Managed Azure Optimisation & Support for Dynamics 365 in Australia
AZURE SOLUTIONS FOR DYNAMICS 365
Assisting Australian businesses to keep their Azure environment cost-efficient, secure, and resilient.
Dynamics 365 ERP and CRM systems rely on Azure as the foundation. While these systems follow a SaaS model for hosting, usually there are associated complementary applications, integrations, and analytics workloads that are deployed natively to Azure via an IaaS or PaaS model. Once these workloads are deployed, the challenge shifts from building to managing, making sure costs don’t drift, integrations stay reliable, and security posture keeps pace with Microsoft’s constant updates.
Walkerscott’s Managed Azure Optimisation & Support service in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne provides ongoing monitoring, tuning, and advisory capacity. We make sure your Azure environment continues to run at peak efficiency, with stability across cost, performance, and security, tailored for Dynamics 365 workloads.
Common challenges we see without ongoing management of your Azure environment
Running Dynamics 365 on Azure gives you a powerful foundation, but keeping that environment optimised is an ongoing effort for organisations in Australia.
Without continuous monitoring and tuning, IT teams often run into familiar issues that drain budgets, erode confidence, and increase risk. Ad-hoc fixes or reactive troubleshooting can’t keep pace with cost fluctuations, integration demands, and Microsoft’s frequent release changes. What’s needed is proactive management that stabilises spend, strengthens security, and ensures your Dynamics 365 workloads keep running smoothly.
Unexplained Azure invoice jumps leading to CFO scrutiny
Repeated integration failures or Dynamics 365 API throttling incidents
Security findings or audit pressure from executives or boards
Loss of key engineers, leaving gaps in Azure expertise
Release waves in Dynamics 365 introducing changes that break integrations or impact costs
Performance issues in Power BI or Fabric, leading to loss of user confidence
What you get with a Managed Azure Optimisation & Support service for Dynamics 365
Subscription management, cost control, and security tailored for Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP & CRM workloads.
Stable Costs
We maintain cost control by implementing budgets, alerts, reservations, and right-sizing strategies. Monthly reviews track unit economics by workload (e.g., cost per order, invoice, or case), ensuring cost savings aren’t one-off but sustained.
Reliable Integrations
Our team tunes and monitors Logic Apps, API Management, and Dataverse connections. We design event-driven integrations where possible, reduce unnecessary retries, and right-size services so Dynamics 365 integrations run efficiently without unexpected costs.
Tight Access Control
We keep your RBAC assignments clean, roll out Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for just-in-time elevation, and ensure service identities use Managed Identities and Key Vault instead of secrets. Regular access reviews maintain security hygiene over time.
Higher Secure Score with Context
We help you prioritise recommendations that matter most via Defender for Cloud. Our reviews include clear instructions, alongside hardening actions like private endpoints and baseline security controls.
A Governed Platform
We enforce consistent tags, budgets, and Azure Policy guardrails, reducing resource sprawl across environments. Infrastructure as Code (Bicep) keeps environments consistent, prevents drift, and supports disaster recovery scenarios.
Proven Recoverability
Backups alone aren’t enough, restores must be tested. If required, we can validate RPO/RTO objectives, conduct DR drills, and maintain infrastructure-as-code templates to rebuild environments quickly in the event of an incident.
Meaningful Telemetry
We configure monitoring that reduces noise and focuses on service-level objectives (SLOs). Cost-aware logging strategies ensure App Insights and Log Analytics deliver value without blowing the budget.
Dynamics 365 Expertise
Unlike generic Azure support providers, we understand Dynamics 365. We prepare for release wave changes, optimise Dataverse exports, assist with storage capacity via archiving for CE, F&O, or Business Central, and tune BI refreshes so users always have reliable dashboards.
AU/NZ Compliance, Data Residency & Governance
Our managed service includes practical guidance on data residency and retention, ensuring continuous alignment with required security and regulatory frameworks. We ensure your Azure environment is secure, compliant, and fit for the Australian or New Zealand market.
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FAQs About Managed Azure Services for Dynamics 365
Why does my Azure invoice jump up and down every month?
Azure bills often spike because of idle or oversized resources, chatty integrations (like Logic Apps polling Dynamics 365), or logging costs blowing out. Without constant monitoring, these issues go unnoticed until the invoice lands. Our managed service provides monthly cost reviews and alerts, so there are no surprises and optimisations stick over time.
We’ve got too many Owners in our Azure subscription, how risky is that really?
Having multiple users with “Owner” rights is a common shortcut, but it creates serious security and compliance risks. It makes audits messy and increases the chance of mistakes. We help organisations clean up RBAC, implement Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for just-in-time access, and keep permissions tidy with regular reviews.
How can I stop Logic Apps and API Management costs creeping up?
Integrations that connect Dynamics 365 to other systems can become expensive if they’re not tuned. Common culprits are polling instead of event-driven triggers, retry storms, or picking the wrong APIM tier. As part of our managed Azure service, we monitor and right-size these services so costs stay predictable.
Defender for Cloud gives me dozens of recommendations, which ones matter?
It’s easy to get “alert fatigue” with Defender for Cloud. Not all recommendations are equally urgent. We can help you prioritise based on impact to your Dynamics 365 workloads and overall secure score, giving you a short list of what actually reduces risk and improves resilience. Contact us about our managed Azure service.
Our Log Analytics bill is out of control, but we still need the logs. What can we do?
You don’t have to log everything forever. Most organisations benefit from tiered retention policies and smarter filtering, so you keep critical logs for compliance but don’t pay for noise. We can tune logging strategies in Azure, as part of our managed service, so you get the right level of observability without the Azure bill shock.
How do Dynamics 365 release waves impact our Azure setup?
Each release wave can introduce API changes, new limits, or altered integration behaviours. If nobody’s watching, this can break Logic Apps or cause unexpected consumption. With our managed service, we run release readiness checks so your Azure resources keep pace with Dynamics 365 updates.
Why Choose Walkerscott
Australian Microsoft Solutions Partner with specialised Dynamics 365 and Azure expertise
Experience delivering for medium-to-enterprise organisations in Australia and New Zealand
Proven accelerators like Klevr Integration Hub to reduce integration risk and speed delivery
Practical, results-first approach, we don’t just report on issues, we fix them