Azure Well-Architected Framework: 3-Day Assessment

The Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) is a set of guiding tenets that can be used to improve the quality of a workload or application. The framework consists of five pillars of architecture excellence: Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, and Security. Incorporating these pillars helps produce high-quality, stable, and efficient cloud architectures.

During the assessment, we will go through these five pillars. Below you can find a short description for each pillar.

Cost Optimization: Avoid unneeded costs and use the Azure resources in an optimal way.

Operational Excellence: Ensure that monitoring is available on Azure resources and your application. Foresee procedures to resolve issues that might arise and automate as much as possible to ensure reliability and predictability.

Performance Efficiency: Ensure that your application can scale up and down to meet the demand and identify potential bottlenecks. Use the available Azure features to configure the scaling or use high-level (PaaS, Serverless) services to offload the scaling to Azure.

Reliability: Ensure that your application can recover from failures and continue to function.

Security: Ensure that all parts of the system are set up in a secure way. Use identity management to limit user access to subscriptions and resource groups. Verify that your applications are free of any vulnerabilities. Use encryption in transit and at rest to protect sensitive data.