With my extensive experience on Microsoft platform, I plan to dive deep into Azure, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Teams, and more on AWS, Google Cloud etc. in future articles. However, for now, I’m focusing on one crucial topic-How to Build an Azure Architecture. Let’s get started & enjoy reading!
Leverage Azure Well-Architected Framework – This Framework is a powerful resource that provides best practices and guidance across five key pillars i.e., Cost Optimization – Identify opportunities to reduce waste and maximize value of your investment – Operational Excellence – Ensure efficient and reliable operations, Performance Efficiency – Optimize resources to meet performance demands. Reliability – Design systems that can recover from failures and maintain availability. Security – Safeguard your infrastructure and data. Adhering to these principles, & you can build a resilient/efficient architecture
Clearly Define Objectives of your Architecture Design – Understand goals of your cloud deployment. i.e., is it Enhance scalability, improve disaster recovery, reduce operational costs, or enable faster innovation? This will help you in making smart architectural decisions, & will ensure alignment with business needs
Choose Right Services and Resources- Implement Cost Management Practices
Azure offers a vast array of services such as, VMs and Kubernetes, to serverless computing & databases. Choosing a right combination depends on your workload requirements. Consider these important services such as Scalability – services e.g. Azure App Services & Azure Functions for auto-scaling capabilities. Storage – Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake, or managed databases i.e., Azure SQL based on data volume and access patterns. Networking – Design secure networks using Azure Virtual Network (VNet) & Azure ExpressRoute. Design for resilience and high availability – Cost management is critical to avoid overspending
Plan for Future Growth – Use microservices architecture for easier scaling and iterative development. Leverage Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for streamlined deployment pipelines