Managed Cloud Services
Unlock the full potential of Azure - with a cloud-shaped managed service from Shaping Cloud
From underpinning Business as Usual to accelerating digital transformation, our managed service is pure Azure – deep-dive cloud expertise to drive smart outputs and deliver better outcomes. And the best thing? It can be whatever you need it to be: choose the style, size and scope that fits with operational demands, fixes resourcing issues, or fires up strategic innovation. Let us help shape your cloud and support your future.
Can you manage?
For many mid-to-large SMBs and smaller enterprise organisations, Azure is now at the heart of operations. But managing it effectively takes more time, tools, and talent than most teams can spare.
The pressure is coming from all sides.
When you’ve already moved to Azure, the spotlight is brighter and the bills seem bigger. Costs keep climbing, but tangible returns feel slow to appear.
Without constant, high-calibre Azure expertise, even strong in-house teams drift into firefighting. Instead of pushing new features or innovation, they’re tied up reacting to incidents, delaying projects, and watching cloud value leak away.
Let’s change that.
“Shaping Cloud helped us reduce Azure waste by nearly 20% in year one, while improving our security posture and speeding up delivery cycles”
- NHS IT Lead
We design around your goals, team, and strategy - whether that’s stability, scale, or transformation. From short-term priorities to long-term change, we combine proactive and reactive support using robust, ITIL-compliant tools.
We flex across three key capability areas to match your IT maturity and operating model.
You don’t buy a package - you shape outcomes.
No bloat. No wasted spend. Just clear, measurable results.
Custom Azure support, shaped just for you
Why our cloud-shaped managed service delivers more
Azure Expertise On Tap
Application Development | Application Integration | Azure Virtual Desktop
Cloud Platform | Cloud Productivity | Cost Optimisation | Data and AI
DevOps | Hybrid Cloud | Modern Work (M365) | Security
How this works
Discovery session - Understand your goals, workloads, and delivery challenges.
Service shaping - We co-design a contract around your operational and strategic needs.
Kick-off and transition - Seamless onboarding, with governance, security, and continuity built in.
Run and evolve - You focus on business goals. We handle the Azure stack, and respond when and where you need us.
From first call to full value
Let’s build the right Azure support for you
We’ll help you shape the managed service that suits your goals, budget and resources, while focusing on unlocking more value from the cloud. And don’t assume this has to be a ‘big thing’ - it can start with the simplest support contract and grow with you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes and no. We’re Azure-first and Azure-specialised by design but have the expertise and experience to manage hybrid environments and even legacy on-prem estates. We can do whatever it takes to help you get the best out of cloud.
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Absolutely. The inherent flexibility and customisation of our managed service approach enables clients to build – and continuously refine – the exact support they need depending on priorities and circumstances.
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Both. We can stabilise today’s operations, especially around cost optimisation, or accelerate tomorrow’s innovation - all within one managed service.
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Yes. We’re here to support, not replace. Whether acting as an extension of your IT team or owning specific workloads, our services flex to fit.
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Yes. While we term this a managed service, it will always be primarily a partnership in our eyes and that means working harder to give you what you need. More, less, different, however your requirements flow, we’ll manage.
Whether you need rock-solid operations or rapid transformation, we’ll shape a support model that gets you there, keeps you moving and turns cost into value.