Demystifying the Azure Well-Architected Framework: Guiding Principles and Design Best Practices for Azure Workloads

The Azure Well-Architected Framework helps you deploy workloads in Azure that are aligned with Microsoft recommended best practices. It covers cost optimization, performance efficiency, operational excellence, reliability, and security, and provides practical guidance on incorporating them into your architecture. It starts with an introduction to the relevance of the framework and why it should form the baseline of your design decisions when deploying applications in Azure. It covers practices and processes to be followed to run applications smoothly, and how to build resilient and highly available applications in Azure with a sample configuration for monitoring. It also covers how to enable security to ensure confidentiality and integrity of workloads in Azure.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 29 May 2021
Publisher: APress

The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a comprehensive guide to designing and deploying cloud-based applications in Azure that aligns with Microsoft's recommended best practices. It covers five architecture elements: cost optimization, performance efficiency, operational excellence, reliability, and security, and provides practical guidance on incorporating them into your architecture. The book starts with an introduction to the relevance of the well-architected framework and why it should form the baseline of your design decisions when deploying applications in Azure. You will learn how customers can optimize the cost of deployment in Azure and understand all aspects of implementation. The book takes you through the practices and processes to be followed to run applications smoothly and you will understand the end-to-end process of design, deployment, and monitoring. You will go through paradigms for designing environments to meet different performance demands. The book covers how to build resilient and highly available applications in Azure with a sample configuration for monitoring. And you will learn how to enable security to ensure confidentiality and integrity of workloads in Azure. After reading this book, you will know the practical nuances of designing high-performing applications in the Microsoft cloud.

Solution architects and cloud teams in Azure will benefit from this book.

Weight: 244g
Dimension: 155 x 235 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781484271186
Edition number: 1st ed.