Azure services
Azure services and subscriptions
Looking to set up Azure in your organisation backed-up by technical expertise?
Whether you’re looking for an Azure subscription, help with understanding costs, technical advice or want someone to implement an Azure project for you, we can help. We are Azure and M365 specialists.
Access our Azure expertise in one of two ways:
What is Azure?
Azure is Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering which provides cloud-based compute, databases, storage, networking, identity, virtual desktops and a wide variety of services such as Cognitive Services (including Azure OpenAI) connected over the internet or a VPN.
Azure comprises a global network of Azure regions all interconnected with Microsoft’s own fibre backbone. Each Azure region (e.g. UK South or US West) comprises at least 3 data centres.
Key benefits of Azure include:
No upfront costs and no termination fees
Pay for what you use
Easily add or remove services
Easily scale services up or down
Your Azure partner – An expert team of Microsoft Azure consultants
Our expert team of certified Microsoft Azure consultants have successfully delivered many Azure projects, and advised on many others.
Microsoft has recognised our expertise through our Microsoft technical certifications and customer experience with the Solutions Partner Designations for Azure and the Advanced Specialisation for Azure Virtual Desktop.
Read more about Azure on our blog
We regularly share our insights about Azure on our blog, which IT decision-makers will find useful:
Your Azure subscription, plus free expert advice
Azure resources are pay-as-you-go with no upfront commitment (although you have the option of getting a discount by making a commitment and buying Reserved Instances for some of the services).
Firstly you need an Azure subscription. This doesn’t cost anything, it’s simply the way to set up payment for when you do choose to use Azure resources.
If you sign up for an Azure subscription and then don’t deploy any Azure resources, you won’t get a bill.
You can add multiple Azure subscriptions to your tenant if you wish, and use them for different projects or customers for example.
Sign up for an Azure subscription with us and receive ongoing free expert Azure advice and guidance.
We help your in-house IT Team on your Azure journey – with everything from architecture through to deployment, migration, security, resilience, scaling and cost-optimisation advice.
We invoice you on a monthly basis for your Azure consumption and take payment by direct debit.
Our customer promise
If you sign up with Compete366, we guarantee that you’ll pay the same as when you subscribe directly with Microsoft, but with the added benefit of free ongoing expert Azure advice from our dedicated team of experienced technical consultants.
What our customers say
“It’s great to work with the Compete366 team, the team members are really knowledgeable, helpful and responsive. No question is too difficult for them. They have really helped us to manage our Azure costs and ensure we have the right environment. When we bring a new customer on-board we can scale up immediately via the Azure portal and quickly make environments available to our customers.”
“We also find that there’s never a heavy sales pitch from them – they are technically focused and recommend what’s right for us.”
“We had great support from the Compete366 AVD expert, who was really helpful, and guided me through options to tackle issues that arose.”
“The great thing about our AVD set up is that we have a custom set up for each project which Compete366 showed me how to do. And with the scalability and flexibility of AVD – we can meet clients’ expectations and get project users up and running more quickly.”
“We were immediately impressed with the advice that the Compete366 specialists in Azure Architecture were able to provide. This was all new to us and we really needed some external expertise that we could use to get our questions answered. The beauty of working with Compete366 is that we transferred our Azure consumption to them, and at the same time received all of their advice and guidance free of charge.”
“Working with Compete366 has been like extending our own team – they are extremely and easy to work with. Right from the outset, it was clear what was on offer – everything was presented to us in a straightforward and uncomplicated way. They also provided just the right level of challenge to our developers and saved us time and money by suggesting better ways to implement our infrastructure.”
“Compete366 were able to help us leverage some useful contacts in Microsoft. We really value the expert advice and guidance that they have offered us in setting up a highly scalable infrastructure. We are also setting in place a regular monthly meeting which will allow us to further refine our architecture and ensure we keep on track as our requirements grow and change.”
“I have been delighted with the migration, where my team worked very hard, supported by expert advice from Compete366, and achieved everything in the timescale we had set out. Compete 366 made sure that we didn’t make any expensive mistakes, and guided us through the process”
Read our case studies
Discover how we’ve successfully helped small and medium-sized businesses across the UK to make the most of Azure for their business.
Contact us to set up Azure in your organisation
Access our Azure expertise in one of two ways:
Contact our Microsoft specialists
Phone or email us to find out more – or book a free, no-obligation call with our technical consultants using the contact form.
“It’s great to work with the Compete366 team, the team members are really knowledgeable, helpful and responsive. No question is too difficult for them. They have really helped us to manage our Azure costs and ensure we have the right environment. When we bring a new customer on-board we can scale up immediately via the Azure portal and quickly make environments available to our customers.”
“We also find that there’s never a heavy sales pitch from them – they are technically focused and recommend what’s right for us.”
“We had great support from the Compete366 AVD expert, who was really helpful, and guided me through options to tackle issues that arose.”
“The great thing about our AVD set up is that we have a custom set up for each project which Compete366 showed me how to do. And with the scalability and flexibility of AVD – we can meet clients’ expectations and get project users up and running more quickly.”
“We were immediately impressed with the advice that the Compete366 specialists in Azure Architecture were able to provide. This was all new to us and we really needed some external expertise that we could use to get our questions answered. The beauty of working with Compete366 is that we transferred our Azure consumption to them, and at the same time received all of their advice and guidance free of charge.”
“Working with Compete366 has been like extending our own team – they are extremely and easy to work with. Right from the outset, it was clear what was on offer – everything was presented to us in a straightforward and uncomplicated way. They also provided just the right level of challenge to our developers and saved us time and money by suggesting better ways to implement our infrastructure.”
“Compete366 were able to help us leverage some useful contacts in Microsoft. We really value the expert advice and guidance that they have offered us in setting up a highly scalable infrastructure. We are also setting in place a regular monthly meeting which will allow us to further refine our architecture and ensure we keep on track as our requirements grow and change.”
“I have been delighted with the migration, where my team worked very hard, supported by expert advice from Compete366, and achieved everything in the timescale we had set out. Compete 366 made sure that we didn’t make any expensive mistakes, and guided us through the process”
