Azure Review Checklists

A common request of many organisations, starting with the public cloud, is to have their design double-checked to make sure that best practices are being followed. The scope of this exercise could vary, from generic Azure landing zones to workload-specific deployments.

When doing Azure design reviews (or any review for that matter), Microsoft employees and Microsoft partners often leverage Excel spreadsheets as the medium of choice to document findings and track design improvements and recommendations. A problem with Excel spreadsheets is that they are not easily subject to revision control. Additionally, team collaboration with branching, issues, pull requests, reviews, and others is difficult at best—impossible in most cases.

There are three ways to use these checklists.

1. Via Excel
2. Via Web Application hosted at https://aka.ms/ftaaas.
3. Azure Resource Graph Queries

Reporting errors and contributing

Please feel free to open an issue or create a PR if you find any error or missing information in the checklists, following the Contributing guidelines.

Checklists

Summary of checklists supported and the respective responsible owners:

Checklist	Status	CodeOwners
ALZ	GA	FTA-ALZ-vTeam, ALZ-checklist-contributors
WAF	GA	Dynamically generated
AKS	GA	@msftnadavbh @seenu433 @erjosito
ARO	Preview	@msftnadavbh @naioja @erjosito
AVD	GA	@igorpag @mikewarr @bagwyth
Cost	GA	@brmoreir @pea-ms
Multitenancy	GA	@arsenvlad @cherchyk
Application Delivery Networking	GA	@erjosito @andredewes
AVS design	Preview	@fskelly @mgodfrey50 @robinher
AVS implementation	Preview	@fskelly @mgodfrey50 @robinher
SAP	GA	@NaokiIgarashi @AlastairMorrison @mottach
API Management	Preview	@andredewes @seenu433
Stack HCI	Preview	@mbrat2005 @steveswalwell @igomaa
Spring Apps	Preview	@bappadityams @vermegi @fmustaf
Azure DevOps	Preview	@roshair
SQL Migration	Preview	@karthikyella @dbabulldog-repo
Security	Deprecated	@mgodfrey50 @rudneir2

Disclaimer

• This is not official Microsoft documentation or software.
• This is not an endorsement or a sign-off of an architecture or a design.
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