Microsoft Fabric Well-Architected documentation

Learn about designing workloads on Microsoft Fabric with reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, and performance efficiency in mind to build sustainable, scalable analytics platforms.

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Overview

• What is a Well-Architected Microsoft Fabric workload?
• Common architectural challenges
• Architecture patterns

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• Design methodology for Fabric workloads

Optimize reliability

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• Know your constraints and boundaries
• Understand where failures happen
• Define reliability goals for your workloads
• Build self-healing through redundancy
• Plan for disaster recovery

Secure your workloads

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• Start with a security baseline
• Design isolation boundaries
• Use identity as the primary security perimeter
• Secure network communications
• Harden workload assets

Optimize costs

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• Identify key cost drivers
• Model costs effectively
• Monitor costs and implement governance
• Optimize environment costs
• Reduce costs through automation

Achieve operational excellence

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• Prepare your team
• Deploy changes safely
• Automate operations
• Monitor your environment
• Have an incident response plan

Improve performance efficiency

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• Plan capacity deliberately
• Design scaling strategies
• Monitor performance issues
• Do performance testing
• Optimize performance