The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of quality-driven tenets, architectural decision points, and review tools intended to help solution architects build a technical foundation for their workloads.
Azure Well-Architected Framework
Design workloads that achieve business value over time.
As solution architects, you want to build reliable, secure, and performant workloads that maximize the value of investment in Azure infrastructure. Start with the Pillars, and align your design choices with the principles. Then, build a strong foundation for your workload based on technical design areas. Finally, use review tools to assess your readiness in deploying to production.
Featured update - Azure App Service (Web Apps)
Explore the Azure App Service guide:
- Azure App Service (Web Apps) is a platform as a service (PaaS) compute solution that you can use to host your workload on the Azure platform.
- The fully managed service abstracts the underlying compute and offloads to the platform the responsibility of building, deploying, and scaling.
- Find checklists that help you assess architectural concerns and design strategies that align with the Well-Architected Framework.
- Consider recommendations and tradeoffs as you design your workload on Azure App Service.
Pillars
Ensures that the workload meets the uptime and recovery targets by building redundancy and resiliency at scale.
Protect the workload from attacks by maintaining confidentiality and data integrity.
Adopt an optimization mindset by at organizational, architectural, and tactical levels to keep your spending within budget.
Reduce issues in production by building holistic observability and automated systems.
Adjust to changes in demands placed on the workload by through horizontal scaling and testing changes before deploying to production.
Workloads
Host Oracle workloads on Azure, which includes not only Oracle Databases, but also applications such as Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards.
Evaluate, design, and optimize an SAP workload from premigration to operations.
Design and operationalize workloads that are expected to be always available and resilient to failures.
Plan your path forward, improve your sustainability posture, and create new business value while reducing your operational footprint.
Resolve architectural challenges for designing, building, and operating IoT solutions according to your requirements and constraints.
Relocate legacy application virtual machines to Azure VMware Solution as a staging area for the first phase of your migration and modernization strategy.
Run Windows desktops and applications on Azure from any device and location.
See example workloads that apply Well-Architected tenets in the Azure Architecture Center
