Azure Consulting & Development for Greenville Businesses

It depends entirely on what you run. A typical 10–20 person business using a few VMs, a SQL database, storage, and backup spends between $500–$2,000/month on Azure resources, plus our management fee. The key is right-sizing — we scope your environment to your actual workloads so you’re not paying for resources you don’t use. We provide a detailed cost estimate before building anything, and we optimize your spend monthly.

Microsoft 365 handles email, files, and productivity apps. Azure handles infrastructure — servers, databases, applications, networking, and disaster recovery. They complement each other but serve different purposes. If your business runs line-of-business applications, hosts databases, needs remote desktop access, or requires server infrastructure beyond what M365 provides, Azure fills those gaps. If M365 covers everything you need today, you may not need Azure yet — and we’ll tell you that honestly.

Yes. We migrate physical servers, on-premise VMs, and workloads from other cloud providers to Azure. Our process includes a full assessment of your current environment, a migration plan with timeline, and execution with zero or minimal downtime. We handle networking, DNS cutover, application testing, and post-migration validation. Most small business migrations complete within 2–6 weeks depending on the number of servers and complexity of applications.

Azure itself is HIPAA-eligible — Microsoft signs Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) for covered services. But HIPAA compliance depends on how your environment is configured, not just where it’s hosted. We build Azure environments with the controls HIPAA requires: encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, audit logging, automated backup policies, and network segmentation. If you’re a healthcare organization, we configure your Azure environment to meet HIPAA requirements from day one.

Both are capable cloud platforms, but for most small businesses already using Microsoft 365, Azure is the natural fit. Azure integrates natively with Entra ID (Azure AD), Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and the entire Microsoft ecosystem your team already uses. Licensing benefits like Azure Hybrid Benefit can reduce VM costs significantly. AWS is a strong platform, but if your business runs on Microsoft, Azure gives you tighter integration and lower friction.

Cost management is built into everything we do. We start by right-sizing your resources during the architecture phase — no oversized VMs or unnecessary services. We use reserved instances for predictable workloads to cut compute costs by up to 72%. We configure budget alerts so there are never surprise bills. And every month, we review your usage, identify idle or underused resources, and optimize. You get a clear cost report showing exactly what you’re spending and why.