Azure Frameworks

Overview:

Azure offers a range of frameworks to help organizations design, adopt, manage, and optimize their cloud solutions. These frameworks provide best practices and guidelines to ensure workloads are secure, reliable, efficient, and cost-effective. Below are key Azure frameworks to help you create a well-architected cloud environment:

Framework List

1. Azure Well-Architected Framework

The Azure Well-Architected Framework provides a set of guiding tenets to improve the quality of a workload. It consists of five pillars:

  • Cost Optimization: Managing costs to maximize the value delivered.

  • Operational Excellence: Operations processes that keep a system running in production.

  • Performance Efficiency: Efficient use of computing resources to meet requirements.

  • Reliability: Ability of a system to recover from failures and continue to function.

  • Security: Protecting applications and data from threats.

2. Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

This framework provides comprehensive guidance for adopting the cloud, including:

  • Strategy: Defining business justification and expected outcomes.

  • Plan: Aligning actionable adoption plans to business outcomes.

  • Ready: Preparing the cloud environment for the planned changes.

  • Adopt: Implementing the planned changes.

  • Govern: Establishing policies and processes to manage cloud resources.

  • Manage: Managing operations to optimize the cloud environment.

3. Azure Security Benchmark

This is a collection of high-impact security recommendations you can use to help secure the services you use in Azure. It includes:

  • Identity Management: Best practices for managing identities.

  • Network Security: Recommendations for securing network infrastructure.

  • Data Protection: Guidelines for protecting data at rest and in transit.

  • Asset Management: Managing your cloud resources effectively.

  • Incident Response: Preparing for and responding to security incidents.

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