Azure Well Architected Framework provides a set of guidelines around how to design a workload. This framework concerns itself with architecture and not implementation.

It consists of:

• Pillars | Five pillars of Azure well architected framework
  • Each pillar has set of design principles
  • Next there are checklists.
  • Next Tradeoffs
  • Next Recommendations (which are just patterns)
• Workloads
• Service Guides (Azure specific)

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