Shaping Cloud

Azure Health Check

Our Azure Health Check service performs a review of your Azure environment and makes recommendations that help you optimise your use of cloud by improving performance, exploiting flexibility to match demand, use new features, check security, comply with best practice and control your costs.

Features

  • Check the health of your Azure infrastructure and operational practices
  • Performed by our experienced specialists
  • Identifies critical issues, security risks and opportunities for optimisation
  • Reports on deviations from best practice and Microsoft recommendations
  • Provides advice on cloud governance
  • Exploits flexibility to match demand
  • Recommendations on service improvements and alignment to best practice

Benefits

  • Recommendations on configuration, utilisation and cost optimisation
  • Cloud governance improvements and security risk exposure mitigations
  • Adoption of best practice
  • Architecture design assurance
  • More predictable costs, help you set and manage your budgets
  • Strong governance framework and policies to control and allocate costs
  • Optimised use of cloud resources to meet business needs
  • Exploit cloud commercial models to optimise use and cost

Pricing

£4,750 to £19,200 a unit

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

1 1 2 7 8 0 5 5 0 7 3 6 9 8 9

Contact

Shaping Cloud SC Customer Relationship Team
Telephone: 01614085333
Email: sales@shapingcloud.com

Planning

Planning service
No

Training

Training service provided
No

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
No

Quality assurance and performance testing

Quality assurance and performance testing service
No

Security testing

Security services
Yes
Security services type
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
No

Service scope

Service constraints
No

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
We respond to calls in line with their priority and usually within two working days.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Support levels
We provide a Monday to Friday office hours support service for our health check services.

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2019
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
No

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

Consuming cloud services from the main hyper-scale cloud providers and being a part of their commitment to being carbon neutral by 2025 and carbon negative by 2030. Right sizing workloads in the cloud and regularly reviewing consumption further supports these targets and ensures minimum carbon footprint.
As part of our engagement with any Customer, we are able to measure the reduction in carbon footprint as a result of adopting cloud services in preference to traditional technology. This supports each organisation in achieving their own plans to become net zero.
We are a 100% cloud-based SME, with a minimal carbon footprint and a target to have a zero-carbon footprint by 2030 - so partnering with us also supports moving to a zero carbon footprint in your supply chain.
Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

We are a UK-based SME who creates UK jobs. We have programmes to recruit from a diverse base, including career changers. We are already a diverse workforce and have targets to ensure we continue to be diverse.
We are committed to supporting our Customers in the public sector with their plans to support help communities manage and recover from the impact of COVID-19.
Use of cloud services ought to ensure your organisation is agile in the response to recovery. Right-sizing and optimising your use of cloud, which we can help you with, will ensure a sound investment of public funds - retaining as much funding as possible for deliver of public services and interventions such as Covid-19 recovery.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

We are a UK SME with a diverse workforce. We recognise the benefits from having a diverse workforce and therefore target people from all backgrounds to work at Shaping Cloud.

We support career changers and measure values and culture alignment along with career potential higher than formal education - ensuring equal opportunity for those from all economic backgrounds. We partner with a variety of organisations to provide digital training for those from diverse and deprived backgrounds – providing them with their first employment experience subsequent to this training.

All our employees are paid above the Living Wage and receive additional benefits, such as private health - having a positive impact on themselves and their families and communities.
All our employees receive training in digital as well as five days paid leave for learning every year.

We pay all genders equally, according to merit.
Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

We are a UK SME with a diverse workforce. We recognise the benefits from having a diverse workforce and therefore target people from all backgrounds to work at Shaping Cloud.

We measure values alignment along with career potential higher than formal education and background - ensuring equal opportunity for those from all economic and racial backgrounds, as well as those who require additional support or technology in order to carry out their work effectively. E.g. individuals with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, behavioural or neurological impairment, as well as the needs of those for whom English is not their first language.

Our recruitment practices value each person according to their experience as well as their potential and do not discriminate in any way on the grounds of race, colour, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

All employees have a personal development plan and access to a personal coach to support them in their professional and personal development - ensuring everyone has equal opportunity for career progression. Each person's performance and contribution is reviewed at least annually, which includes 360 degree views, to determine whether they are ready for career progression. This career progression is awarded on the basis of readiness and not on the basis of a post becoming available or an individual line manager making that decision. In this way, every person has equal opportunity.

Implementation of digital services requires consideration to ensure no user is excluded from using the service. This is all the more important with respect to public services. We support our customers with advice with respect to accessibility, and we tailor our solutions and services to our client’s needs in this area.
Wellbeing

Wellbeing

We prioritise the wellbeing of our workforce, with private health, excellent work-life balance, flexible working location and hours, coaching, and personal development.

We regularly canvas for feedback from our employees to ensure they all enjoy work and feel rewarded for their efforts.

We have an always available Wellbeing group internally, which arranges activities and challenges throughout the year to promote good health as well as providing a variety of suggestions and opportunities to ensure good mental health.

We provide two paid volunteering days per year per employee, and encourage use of these to improve the communities we are a part of.

Pricing

Price
£4,750 to £19,200 a unit
Discount for educational organisations
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at sales@shapingcloud.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.