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Azure Well-Architected Checklist
Build secure, resilient and cost-efficient Azure workloads
This checklist is a practical playbook for designing and reviewing workloads against the Azure Well-Architected Framework baseline. Use the practical tips and trade-offs to prioritise what to improve for each workload. Reduce risks, improve performance, and keep cloud spend under control as you scale.
What you’ll learn:
- Practical tips and real trade-offs across the five pillars you can apply directly in your own Azure environment.
- A structured way to review workloads end-to-end and prioritise the highest-impact improvements.
- Strategies and patterns for redundancy, failover, and recovery to improve reliability.
- Operational checks for IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks.
- Improve performance with checks for scaling, caching, data, and delivery, without unnecessary spend or operational toil.
- Ways to control cloud spend and achieve more cost savings while maintaining security, reliability, and performance.
Who this is for:
- Architects designing and reviewing Azure workload decisions
- CTOs and engineering leaders accountable for cloud outcomes
- Product owners tired of “cloud chaos” slowing delivery
- Platform and DevOps engineers owning landing zones and pipelines
- Tech leads setting standards for delivery and operations
- Security leads and admins who shape access and monitoring controls
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