What is Azure architecture?
Microsoft Azure offers a variety of services and tools for building and deploying, and managing cloud applications. Azure is one of the leading cloud service providers.
Azure architecture encompasses the concepts and components that create a scalable, reliable, and secure cloud application. It follows a distributed model in which the resources are deployed across various data centers and regions worldwide.
Azure well-architected framework
Azure's well-architected framework is a set of guidelines that can be used to enhance workload quality. This framework includes the pillars as stated in the figure.
This framework provides businesses with a structured approach to evaluate and improve the Azure architecture for their application. Additionally, it helps ensure that the five pillars are met.
Azure architecture best practices
For your cloud application to scale as your company grows, it is crucial to ensure that it is architected well. The following are some of the best practices to follow while architecting your application:
Design for resilience: Use Azure's availability service to ensure high availability and minimize downtime.
Secure: Use identity management and other security features to ensure your application is secure.
Monitor: Use sensors or devices to monitor your data and gain insights into the performance and health of your application.
Backup and recover: Use proper backup and disaster recovery strategies to protect your data in case of an unfortunate event.
Document: Document Azure deployments, configurations, and other processes is essential to ensure consistency.
Azure architecture diagram
The architecture diagram illustrates the deployment and development of a cloud application. It allows you to document a cloud architecture and view updates that are to be made.
Example
The following diagram represents an identity architecture displaying an Azure active directory managing the identity and access to data and resources.
