Kyndryl Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) for Azure

Enterprises accelerating cloud transformation often struggle with inconsistent governance, rising costs, fragmented operating models, and uneven adoption across teams. The Kyndryl Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) for Azure helps organizations establish a unified, scalable cloud operating model aligned to Microsoft Azure and the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).

The CCoE brings together governance, architecture, FinOps, security, and platform engineering expertise to deliver predictable outcomes, improved efficiency, and stronger business value on Azure.

Customer Challenges

• Escalating cloud costs with limited financial accountability
• Fragmented ways of working across business units and subscriptions
• Limited visibility into security, compliance, and platform health
• Slow delivery caused by inconsistent architecture standards and manual processes
• Difficulty demonstrating cloud value to executive stakeholders

Solution Overview

The Kyndryl CCoE for Azure helps enterprises establish, operationalize, and mature their cloud operating model by standardizing governance, architecture, security controls, FinOps practices, and platform engineering patterns aligned to Azure landing zone best practices.

Our approach balances people, process, and technology to create a durable, scalable foundation for cloud transformation.

Key Capabilities

• Azure-aligned CCoE design including governance framework, target operating model, and blueprints
• FinOps operating model with cost allocation, policy as code, and optimization guardrails
• Security and compliance controls using Azure Policy and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Platform engineering guidance aligned to Azure landing zones and CI/CD best practices
• Skills and adoption enablement to embed new ways of working across teams
• Resource optimization insights using Azure-native recommendations and Kyndryl IP

Key Benefits

• Cost optimization: Reduce ungoverned cloud spend by 25–30% using FinOps best practices aligned with Microsoft and the Kyndryl CCoE model
• Faster provisioning: Improve environment provisioning speed by 30–50% through standardized, CCoE-enabled workflows
• Stronger compliance: Increase security and compliance coverage through automated guardrails
• Reduced risk: Lower operational risk through consistent, scalable architecture and delivery patterns
• Improved transparency: Clearly demonstrate cloud value and ROI to executive stakeholders

Customer Outcome

Sovereign Cloud Provider (Middle East): Delivered a cloud transformation office with standardized architectural governance, Azure policy baselines, and repeatable deployment patterns, enabling rapid migration at scale and improved operational efficiency.

Why Kyndryl and Microsoft

Kyndryl is one of the largest Azure-focused services providers globally, with deep experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud operating models, FinOps practices, security frameworks, and platform engineering.

The Kyndryl CCoE for Azure is coaligned with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure landing zone patterns, and best practices, ensuring a proven, Microsoft-aligned approach that accelerates ROI and long-term value.

Recommended Next Steps

Schedule a Cloud Operating Model and CCoE Discovery Workshop with a Kyndryl CCoE consultant.

• Establish a baseline understanding of the current Azure platform and roadmap
• Co-develop a high-level CCoE design to enable a formal proposal

Terms, conditions, duration, and pricing are custom to each engagement. Please contact us to discuss a solution that meets your business needs. Offer availability may be limited in some countries.

Kyndryl and Microsoft: Our Partnership