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

Chapter 1: Azure Well-Architected framework: The what and why?

Chapter Goal: This chapter will introduce readers to the relevance of well-architected framework and why it should form the baseline of all their design decisions while deploying applications in Azure

No of pages: 10

Sub -Topics

1. Digital transformation through Azure

2. Why do you need a framework for architecture excellence?

3. What is Azure Well architected framework?

4. The five pillars of Azure well architected framework

5. Practical annotations

Chapter 2: Cost optimization: Return on your cloud investment

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on how customers can optimize cost of deployments in Azure, covering practical aspects of implementation

No of pages: 30

Sub - Topics

1. How to design for optimal ROI

2. Tools and services for optimizing cost

3. Understand the tradeoffs

4. Configure reports for visibility

Chapter 3: Operational excellence: Keep the lights on

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on framework, practices and processes to be followed to ensure that applications run without disruption. It will cover end to end processes starting from the design, deployment and ongoing monitoring

No of pages:30

Sub - Topics:

1. Start with the application design

2. Adopt "Everything as code"

3. Enable peak performance for deployment ecosystem

4. Always "Shift Left" for testing

5. Integrated monitoring

Chapter 4: Performance efficiency: Meet the demand spikes

Chapter Goal: This chapter will explore the paradigms for designing environments to meet varying performance demands. The practical considerations of scalability for the same will be explained

No of pages: 30

Sub - Topics:

1. Design principles for performance efficiency

2. Make best use of cloud scalability

3. Identify bottlenecks through testing

4. Monitoring metrics for performance

Chapter 5: Reliability: Build resilient applications in the cloud

Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on considerations for building resilient and highly available applications in Azure, with sample configuration for monitoring

No of pages: 30

Sub - Topics:

1. Best practices for building resilient applications

2. Popular adoption strategies

3. How to meet the defined SLAs

4. Testing and monitoring

Chapter 6: Security: Protect your workloads in the cloud
Chapter Goal: This chapter will cover the practical aspects of enabling security to ensure confidentiality and integrity of workloads in Azure

No of pages: 30

Sub - Topics:

1. Understanding threat vectors in the cloud

2. Adaptable security for new world threats

3. Secure compute, storage, network and code

4. Identity is the new security perimeter

Author: Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan
Publisher: Apress
Published: 06/12/2021
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.33d
ISBN13: 9781484271186
ISBN10: 1484271181
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Programming | Microsoft

About the Author

Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan has more than 15 years of experience in data center management, server administration, virtualization, and cloud technologies. She is currently working as Technical Delivery Manager focusing on Azure infrastructure, automation, DevOps, serverless, and related technologies. She is a tech enthusiast and loves writing about the latest developments in IT infrastructure and cloud computing on her blog (thetechnologychronicle).