Support application recovery from failures at any scale by architecting reliability into your application framework. In traditional app development, reliability meant purchasing layers of redundant, high-end hardware to prevent app failure completely. Because failure inevitably happens, minimizing the impact of a single component failing is essential. When you build for reliability in the cloud, you help ensure a highly available architecture as well as recovery from failures such as data loss, major downtime, or ransomware incidents.
In the Well-Architected Framework, operational excellence covers the operations processes that keep applications running in production. Deployments must be reliable and predictable. All systems must be observable because in a large application, logging into virtual machines to troubleshoot an issue or sift through log files is impractical and sometimes impossible. Monitoring and diagnostics provide insight into the system, so that you know when and where failures occur.
Well-architected workloads rest on a foundation of highly secure services and practices. Security is a fundamental pillar that helps organizations operate, innovate, and scale. As one of the most important aspects of any architecture, security provides confidentiality, integrity, and availability assurances against cyberattacks and abuse of data and systems. Protect workloads with the multilayered security of Azure—across physical datacenters, infrastructure, and operations—and stay ahead of evolving threats using AI. Plus, enlist a team of more than 8,500 global Microsoft cybersecurity experts to help safeguard your assets and data in Azure. This allows your SecOps teams to spend time focusing on what matters most to your business.
Start designing and developing well-architected cloud workloads using reference architectures and implementations. Build confidence among your peers that your choices will meet business goals with proven best practices and design patterns. With hundreds of reference architectures in the Azure Architecture Center, you’ll find design principles and GitHub-hosted code samples that serve your app’s purpose and unique context.
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