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Azure consulting: hosting, integration and architecture

Cloud hosting, deployment automation, security-conscious architecture, monitoring and integrations designed around your requirements.

What changes for you

  • The simplest Azure setup that does the job, with no service your project does not need.
  • Deployments that run from a pipeline, the same way every time.
  • Failures that reach a named person with a runbook before a customer reports them.
  • A cloud bill you can explain, with budgets and alerts on your own subscription.
  • Integrations designed for the day the system on the other side is slow or down.

Before you call us

  • Your website or app needs hosting, and nobody can say which Azure services it actually needs.
  • The Azure bill grows every quarter and nobody can say which workload is responsible.
  • Interfaces fail silently, and you hear about it from a customer.
  • A slow system downstream makes your own website or app slow.
  • A data-centre exit date is set, and there is no inventory of what has to move.

What’s included

  • An architecture that names only the services you need, and why each one is there
  • Hosting in your own subscription, with budgets and cost alerts
  • CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Bicep)
  • Monitoring and alerts that reach a named person, with runbooks
  • Identity instead of secrets: managed identity, Key Vault and least privilege
  • Decision records for every choice that matters

Not included unless written into your scope

  • Your Azure usage: Microsoft bills your subscription, and we estimate it but never promise a fixed cloud bill
  • Licences for the systems you connect to, such as an ERP or CRM
  • Out-of-hours or 24/7 cover, unless it is in a support agreement

How delivery works

  1. 1

    Conversation

    A call, a WhatsApp chat, or a written brief if you prefer. We ask about the outcome you need, the constraints you are under, and what has already been tried.

  2. 2

    Written scope

    Within 2 business days: a one-page scope with options and the assumptions behind them, and a fixed quote for each, or a short paid discovery first if too much is still unknown.

  3. 3

    Build in the open

    Short milestones against acceptance criteria agreed in the scope. Decisions are written down as they are made, so nothing important lives only in a meeting.

  4. 4

    Handover

    Documentation, runbooks and decision records, with access and ownership in your name. Defects found after launch are fixed within a window agreed in your scope; ongoing support is a separate, optional agreement.

Azure hosting for websites and web apps

Most projects need far fewer Azure services than a reference diagram suggests. A business website usually runs on Static Web Apps; an app with a database adds App Service or Functions and Azure SQL; integration services come in only when there is something to integrate. We start from the simplest architecture that does the job, and write down why each piece is there.

  • A deployment pipeline from your repository
  • Application Insights and Azure Monitor alerts
  • Budgets and cost alerts on your subscription
  • Key Vault and managed identity instead of passwords in settings

Azure integration: Logic Apps, API Management and Service Bus

For teams connecting ERP, CRM, e-commerce and partner systems, such as Dynamics 365, SAP and Salesforce, who need it to keep working when one of them does not. Already live? A reliability retrofit adds error handling, dead-lettering, alerting and identity to an estate that is running today.

  • API-first contracts, versioned and agreed before implementation
  • Bounded retry, a dead-letter route per interface with a named owner, and idempotent writes
  • Messaging that keeps a slow system off your user’s critical path
  • OAuth 2.0 at the gateway, with managed identity behind it
  • Reusable templates, so each new interface starts from a tested pattern
  • Alerts that reach a named person, and the runbooks they need

Azure architecture reviews, migration plans and cost reduction

For CTOs, heads of engineering and IT leads who need a senior second opinion, or a plan their own team can carry out. An architecture that grew one ticket at a time, an incident fixed with more instances, a data-centre exit with no inventory: each starts the same way, by counting what exists before designing anything.

  • An inventory of what you run and how it connects
  • A target architecture with decision records: what was considered, what was chosen, what it cost
  • A migration path in waves, with the risk in each one named
  • Cost and reliability findings, ranked by effort and impact

An Azure architect on contract or fractional terms

For system integrators, consultancies and in-house programmes that need a senior Azure integration architect for a phase, or a few days a month, without a permanent hire. We work under your brand and process if the programme needs it.

  • Requirement analysis and technical design documents developers can build from
  • Design authority: reviews, decision records and one consistent set of patterns
  • Mentoring for the team that will run the system
  • A handover with runbooks and the reasoning behind every decision

How we think

We start from the failure, not the happy path.

A system is defined by what it does when the other side is slow, wrong or gone: the payment provider at a sale, the ERP at month end, the website on the day it was built for. So that is where the design work goes first, and every choice that matters is written down: what was considered, what was chosen, what it cost.

Scroll the diagram sideways

A caller retries a failing service three times, with the interval growing between each attempt, up to a fixed attempt limit. attempt 1, at once attempt 2, after 2 s attempt 3, after 4 s, then stop Caller idempotent write Service transient fault add jitter, or every caller retries on the same schedule
Bounded retry with backoff: the first thing to check in any integration. Without jitter, every caller retries on the same schedule and the recovering service is hit by a wall.

Ways to work with us

Timelines are planning estimates for a typical scope. Yours goes in the written scope, with a fixed quote for each option, within 2 business days of our first conversation.

  • Hosting and deployment

    Your website or app set up on Azure in your own subscription: the simplest services that fit, a deployment pipeline, monitoring, budgets and alerts.

  • Architecture review

    About 5 working days: an inventory, cost and reliability findings ranked by effort and impact, and decision records, walked through on a call.

  • Integration build

    Interfaces designed, built and taken live with your team, scoped and quoted wave by wave.

  • Architect on contract

    A senior Azure architect for a phase, a few days a month, or a one-off second opinion on a design.

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Relevant work

From our founder’s previous employed roles, before Kakoriya Cloud, and labelled so. It is not the firm’s client work.

  • Founder experience

    200 integrations, counted before designed (on our founder’s portfolio)

    Migration architecture · Ferry and cruise

    A legacy integration estate with a data-centre exit date and no inventory: the count that had to come first, the 4 patterns it produced, and the design that was approved as the baseline for the build.

    Done by our founder in a previous employed role, before Kakoriya Cloud. The design was approved; the build began after our founder left.

  • Founder experience

    30 interfaces, one go-live date (on our founder’s portfolio)

    Integration platform · Construction and ERP

    Bespoke on-premises applications wired into a new ERP against a fixed date, with requirements still moving: the contract-first discipline that absorbed the churn, and what a batch of messages is worth.

    Done by our founder in a previous employed role, as part of a team, before Kakoriya Cloud.

  • Founder experience

    An estate nobody had documented (on our founder’s portfolio)

    Estate turnaround · Automotive

    An integration estate that arrived undocumented, deployed by hand and failing in ways nobody could explain: the order the team took it in, and the 5 decisions inside it that were our founder’s.

    Done by our founder in a previous employed role, as part of a team, before Kakoriya Cloud.

    Related: Maintenance & support

Founder experience

Figures from our founder’s previous employed roles, before Kakoriya Cloud. They are not the firm’s results.

  • 60+ interfaces built or materially changed two employer engagements, 2022 to 2025
  • 50+ integrations assigned a target pattern one estate of 200+, 2025 to 2026; design approved as the build baseline Read the write-up on our founder’s portfolio

Services we choose from

Most projects use a few of these, not all of them.

  • Azure Static Web Apps
  • App Service
  • Azure Functions
  • API Management
  • Logic Apps Standard
  • Service Bus
  • Event Grid
  • Azure SQL
  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Key Vault
  • Managed Identity
  • Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor
  • Bicep
  • Azure DevOps

Common questions

Do you need access to our subscription?

For a review, read-only access with cost data is enough. For build work we prefer a subscription you own, with access granted per environment through your own identity provider and removed at handover.

What will Azure cost us each month?

Azure is billed by usage, so nobody can honestly promise a fixed bill. Your scope includes an estimate at your expected usage, and we set budgets and alerts so a change shows up early.

Can you help reduce our Azure bill?

We can look, and we never promise a number before we have. The common wins are plans sized for a peak that never comes, premium tiers nothing needs, and workloads that could share a plan. Each finding comes with what it saves and what it costs to change.

What does an Azure architecture review include?

About 5 working days: an inventory of what runs and how it connects, reliability and cost findings ranked by effort and impact, decision records for the changes worth making, and a call to walk through the written report.

Logic Apps or Functions?

Usually both: Logic Apps for orchestration your team can read, Functions for mapping and logic that needs real code. We say which, interface by interface, and write down why.

Can you integrate Dynamics 365, SAP or Salesforce on Azure?

Yes. Those three are where most of our founder’s integration work was, in previous roles before Kakoriya Cloud: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations through data management packages and OData, SAP S/4HANA over OData behind API Management, and Salesforce over REST from Functions fed by Service Bus.

Do you work with on-premises systems?

Often. An on-premises application behind a queue or a gateway is the normal case. The new platform pieces we build run on Azure.

Can you take over an integration estate another vendor built?

Yes. We start by counting and instrumenting what exists, before changing any of it.

Can you work alongside our existing partner?

Yes. A second pair of senior eyes next to a delivery team is one of the most useful shapes this work takes.

Do you work under our brand and process?

Yes, if the programme needs it. Our founder spent 7 years inside system-integrator delivery teams before starting Kakoriya Cloud.

How much time can you give us?

It is agreed per engagement and written into the scope, so neither side is guessing. Tell us the dates and the days a week; we will tell you honestly whether we can cover them.