Microsoft Azure Well-Architected pillars
Incorporating these pillars helps produce a high quality, stable, and efficient cloud architecture:
Reliability
In a cloud environment you scale out rather than buying higher-end hardware to scale up. While it’s always desirable to prevent all failure, focus your efforts in minimizing the effects of a single failing component.
Cost Optimisation
An effective architecture achieves business goals and ROI requirements while keeping costs within the allocated budget.
Security
Security is one of the most important aspects of any architecture. It provides confidentiality, integrity, and availability assurances against deliberate attacks and abuse of your valuable data and systems. Losing these assurances can negatively impact your business operations and revenue, as well as your organisation’s reputation in the marketplace.
Performance efficiency
Prioritise scalability as you design and implement phases. Scalability leads to lower maintenance costs, better user experience, and higher agility.
Operational Excellence
To ensure that your application is running effectively over time, consider multiple perspectives, from both an application and infrastructure angles. Your strategy must include the processes that you implement so that your users are getting the right experience.