Azure Architecture Center

Design solutions on Azure by using established patterns and practices. The Azure Architecture Center is a catalog of solution ideas, example workloads, reference architectures, technology decision guides, and architecture guides that help cloud architects and engineers build workloads aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.

Get started

Choose a starting point based on what you need to do.

Design areas

Explore architecture guidance for designing and operating solutions across the Azure platform.

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  Design for the cloud

  Establish a strong foundation with architecture styles, best practices, and reusable patterns.

  • Learn fundamental architecture styles
  • Use best practices in cloud applications
  • Apply cloud design patterns

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  Learn about AI and Machine Learning solutions

  Explore AI architectures, solution ideas, guides, and technology choices.

  • Get started with AI architecture
  • Choose an AI service
  • Microsoft Foundry chat baseline architecture

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  Learn about Azure compute solutions

  Explore Azure compute architectures, solution ideas, guides, and technology choices.

  • Get started with compute architecture design
  • Choose an Azure compute service
  • Azure VM baseline architecture

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  Learn about Azure data solutions

  Explore Azure data architectures, solution ideas, guides, and technology choices.

  • Get started with data architecture
  • Choose an Azure data service
  • Greenfield lakehouse on Microsoft Fabric

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  Operationalize application and AI workloads

  Apply DevOps, MLOps, and GenAIOps practices across workload lifecycles.

  • Get started with DevOps architecture
  • Assess your MLOps maturity
  • Extend MLOps with GenAIOps

Frameworks and reference

Guidance that complements the architectures in this center.