs for dev and non-critical compute, and monthly right-sizing reviews. Cost control is an ongoing practice, not a one-time setup you do at launch.
App Service for straightforward web apps and APIs — lower overhead, simpler to operate. AKS when you genuinely need container orchestration or workload portability across clouds. Most applications don't need Kubernetes, and we'll tell you if yours is one of them.
Depends on scope and how much of your estate already exists. The week-one audit gives real, dollarized numbers — the quote is fixed from there, not a range that grows every sprint. Most engagements run 8-14 weeks end to end.
Yes. The engineers who write the RFC ship the infrastructure. No handoff mid-engagement, no account manager standing in between.
Yes. We audit what's there, tag what's untagged, right-size what's over-provisioned, and deploy new workloads with IaC alongside what already exists. No rip-and-replace unless the estate genuinely needs it.
Founder-direct
Tell us whatyou're building.
Thirty minutes with the founder — a senior Azure architect, the relevant playbook, and a candid read on whether Azure is the right cloud, or AWS and a multi-cloud approach actually fits your workload better.