Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's public cloud platform — compute, storage, networking, identity, AI and databases in 60+ regions worldwide.
Microsoft Azure in practice
Microsoft Azure is the strategic cloud platform for mid-market and enterprise organisations across the DACH region. The difference from AWS lies less in the technology than in the integration: identities come from Entra ID, Microsoft 365 hangs off the same directory, and licences run through the same agreement. Data residency is governed by the EU Data Boundary, which Microsoft delivered in three waves — customer data from January 2023, pseudonymised personal data from January 2024, and since February 2025 professional services data as well.
Regionally, Germany West Central, Switzerland North and the Austria East region opened in Vienna in 2025 with three availability zones are available. The practical pitfall is rarely the technology but cost control: without budgets, tags and firm naming conventions an environment becomes unmanageable within months. Alendris therefore builds Azure environments as a landing zone aligned with the Cloud Adoption Framework — hub-spoke networking, central logging and cost governance from day one, described in Bicep or Terraform.
How Alendris helps
From our projects
- Zero Trust Infrastructure from the Data Center to the Remote WorkplaceComplete modernization of server infrastructure, identity, and remote access into a consistent Zero Trust architecture — from hyperconverged storage to hardened server and client baselines to secure remote work without a single publicly reachable device.
- Replacement of Citrix environment with Azure Virtual DesktopFull migration of 8,000 Citrix users to a highly automated AVD target architecture.
- Security Modernization with a Focus on Microsoft 365 & SOC ReadinessSustainable improvement of the security posture in the Microsoft ecosystem with a focus on identity protection, tenant hardening, and SOC readiness.
- Complete IT Renewal with Security by DesignComprehensive IT modernization with a focus on ransomware resilience, Zero Trust, and Modern Workplace.
- NIS2 Compliance Implementation for Critical InfrastructureHolistic implementation of NIS2 requirements: From gap analysis and technical implementation to audit readiness.
- Enterprise Rollout of Copilot for Microsoft 365Structured rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot: From tenant preparation and governance to user adoption.
- AI-powered Automation with Azure AI Foundry & n8nComplete automation of document-based business processes through AI-supported workflows – from data extraction to decision support.