The 5 Pillars of Azure Well-Architected Framework
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Have you heard of the Azure Well-Architected Framework? You should be if you’re interested in architecting cloud workloads that successfully power your business-critical solutions.
The pillars are: Reliability, Security, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency. These pillars contain best practices recommended by Azure and are designed to ensure you build and manage an efficient Azure infrastructure. nOps helps you comply with these best practices and help you stay well-aligned into the future.

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What is Azure Well-
Architected?
Azure has established guiding tenets for orchestrating scalable cloud systems. The result is the Azure Well-Architected Framework based on five pillars: Reliability, Security, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency.
The Azure Well-Architected Framework Review lays down an actionable assessment structure Solution Architects can use to assess compliance with the five pillars.
Why is this important to your business? A Well-Architected infrastructure helps you build highly available, secure, cost-effective, scalable, and efficient core systems that drive business results and provide top-notch customer experiences.
How does nOps support Azure Well-Architected?
nOps provides automated discovery of your infrastructure’s alignment with Azure Well-Architected Framework guidelines and will accelerate and improve the accuracy of a Well-Architected Review.
Moreover, since Azure recommends that alignment with the Well-Architected pillars be reviewed regularly, nOps continuously checks your infrastructural compliance and provides appropriate recommendations. This is powerful — as a follow-on to your Review or simply to drive good cloud practices.
nOps features

Cost Optimization
Save 18-50% in Azure costs with nOps single pane of glass cost dashboards, Spot and Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances planning.

Security
Get real-time notifications of security risks, comply with industry standards (like HIPAA, SOC 2) with detailed audit trails.

Reliability
Ensure stability and quick recovery from business disruptions with nOps alerts on potential vulnerabilities in your Azure environment

Performance Efficiency
Provision scalable and efficient Azure workloads with nOps discovery of underutilized resources and resource usage alerts by user and cloud services.

Operational Excellence
Get instant visibility to infrastructure changes, configuration history, and change requests.
Cost optimization
Discover, eliminate, and avoid unnecessary costs and underutilized resources — save 18-50% or more.


Security
Improve the security and compliance of your tenant resources. Get real-time, continuous notifications of discovered security violations and non-compliant events that don't conform with industry standards.
Reliability
Mitigate infrastructure or service disruptions with nOps monitoring and alerts for:


Performance efficiency
Maintain the ability of computing resources to scale optimally as demand changes and technologies evolve, with nOps monitoring and alerts for:
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