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Optimizing Microsoft Azure Workloads

By : Rithin Skaria
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Optimizing Microsoft Azure Workloads

By: Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

It’s easy to learn and deploy resources in Microsoft Azure, without worrying about resource optimization. However, for production or mission critical workloads, it’s crucial that you follow best practices for resource deployment to attain security, reliability, operational excellence and performance. Apart from these aspects, you need to account for cost considerations, as it’s the leading reason for almost every organization’s cloud transformation. In this book, you’ll learn to leverage Microsoft Well-Architected Framework to optimize your workloads in Azure. This Framework is a set of recommended practices developed by Microsoft based on five aligned pillars; cost optimization, performance, reliability, operational excellence, and security. You’ll explore each of these pillars and discover how to perform an assessment to determine the quality of your existing workloads. Through the book, you’ll uncover different design patterns and procedures related to each of the Well-Architected Framework pillars. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to collect and assess data from an Azure environment and perform the necessary upturn of your Azure workloads.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1: Well-Architected Framework Fundamentals
4
Part 2: Exploring the Well-Architected Framework Pillars and Their Principles
10
Part 3: Assessment and Recommendations

Part 1: Well-Architected Framework Fundamentals

Microsoft has different frameworks designed for every stage of your cloud transformation journey. This section comprises two chapters. In the first chapter, we will go through the fundamentals of the Well-Architected Framework, and in the second chapter, we will cover the differences between the Well-Architected Framework and the Cloud Adoption Framework. Understanding the differences between the frameworks will help you make the right design decisions on your cloud transformation journey. This part contains the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Planning Workloads with the Well-Architected Framework
  • Chapter 2, Distinguishing between the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework