As a Dynamics 365 CE solution architect, a basic understanding of the Azure cloud platform components is a must. Due to the nature of Dynamics CRM Online (and Dataverse) being a shared resource operated by Microsoft, there are limitations on how much time and resources your data processing and business logic can consume. By passing of your code to Azure cloud, you remove these resource limits and you can also benefit of specific innovations available in Azure Cloud (e.g. AI capabilities in Azure Cognitive Services). Microsoft offers a number of standard integrations which enable these scenarios - one example is the ability of plugins to pass their execution context to one or more Azure components.
As solution architect you will be working with developers and technical architects to translate your proposed solution architecture into an integrated system and therefore a good initial understanding of Azure Cloud is essential. If you have already implemented a number of solution architectures combining Azure resources and Dynamics CE online, it might make sense to revisit these setups once in a while since things change rapidly in the cloud. This is where the Azure Well-Architected Framework comes in.
The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding principles that can be used to improve the quality of a workload hosted in Microsoft Azure. The framework consists of five pillars of architecture excellence:
- Cost optimization
- Operational excellence
- Performance efficiency
- Reliability
- Security.
Incorporating these pillars helps produce high-quality, stable, and efficient cloud architecture.
References:
- Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Docs
- Microsoft Assessment Tools landing page - includes Azure Well Architected Framework but also other interesting ones like DevOps Capability Assessment
- Recording of Well-Architected: The backstage tour
- Introduction to Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn
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