What is the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework?
The Azure WAF is a guiding principle across five pillars of architectural excellence that produces high-quality and efficient architecture for your workload in Azure. These pillars are as follows:
- Reliability
- Security
- Cost Optimization
- Operational Excellence
- Performance Efficiency
Since the FinOps team is focused on managing the cloud costs and maximizing the value delivered to the business, we will focus on the Cost Optimization pillar of WAF. WAF is supported by six elements – Well-Architected Review, Azure Advisor, Documentation, Partner Support and Service Offer, Reference Architectures, and Design Principles. Azure Well-Architected Review examines your workload through the lens of cost management. WAF reviews also help bring visibility to engineering, the product and DevOps teams’ knowledge, and the ability and priorities around considering the cost for every decision they make for the cloud infrastructure. Let’s assemble the team and have them take the WAF Cost Optimization assessment.
