Azure Vitals Check

Rapid Health Assessment for
Azure Platforms.

BlakYaks Azure Vitals Check is a rapid health assessment service designed to identify significant weaknesses in existing Azure deployments.

Service Overview

Ensure Your Azure Health Today

Our comprehensive evaluation spans security, resilience, operations, and cost management. Primarily focused on Azure landing zones, our service also offers an optional Kubernetes assessment when relevant.

The Vitals assessment is completed in under three hours, with detailed reports ready for review within 72 hours. Our Azure and Kubernetes specialists are available to walk you through the findings and recommendations.

Challenges

Understanding
the Need

Azure deployments often evolve organically over time, leading to the emergence of weak spots due to various factors:

  • Evolving Security Threats

    New services introduce new risks as the threat landscape changes.

  • Operational Changes

    Teams and processes evolve, potentially creating operational vulnerabilities.

  • Cost Management

    As cloud deployments expand, cost control becomes increasingly critical.

  • Configuration Drift

    Over time, policy compliance may weaken, and configurations may drift.

Key Features

Why Choose Azure Vitals Check assessment?

BlakYaks Azure Vitals Check provides a thorough Azure health assessment within 2-3 hours, delivering comprehensive reports in 72 hours. Our specialists finalise and share these reports with customer stakeholders, equipping your team with essential insights for Azure operational strategy and planning.

Comprehensive Assessment

Evaluates operational, resilience, security, and cost risks.

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Minimal Access Required

Vitals operates with read-only access and is agentless.

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Executive Summary

Highlights key impacts and critical remediation needs.

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High Value, Low Cost

Rapid, cost-effective assessment with minimal customer input required.

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Impact Categorisation

Assesses impact levels (high, medium, low) and major service categories (e.g., security, resilience, availability).

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Expert Support

BlakYaks Azure and Kubernetes specialists are available to address remediation needs.

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TECHNICAL
DATASHEET.

what’s included?

Check out our datasheet for a detailed overview of the technical specs of our Azure Vitals Check solution.

From operational performance assessments to security evaluations, compliance checks, and cost-optimisation strategies, this resource offers a comprehensive overview of the technical specifications that make Vitals an essential tool to quickly identify gaps in your Azure environment.

EXamples

What do we
look for?

    • Private services exposed publicly

    • Weak firewall protection

    • Allowing writes that should be prohibited (e.g. to databases)

    • Allowing insecure transfer mechanisms and connections (e.g. FTP or HTTP)

    • Using outdated security protocol versions (e.g. old TLS versions)

    • Critical security groups not in place for key services

    • Critical keys, secrets and vaults exposed

    • Paying for services you are not utilising

    • Paying too much for services (e.g. oversized machines)

    • Not using the right Azure features that would lower run costs

    • Paying for premium services when they are not needed (could be downgraded)

    • Paying for orphaned and unused resources (e.g. disks)

    • Making limited use service features that would reduce run costs (e.g. autoscaling and reservations) costs

    • Weak or missing policies that would prevent unnecessary spend

    • Critical services deployed without  high availability features

    • Load balancers and DNS servers not balancing the traffic loads

    • Missing important virtual network integrations that will impact service in certain circumstances

    • Application data hosted in the wrong disk subsystems

    • Missing important service backups in your backup schedule

    • Missing key regional and site availability / resiliency settings that assures high availability for key services

    • Weak cover for regional outrage scenarios

    • Using native services that are about to stop working

    • Unmanaged identities in critical service processes

    • Still relying on local authentication processes

    • Too easy to delete critical components that should be better protected

    • Services being deployed that are not compliant with your own policies, conventions and standards

    • Missing service diagnostics data that will be critical during an outage

    • Still using services that are about to stop working or stop being supported

Deliverables & Outcomes

What You Receive

After a high-value, three-day engagement, BlakYaks delivers:

Quality Assessment Report (PDF):

Detailed analysis of all services in your Azure Landing Zones and, where applicable, Kubernetes workloads.

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Expert Azure Team

Available to manage and execute significant change programs or provide advisory support for customer’s teams.

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Executive Summary and Walkthrough (Presentation)

Senior engineers present findings to key stakeholders, emphasising urgent risks and long-term roadmap considerations.

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Comprehensive Service Scope

Rapid assessment of all Azure services to identify and mitigate material risks.

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Contact

Better
To Know!

Get in touch for your Azure Vitals Check assessment

Assess your Azure platform health in under half a day with high-value reports prepared by BlakYaks. Get your detailed assessment within three days and ensure your Azure deployment is secure, resilient, and cost-efficient. Contact us today!