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Planning Workloads with the Well-Architected Framework
Microsoft has different frameworks nurtured for Azure; prominent ones are the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Well-Architected Framework (WAF). There are other frameworks that are subsets of these prominent ones. In this book, we will be covering the WAF and its five pillars.
Important note
Do not get confused with the Web Application Firewall in Azure, which is also often denoted as WAF. If you see any reference to WAF in this book, that is the Well-Architected Framework.
Just to give you a quick introduction, the WAF deals with a set of best practices and guidelines developed by Microsoft for optimizing your workloads in Azure. As described in the opening paragraph, this framework ...
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