Azure Architecture Center

  • Azure Application Architecture Guide

    Azure Application Architecture Guide

    A guide to designing scalable, resilient, and highly available applications, based on proven practices that we have learned from customer engagements.

  • Azure Reference Architectures

    Reference Architectures

    A set of recommended architectures for Azure. Each architecture includes best practices, prescriptive steps, and a deployable solution.

  • Cloud Design Patterns

    Cloud Design Patterns

    Design patterns for developers and solution architects. Each pattern describes a problem, a pattern that addresses the problem, and an example based on Azure.

  • Best Practices

    Best Practices for Cloud Applications

    Best practices for cloud applications, covering aspects such as auto-scaling, caching, data partitioning, API design, and others.

  • Performance antipatterns

    Performance antipatterns

    How to detect and fix some common causes of performance and scalability problems in cloud applications.

  • Design Review Checklists

    Design Review Checklists

    Checklists to assist developers and solution architects during the design process.

  • Azure for AWS Professionals

    Azure for AWS Professionals

    Leverage your AWS experiences in Microsoft Azure.

  • Designing for Resiliency

    Designing for Resiliency

    Learn how to design resilient applications for Azure.

  • Identity Management for Multitenant Applications

    Identity Management for Multitenant Applications

    Understand the best practices for multitenancy, when using Azure AD for identity management.

  • Run Elasticsearch on Azure

    Run Elasticsearch on Azure

    Learn how to deploy, manage, and tune an Elasticsearch cluster on Azure.

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    Azure Customer Advisory Team

    The AzureCAT team's blog

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    SQL Server Customer Advisory Team

    The SQLCAT team's blog

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