Achieve Cloud Excellence with Expert Thinking’s Assessment Framework.

Unlock innovation, agility, and growth with a well-architected cloud environment. Expert Thinking’s tailored Assessment Framework empowers your organisation with actionable insights and strategies to maximise value from your cloud platforms. Our assessments are designed to align with your business objectives, ensuring a secure, efficient, and scalable cloud foundation.

Many of our assessments are eligible for funding support from the cloud vendors, enhancing affordability and maximising value.

Explore how our assessments align your cloud strategy with your business objectives and deliver measurable results.

Tailored Cloud Assessments to Meet Your Strategic Goals.

Choose from modular assessment options to address your specific challenges, from cost optimisation and compliance to cloud migration and data strategy:

Select your assessment:

    Select your assessment:

AWS Cloud Assessment

Comprehensive analysis using the AWS Well-Architected Framework to improve security, performance, and cost efficiency. Gain a prioritised roadmap tailored to your business goals.

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AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) Assessment

Smooth your AWS migration journey with readiness evaluations, a business case, and a roadmap to minimise risks and unlock AWS funding opportunities.

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Azure Cloud Assessment

Optimise your Azure environment with targeted insights into security, operational excellence, and scalability using the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework.

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Azure Migrate Assessment

Confidently plan Azure migrations with readiness reviews and a detailed roadmap aligning with your business needs.

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Azure Data Assessment

Enhance your data health, governance, and architecture with actionable recommendations for compliance and scalability.

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Microsoft Fabric Readiness Assessment

Equip your team to leverage Microsoft Fabric’s unified data capabilities with an assessment focusing on governance and skill readiness.

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AI Readiness Assessment

Prepare to embed AI into your business with a comprehensive evaluation of infrastructure, capabilities, and operational readiness.

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You can also read our Assessment Framework Overview PDF here:

Why Choose Expert Thinking?

The Expert Thinking Nine-Step Process.

We employ a structured and collaborative nine-step approach, ensuring every assessment delivers measurable business outcomes.

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Transformative Business Benefits.

With our Assessment Framework, you can achieve:

Cost Optimisation:

Eliminate inefficiencies and reduce unnecessary spend.

Performance Validation:

Ensure reliable operations aligned with your objectives.

Increased Agility:

Build a platform that evolves with your business.

Scalability and Availability:

Support long-term growth with robust cloud architecture.

Enhanced Security:

Identify vulnerabilities and strengthen compliance.

Improved Risk Management:

Mitigate risks for a resilient cloud environment.

Streamlined Migrations:

Accelerate ROI with validated, disruption-free migrations.

Real-World Success.

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Azure Cloud Assessment

Projected £20,000+ Annual Savings with an Azure Well-Architected Review

A leading technology provider needed to transition their Azure environment to production while consolidating resources to cut costs and simplify management.
Expert Thinking’s Azure Well-Architected Review delivered actionable insights to streamline their transition, improve governance, and maximise Azure ROI.

Key outcomes included:

  • Projected £20,000+ Annual Savings: Achieved through tenant consolidation, right-sizing and reserved instances.
  • SOC2 Readiness: Strengthened security for public endpoints. Customer provided prioritised backlog with remediation items required to achieve SOC2 compliance.
  • Improved Governance: A robust framework for scalability security and cost control.
  • 12-Month Roadmap: Focused on security and operational efficiency.

With Expert Thinking’s targeted approach, this organisation overcame critical challenges, realising immediate benefits and securing a foundation for long-term success in Azure.

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AWS Cloud Assessment

Comprehensive AWS Strategy for AWS Divestment

A leading education technology provider needed to establish independent AWS infrastructure as part of their divestment from its parent organisation. Expert Thinking’s assessment delivered actionable recommendations to enable a clean transition and optimise their AWS environment in the process.

Key Outcomes:

  • Enhanced Security and Governance: Multi-account Landing Zone architecture with centralised security tooling, audit logging, and budget controls.
  • Cost Optimisation: Reserved Instance strategy projected to reduce EC2 costs by up to 72%.
  • Disaster Recovery: Tailored DR options and associated costs provided to achieve required RPO and RTO.
With Expert Thinking’s comprehensive assessment and recommendations, this customer is positioned to execute a clean divestment while establishing a scalable, secure, and efficient AWS cloud platform that adheres to Well-Architected best practices. The proposed solutions provide a clear path forward with defined timelines and effort estimates for each implementation phase.
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Azure Cloud Assessment

Projected 50% Cost Savings with a Well-Architected Review

A leading global hotel wholesaler reduced database and distributed search costs by a projected 50% while boosting security and efficiency through our tailored Azure assessment.

Key Outcomes

We identified critical risks and inefficiencies, delivering:

  • Enhanced security measures.
  • Actionable steps to align Azure with business goals.
  • Enhanced governance framework for scalability and cost control.
  • A future-ready roadmap for optimised Azure platform and Elasticsearch implementation.
With a secure, efficient and performant platform they’re now set for scalable growth and ongoing innovation.

With Expert Thinking’s targeted approach, this organisation overcame critical challenges, realising immediate benefits and securing a foundation for long-term success in Azure.

Resource Library

From enhancing security to optimising costs and aligning with best practices, our blogs dive into the key benefits of tailored assessments.

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Ready to Transform Your Cloud Environment?

Complimentary 2-Hour Cloud Technical Workshop: Turning Vision into Measurable Business Impact.

Our 2-Hour Cloud Strategy Workshop is designed to deliver actionable insights that perfectly complement our industry-leading Assessment Framework. Led by Expert Thinking’s seasoned cloud professionals, this hands-on session provides tailored guidance to align with your top priorities, from cost efficiency to security, compliance, and agility.

Book a call today to get a customised roadmap from a trusted partner dedicated to your success.

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Workshop Agenda Highlights:

  1. Intro & Objectives
    Define your cloud priorities.
  2. Current Challenges
    Explore your cloud adoption, compliance, and cost issues.
  3. Assessment Insights
    Identify quick wins for optimisation and compliance.
  4. Cloud Maturity Roadmap
    How we build a phased, secure, and scalable plan.
  5. Action Planning
    Outline next steps, resources, assessment modules and support.

Limited slots are available for this complimentary workshop. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your cloud strategy.

Transforming a Commercial Property Specialist’s Azure Environment.

Through our comprehensive cloud assessment, Expert Thinking transformed our customers Azure environment, delivering a secure, scalable, and efficient solution that maximised their cloud investment.