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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

Distinguishing between the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework

As we saw in the previous chapter, Microsoft is famous for its frameworks and acronyms. The Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is one of these frameworks and is a close relative of the WAF since they both are designed for Microsoft Azure. We have included this chapter in this book because people often get confused between the Cloud Adoption Framework and the WAF. Although they have different names, the connection between them and the appropriate usage often present a dilemma. Moving forward, we will use the acronym CAF for the Cloud Adoption Framework, just as we used WAF for Well-Architected Framework.

In Chapter 1, Planning Workloads with the Well-Architected Framework, we introduced the framework and then discussed its pillars and elements. We will take a similar approach for this chapter as well; we will start by introducing the CAF, followed by discussing its methodologies. In addition, we will compare...