Course Overview
This training focuses on the complexities of designing and governing enterprise-scale Azure environments. The curriculum is tailored for architects and lead engineers who must move beyond basic deployments to build self-service platforms, implement policy-driven governance, and ensure maximum resilience for mission-critical workloads. The focus is on the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) in the context of real-world production constraints.
Delivery & Duration
Two primary formats are available to align with team expertise and project complexity. Both are delivered online (live) or in-person.
- The 1-Day Intensive: For senior architects and decision-makers needing rapid proficiency in enterprise patterns. Focus is placed on high-level strategy, Enterprise Landing Zone patterns, and architectural decision-making frameworks.
- The Multi-Day Implementation Workshop: Provides detailed whiteboarding sessions, design-review workshops, and deep-dives into Policy-as-Code implementation and cost-modeling for large-scale environments. Includes collaborative design exercises for specific enterprise challenges.
- Modular Delivery: Options exist to split sessions into 4-hour blocks to minimize impact on operational or project cycles.
Prerequisites: Solid understanding of Azure architecture fundamentals and Landing Zone concepts OR completion of Azure Architecture & Landing Zones training. Prior experience designing enterprise-scale systems recommended.
Program Curriculum
Module 1: Enterprise-Scale & Landing Zones
- Designing for Enterprise-Scale: Transitioning from Hub-and-Spoke to Managed Virtual WAN.
- Advanced Management Group and Subscription hierarchy for global organizations.
- Resource Sovereignty: Designing for data residency and localized compliance in multi-region setups.
- Implementing Self-Service Platforms: Architectural patterns for developer velocity without loss of control.
- Subscription Democratization: Managing lifecycle and decommissioning at scale.
Module 2: Advanced Resilience & Chaos Engineering
- Beyond High Availability: Designing for regional and global failover scenarios.
- Chaos Engineering Principles: Proactively testing for failure and identifying weak links in distributed systems.
- Cross-region data replication strategies and Recovery Point/Time Objective (RPO/RTO) trade-offs.
- Load balancing strategies: Integrating Global Front Door with regional Application Gateways.
- Designing for Graceful Degradation: Maintaining core functionality during platform outages.
Module 3: Security-as-Code & Zero Trust
- Implementing Zero Trust Architecture at the workload and platform level.
- Policy-as-Code: Automating architectural guardrails using Azure Policy and Bicep/Terraform.
- Workload Identity: Moving away from secrets/keys to Managed Identities and OIDC.
- Integrating advanced threat protection and SIEM/SOAR at the architectural level.
- Auditing and compliance automation: Designing for continuous compliant-by-default states.
Module 4: Performance, FinOps & Sustainability
- FinOps Alignment: Designing for unit economics and shared-cost attribution.
- Advanced scaling patterns: Predictive autoscale and horizontal vs. vertical optimization.
- Architectural right-sizing: Balancing performance requirements with long-term cost sustainability.
- Monitoring and Observability: Designing distributed tracing and telemetry into the architecture.
- Sustainability in the Cloud: Optimizing for carbon footprint and energy efficiency in high-scale deployments.
Key Takeaways
Participants will be equipped to:
- Govern at Scale: Implement automated guardrails that enforce architectural integrity across thousands of resources.
- Master Resilience: Move beyond hope-based DR to a chaos-tested resilience model.
- Eliminate Technical Debt: Shift from manual security and identity management to a code-first, identity-centric model.
- Optimize Economics: Build architectures that are financially transparent and align directly with business value.
- Lead Enterprise Transformation: Design self-service platforms that balance developer autonomy with governance requirements.
Engagement Details
Delivery Format: Online (live) or in-person
Duration: 1-day intensive or multi-day implementation workshop
Customization: Training depth and content focus can be adjusted based on team requirements and specific business context
Investment: Starting from €1,400 per day. Final quote based on format, duration, number of participants, and specific requirements (provided following brief discussion).
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