Preface

This book explores the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework, which is a comprehensive set of best practices and guidelines developed by Microsoft to optimize Azure workloads. By leveraging this framework, cloud architects and developers can build cost-effective, secure, reliable, resilient, and high-performing workloads in Microsoft Azure. The Well-Architected Framework aligns the principles and best practices to five interconnected pillars, which are: Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, and Security. In this book, we will take a consistent approach to evaluate each pillar of the Well-Architected Framework and learn how to optimize and assess Azure workloads. If you are an architect developing solutions in Microsoft Azure, the Well-Architected Framework is something valuable that you should be aware of. Since the Well-Architected Framework is fully managed by Microsoft, all new updates will be constantly amended in the framework so that your architecture reflects the latest practices, architecture patterns, and Azure features.