Part 2: Exploring the Well-Architected Framework Pillars and Their Principles

The Well-Architected Framework is a set of best practices and recommendations developed by Microsoft to optimize your cloud environment. The recommendations and optimizations are aligned to five pillars, namely, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency, Reliability (formerly known as High Availability), and Security. In this section, we will cover each of these pillars and their respective principles, design areas, recommendations, and best practices. The following chapters are part of this section:

• Chapter 3, Implementing Cost Optimization
• Chapter 4, Achieving Operational Excellence
• Chapter 5, Improving Applications with Performance Efficiency
• Chapter 6, Building Reliable Applications
• Chapter 7, Leveraging the Security Pillar