Azure well architected
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Expert guidance for designing, assessing, and optimizing Azure workloads using Azure Well Architected. Covers design review checklists, recommendations, design principles, tradeoffs, service guides, workload patterns, and assessment questions. Use when designing AI, HPC, SaaS, AVD, or mission-critical Azure workloads with WAF-aligned guidance, and other Azure Well Architected related development tasks.
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Azure Well Architected Skill
This skill provides expert guidance for designing, assessing, and optimizing Azure workloads using Azure Well Architected. Covers design review checklists, recommendations, design principles, tradeoffs, service guides, workload patterns, and assessment questions. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.
How to Use This Skill
IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g.,
L35-L120), useread_filewith the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g.,[security.md](security.md)), useread_fileon the linked reference file
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This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
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fetch_webpagewith query stringfrom=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.
Category Index
| Category | Lines | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Design Review Checklists | L35-L43 | Checklists to review Azure workloads for cost, operations, performance, reliability, and security best practices and identify gaps against Well-Architected guidance. |
| Recommendations | L44-L117 | Guidance on cost optimization, operations, performance, reliability, security, and sustainability best practices for architecting and running Azure workloads. |
| Design Principles | L118-L132 | Design patterns and best practices for cost, reliability, security, performance, operations, sustainability, and mission-critical design across AI, SaaS, AVD, HPC, and other Azure workloads. |
| Tradeoffs | L133-L142 | Guidance on weighing cost, reliability, performance, security, and operations tradeoffs in Azure architectures, including regions/AZ choices and cross-pillar design decisions. |
| Service Guides | L143-L178 | End-to-end Well-Architected (WAF) guidance for specific Azure services—covering design, networking, security/IAM, monitoring, BCDR, performance, and cost optimization patterns. |
| Workload Patterns | L179-L223 | Design patterns, reference architectures, and end-to-end guidance for AI, HPC, mission-critical, SaaS, and sustainable workloads on Azure, including platforms, data, ops, security, and governance. |
| Assessment Questions | L224-L235 | Guided assessments and maturity models to evaluate AI, SaaS, AVD, AVS, and other Azure workloads against WAF pillars: cost, reliability, security, performance, and operations. |
Design Review Checklists
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Use Cost Optimization design review checklist for Azure | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/cost-optimization/checklist |
| Use operational excellence design review checklist | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/operational-excellence/checklist |
| Use performance efficiency design review checklist | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/performance-efficiency/checklist |
| Use reliability design checklist for Azure workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/reliability/checklist |
| Use the Security design review checklist for workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/security/checklist |
Recommendations
Design Principles
Tradeoffs
| Topic | URL |
|---|---|
| Analyze cost optimization tradeoffs across WAF pillars | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/cost-optimization/tradeoffs |
| Balance regions and availability zones for reliability and cost | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/design-guides/regions-availability-zones |
| Evaluate operational excellence tradeoffs in Azure workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/operational-excellence/tradeoffs |
| Analyze performance efficiency tradeoffs across WAF pillars | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/performance-efficiency/tradeoffs |
| Analyze reliability tradeoffs across WAF pillars | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/reliability/tradeoffs |
| Evaluate security tradeoffs in Azure architectures | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/security/tradeoffs |