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Expert guidance for designing, assessing, and optimizing Azure workloads using Azure Well-Architected Framework. Covers design review checklists, recommendations, tradeoffs, and workload patterns for AI, HPC, SaaS, AVD, and mission-critical systems.
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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.
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.
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
IMPORTANT for Agent: If
metadata.generated_atis more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. Ifmcp_microsoftdocstools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide
This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.| 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-L114 | Prescriptive best practices to design, operate, and optimize Azure workloads across cost, reliability, performance, security, and sustainability, including monitoring, automation, CI/CD, and incident processes. |
| Design Principles | L115-L130 | Design patterns and best practices for applying Azure Well-Architected (WAF) principles—cost, reliability, security, performance, ops, sustainability—to AI, SaaS, AVD, HPC, and mission-critical workloads. |
| Tradeoffs | L131-L140 | Guidance on weighing cost, reliability, performance, security, and operations tradeoffs in Azure architectures, including regions/AZ choices and cross-pillar design decisions. |
| Service Guides | L141-L184 | Service-specific Azure Well-Architected guidance: design, secure, operate, and optimize AVD, networking, databases, storage, containers, and PaaS services using WAF-aligned best practices. |
| Workload Patterns | L185-L237 | 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 | L238-L250 | Guided assessments and maturity models to evaluate AI, SaaS, AVD, AVS, and other Azure workloads against WAF pillars: cost, reliability, security, performance, and operations. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
npx claudepluginhub microsoftdocs/agent-skills --plugin azure-agent-skillsGuides designing Azure solutions with reference architectures, design patterns, technology choices, and migration strategies for AKS, App Service, hybrid/Arc, SAP, VDI, and mainframe workloads.
Routes Azure tasks to the right specialist agent from a catalog. Classifies tasks into domains (architecture, containers, database, etc.) and dispatches single agents or parallel teams. Does not answer Azure questions itself.
Provides Azure architecture expertise for Well-Architected Framework, landing zones, subscription strategy, hub-and-spoke networking, Entra ID identity, data platforms, Kubernetes/serverless patterns, security, and cost optimization. Use for Azure system design and service evaluation.