What is Microsoft Azure Cloud Development?
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's enterprise cloud platform, providing over 200 products and services covering compute, storage, networking, databases, AI, analytics, DevOps and security. Azure cloud development is the practice of designing, building, deploying and operating applications natively on the Azure platform using managed services such as Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Azure Service Bus and Azure DevOps. Cloud native Azure applications are elastic, observable, resilient and cost-efficient, replacing on-premises infrastructure with pay-per-use managed services that scale automatically.
Azure Services Assemblysoft Delivers
Assemblysoft designs and builds production systems across the full Azure service catalogue. Azure App Service hosts ASP.NET Core and Blazor Web Apps on fully managed, auto-scaling compute with built-in CI/CD via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions. Azure Functions and Azure Durable Functions deliver event-driven serverless logic triggered by HTTP, Service Bus, Event Grid, Cosmos DB change feed and Timer schedules. Azure Container Apps and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) host containerised microservices with KEDA-based auto-scaling and zero-downtime rolling deployments. Azure SQL Database and Cosmos DB provide relational and globally-distributed NoSQL data stores with built-in geo-replication and automatic failover. Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake and Azure File Storage address structured and unstructured data needs. Azure Active Directory B2C and Entra External ID handle customer identity and multi-tenant authentication. Azure Key Vault, Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel address secrets management and security posture. Azure Monitor, Application Insights and OpenTelemetry provide end-to-end distributed tracing and alerting. .NET Aspire provides the orchestration, service discovery and NuGet integration layer for cloud-native .NET 10 apps.
Azure Migration and Modernisation
Many organisations run legacy workloads on on-premises servers or outdated cloud configurations that are expensive, fragile and difficult to scale. Assemblysoft delivers Azure migration engagements that move these workloads to modern managed Azure services using the Azure Well-Architected Framework as a guide. Typical migration patterns include lift-and-shift to Azure Virtual Machines, re-platforming to Azure App Service or Container Apps, re-architecting to microservices on AKS, and refactoring monolithic databases to Azure SQL Hyperscale or Cosmos DB. Our Azure cost optimisation service has reduced monthly Azure spend for clients by up to 50% through right-sizing, reserved instance planning, autoscale policies and Bicep-driven infrastructure as code.
Azure DevOps and CI/CD
Assemblysoft implements end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions. Every deployment includes automated build, unit test, integration test, security scanning and infrastructure provisioning stages. Infrastructure is defined as code using Bicep and Terraform, enabling repeatable environment creation and drift detection. Azure Container Registry stores and signs container images. Deployment slots on Azure App Service enable zero-downtime blue/green releases.
Assemblysoft — Azure Development Company, United Kingdom
Assemblysoft is a UK Microsoft Partner with over 15 years of Azure delivery experience. The team has designed and built production Azure platforms for clients in financial services (Barclays Investment Bank), pharmaceutical compliance, medical device software, industrial manufacturing and multi-tenant SaaS. Services include greenfield Azure architecture, legacy migration, Azure cost review, ongoing managed support and Azure DevOps pipeline implementation. All engagements are delivered by UK-based engineers with Microsoft certifications in Azure Solutions Architecture, Azure DevOps and Azure AI.
- Primary platform
- Microsoft Azure
- Compute services
- Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, AKS, Azure VMs
- Data services
- Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake, Redis Cache
- DevOps
- Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Bicep, Terraform, Azure Container Registry
- AI / ML
- Azure OpenAI, Semantic Kernel, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning
- Security
- Azure Key Vault, Entra ID, Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel
- Framework
- .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, Blazor Web App, .NET Aspire
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Partner status
- Microsoft Partner
- Industries
- Finance, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Manufacturing, SaaS, Professional Services
- Contact intent
- hire Azure developer UK, Azure development company, Azure migration service UK, cloud native .NET Azure, Azure cost optimisation UK