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Azure Architecture Center

Guidance for architecting solutions on Azure using established patterns and practices.

ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT

Browse Azure architectures Explore cloud best practices

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Architecting applications on Azure

Best practices and patterns for building applications on Microsoft Azure

Design for the cloud Optimize your workload

Principles of a well-designed application Guiding tenets for your architecture
Best practices in cloud applications Examine your workload
Responsible engineering Performance tuning
Application design patterns Performance antipatterns
Architect multitenant solutions on Azure Secure your infrastructure
Build microservices on Azure

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Choose the right technology Essential scenarios

Choose a compute service Architecture for startups
Choose a Kubernetes at the edge option Azure and Power Platform solutions
Choose a data store Azure and Microsoft 365 solutions
Choose a load-balancing service AWS services comparison
Choose a messaging service Google Cloud services comparison
Choose an IoT solution

Technology Areas
Explore architectures and guides for different technologies

Popular Articles AI & Machine Learning

ｉ AKS Production Baseline ｐ Artificial intelligence (AI) architecture design
ｉ AWS to Azure services comparison Ｙ Training of Python scikit-learn models
ｉ Google Cloud to Azure services comparison Ｙ Distributed training of deep learning models
ｐ Cloud Design Patterns Ｙ Batch scoring of Python models
ｐ CQRS design pattern Ｙ Conversational bot
ｐ Best practices in cloud applications ｉ Machine learning options
ｉ Web API design ｐ Machine learning at scale
ｐ Performance antipatterns for cloud ｐ Natural language processing
applications
ｐ R developer's guide to Azure
ｉ Choose your Azure compute service ｂ Movie recommendation
ｉ Application architecture fundamentals ｐ Cognitive services options
Ｙ Hub-spoke network topology ｐ Team Data Science Process
ｐ Architect multitenant solutions on Azure
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Analytics Databases
ｂ Analytics architecture design ｂ Databases architecture design
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ｐ Choose an analytical data store in Azure ｐ Big Data architectures

ｐ Choose a data analytics technology in Azure ｐ Build a scalable system for massive data
Ｙ Analytics end-to-end with Azure Synapse ｐ Choose a data store
Ｙ Automated enterprise BI with Azure Data ｐ Extract, transform, and load (ETL)
Factory
ｐ Online analytical processing (OLAP)
Ｙ Stream processing with Azure Databricks ｐ Online transaction processing (OLTP)
｀ Databricks Monitoring ｐ Data warehousing in Microsoft Azure
Ｙ Advanced analytics architecture ｂ Data lakes
ｂ IoT analytics for construction ｂ Extend on-premises data solutions to the
Ｙ Real-time fraud detection cloud
Ｙ Mining equipment monitoring ｂ Free-form text search
Ｙ Predict the length of stay in hospitals ｂ Time series solutions

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DevOps Enterprise integration

ｐ Checklist Ｙ Basic enterprise integration
ｃ Advanced Azure Resource Manager Templates Ｙ Enterprise BI with SQL Data Warehouse
ｂ DevOps with Azure DevOps Ｙ Enterprise integration with queues and events
ｂ DevOps with containers
ｂ Jenkins server

High performance computing (HPC) Identity

ｂ Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ｃ Identity in multitenant applications
ｂ Computer-aided engineering Ｙ Choose an Active Directory integration
architecture
ｂ HPC video rendering
ｂ Image Modeling Ｙ Integrate on-premises AD with Azure AD
Ｙ Extend AD DS to Azure
ｂ Linux virtual desktops
Ｙ Create an AD DS forest in Azure
Introduction to HPC on Azure
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Ｙ Extend AD FS to Azure

Internet of Things (IoT) Microservices

Ｙ Internet of Things (IoT) architecture ｃ Domain analysis

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ｂ Automotive IoT data ｃ Tactical DDD

ｂ Telehealth System ｃ Identify microservice boundaries
ｃ Design a microservices architecture
ｃ Monitor microservices in Azure Kubernetes
Service (AKS)
ｃ CI/CD for microservices
ｃ CI/CD for microservices on Kubernetes
ｃ Migrate from Cloud Services to Service Fabric
Ｙ Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Ｙ Azure Service Fabric
ｂ Decomposing a monolithic application

Introduction to microservices on Azure

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Networking Serverless applications

Ｙ Choose a hybrid network architecture ｃ Code walkthrough
Ｙ ExpressRoute Ｙ Serverless event processing
Ｙ ExpressRoute with VPN failover Ｙ Serverless web application
Ｙ Troubleshoot a hybrid VPN connection
Introduction to Serverless Applications on Azure
Ｙ Hub-spoke topology Ｔ
Ｙ DMZ between Azure and on-premises
Ｙ DMZ between Azure and the Internet
Ｙ Highly available network virtual appliances
Ｙ Segmenting Virtual Networks

VM workloads SAP
Ｙ Linux VM deployment Ｙ Overview
Ｙ Windows VM deployment Ｙ SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)
Ｙ N-tier application with Cassandra (Linux) Ｙ SAP HANA Scale-up on Linux
Ｙ N-tier application with SQL Server (Windows) Ｙ SAP NetWeaver on Windows on Azure
Ｙ Multi-region N-tier application Ｙ SAP S/4HANA in Linux on Azure
ｂ Highly scalable WordPress Ｙ SAP BW/4HANA in Linux on Azure
ｂ Multi-tier Windows Ｙ SAP NetWeaver on SQL Server
Ｙ SAP deployment using an Oracle DB
Ｙ Dev/test for SAP

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Web apps
Ｙ Basic web application
Ｙ Improved scalability
Ｙ Multi-region deployment
Ｙ Web application monitoring
ｂ E-commerce API management
ｂ E-commerce front-end
ｂ E-commerce product search
ｂ Publishing internal APIs externally
ｂ Securely managed web application
ｂ Highly available web application

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