01 — Bundled, not siloed
One SOW. Four disciplines.
AI integration, DevOps, security, and Microsoft services delivered by one accountable partner — never four spreadsheets and a finger-pointing exercise.
Boutique Cloud Partner · United States · Est. 2026
We don't justdeploy Microsoft.We make it work for you.
We help US small and mid-sized businesses run a modern, secure, AI-augmented Microsoft cloud — without hiring a 12-person internal IT team. Productized engagements. Public pricing. Senior engineers, every time.
- MICROSOFT PARTNER NETWORK
- SOC 2 / NYDFS / HIPAA READY
- CMMC RP IN PROGRESS · THE CYBER AB
- FIXED-FEE · FIXED-TIMELINE
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SECURITY · MICROSOFT
M365 Quick-Start Hardening
Fixed-fee · 2 weeks · Remote
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- MFA + Conditional Access tightened to CIS baseline
- DLP, sensitivity labels, admin tier model
- Top-10 risk findings, prioritized 90-day roadmap
- Executive readout + handover runbook
- 25YRS
- Senior partner pedigree FinTech & regulated EA
- 9FRMWKS
- Compliance frameworks mapped in our M365 workbook
- 2WKS
- Average sprint length for productized hardening
- 60%
- Health Checks that convert into a longer engagement
We work to: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS 4.0, HIPAA, GDPR, CIS Benchmarks, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, NIST 800-53, DORA, CSA CCM.
The Avalon difference
Three commitments. Every engagement.
Most SMBs juggle a freelancer for AI, an MSP for security, a contractor for DevOps, and a Microsoft reseller for licensing — four vendors blaming each other when something breaks. We're built to replace all four.
02 — Productized, not bespoke
Real prices. Real timelines.
Top-of-funnel offers have fixed fees and visible scopes. Buyers self-qualify before the first call. We discount via scope reduction, never rate erosion.
03 — Microsoft-native, audit-credible
The stack regulated buyers trust.
We earn Microsoft Solutions Partner designations across Modern Work, Security, and Infrastructure. And there's a 25-year EA on the cap table when an auditor walks in.
Service Lines
Four disciplines, one partner.
Each line stands alone — but the value compounds. A typical 18-month customer journey: M365 hardening → Sentinel/SOC 2 → DevOps retainer → AI rollout. Average revenue per customer triples without a new logo.
Productized Packages
Real prices. No “let’s scope it.”
A small set of fixed-fee, fixed-scope offers that solve the pains we hear most often. Public pricing means you self-qualify before the first call.
Free resource · Lead magnet
The Microsoft 365 Security Hardening Workbook for a 35-user E5 tenant.
The exact methodology we use on M365 hardening engagements — nine workstreams, an evidence register, a risk and remediation tracker, and a deliverables checklist mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, CIS, and DORA. Steal the framework. Run the engagement yourself, or talk to us about doing it together.
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Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Specialist Workbook
- 1.Engagement Profile
- 2.Identity
- 3.Endpoint & BYOD
- 4.Data Protection
- 5.Monitoring
- 6.Apps & Integrations
- 7.Evidence Register
- 8.Risk & Remediation Tracker
- 9.Deliverables Checklist
About Avalon
Two founders. One opinionated philosophy.
Avalon Web Services was founded by two complementary partners — a senior Enterprise Architect with 25 years inside a Tier-1 bank in Saudi Arabia (recently relocated to the US), and a modern AI / DevOps / Security / Microsoft specialist already running a profitable consulting practice. We combine the design judgment of a Tier-1 regulated bank with the speed and price of a boutique.
Our philosophy is simple: SMBs deserve enterprise-grade outcomes — without the enterprise price tag, the enterprise timeline, or the enterprise PowerPoint deck.
Arif Ali Mughal
CO-FOUNDER & CEO · ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE & FINTECH
25 years inside one of the GCC's most heavily supervised Tier-1 banks in Saudi Arabia — Network Engineer to Enterprise Architecture Manager; cloud-migration program featured by Google Cloud as a customer-success case study. Author of Cybersecurity for Financial Institutions; CISSP · CCSP · CISM · CISA · CCISO · SC-100 · dual CCIE. Leads US client relationships and Avalon's Regulated FinTech vertical.
Waleed Zafar
CO-FOUNDER & CTO · CLOUD, AI & DEVSECOPS
Chief Technology Officer; leads Cloud, AI, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Hetzner, and VMware private cloud. Azure DevSecOps and platform lead for a US healthcare-analytics SaaS; owns Avalon's delivery methodology and the platform layer behind CMMC, FedRAMP, and StateRAMP engagements.
Start here
Tell us what's keeping you up at night.
Most engagements start with a Cloud Health Check — one week, full audit, top-10 findings, 90-day roadmap. About 60% of these convert into a longer engagement. Either way, you walk away with a plan.