

This is aimed at helping organizations to make informed decisions that are aligned with best practice recommendations and platform roadmaps, juxtaposed with potential trade-offs associated with deviation.įigure 1 - This conceptual architecture illustrates how different reliability tiers and underlying business requirements influence the target architecture.Ģ. Architectural Guidelines: a design methodology to guide application teams through the architectural process of building a mission-critical application on the Microsoft Cloud.More specifically, the project contains everything required to understand and implement an 'always on' application on Azure, and is comprised of: It leverages lessons from numerous customer applications and first-party solutions, and applies Well-Architected best practices to provide actionable and authoritative guidance for building and operating a highly reliable solutions on Azure at-scale.

Microsoft's guidance strives to address the challenges of building mission-critical applications by providing organizations with a prescriptive architectural approach for the Microsoft Cloud. With this in mind, we have developed an opensource project, which we are pleased to announce is now publicly available on GitHub as a preview. “Tell us what good looks like” is therefore a common request, with organizations seeking opinionated guidance and reference deployments to establish technical confidence and accelerate moving their mission-critical workloads to the Microsoft Cloud. However, building mission-critical solutions that are always available and operational remains a challenge that requires extensive platform knowledge and engineering rigor to overcome. Microsoft Azure makes it easy to deploy and manage cloud solutions.
