Chapter 1

Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions

While designing an IT solution, the obvious focus is on the business and function requirements. A person with a business lens focuses on ensuring that the solution addresses the business and function needs. But a person with a CIO, CISO, architect, or IT operations lens has a responsibility to ensure that the IT solution runs at the expected level of performance, is secure, is traceable, is compliant with regulatory and organization policies, and offers the optimal cost of ownership. These non-functional requirements (NFRs) are of utmost importance for an enterprise.

The Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) is a set of guidelines for architects to address these NFRs ...

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