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Cloud Computing · Foundational

Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF)

Microsoft guidance for improving the quality of Azure workloads across five pillars.

Definition

The Azure Well-Architected Framework's five pillars are reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence and performance efficiency. It includes design principles, checklists, trade-off guidance, workload-specific guides, the Azure Well-Architected Review assessment and Azure Advisor recommendations aligned to the pillars.

Example

An architect uses the Well-Architected Review to evaluate a mission-critical app and finds missing zone redundancy.

Exam tip

Azure has five pillars (no sustainability pillar); the Cloud Adoption Framework addresses adoption, while WAF addresses individual workloads.

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