Chapter 1: Azure Well-Architected framework: The what and why? Chapter Goal: This chapter will introduce readers to the relevance of well-architected framework and why it should form the baseline of all their design decisions while deploying applications in Azure
No of pages: 10
Sub -Topics
1. Digital transformation through Azure
2. Why do you need a framework for architecture excellence?
3. What is Azure Well architected framework?
4. The five pillars of Azure well architected framework
5. Practical annotations
Chapter 2: Cost optimization: Return on your cloud investment Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on how customers can optimize cost of deployments in Azure, covering practical aspects of implementation
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics
1. How to design for optimal ROI
2. Tools and services for optimizing cost
3. Understand the tradeoffs 4. Configure reports for visibility
Chapter 3: Operational excellence: Keep the lights on Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on framework, practices and processes to be followed to ensure that applications run without disruption. It will cover end to end processes starting from the design, deployment and ongoing monitoring
No of pages:30
Sub - Topics:
1. Start with the application design
2. Adopt "Everything as code"
3. Enable peak performance for deployment ecosystem
4. Always "Shift Left" for testing
5. Integrated monitoring
Chapter 4: Performance efficiency: Meet the demand spikes
Chapter Goal: This chapter will explore the paradigms for designing environments to meet varying performance demands. The practical considerations of scalability for the same will be explained
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Design principles for performance efficiency
2. Make best use of cloud scalability
3. Identify bottlenecks through testing 4. Monitoring metrics for performance
Chapter 5: Reliability: Build resilient applications in the cloud
Chapter Goal: This chapter will focus on considerations for building resilient and highly available applications in Azure, with sample configuration for monitoring
No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Best practices for building resilient applications
2. Popular adoption strategies
3. How to meet the defined SLAs
4. Testing and monitoring
Chapter 6: Security: Protect your workloads in the cloud
Chapter Goal: This chapter will cover the practical aspects of enabling security to ensure confidentiality and integrity of workloads in Azure No of pages: 30
Sub - Topics:
1. Understanding threat vectors in the cloud
2. Adaptable security for new world threats 3. Secure compute, storage, network and code
4. Identity is the new security perimeter
About the Author:
Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan has more than 15 years of experience in data center management, server administration, virtualization, and cloud technologies. She is currently working as Technical Delivery Manager focusing on Azure infrastructure, automation, DevOps, serverless, and related technologies. She is a tech enthusiast and loves writing about the latest developments in IT infrastructure and cloud computing on her blog (thetechnologychronicle).
