Power Platform Well-Architected

Microsoft Power Platform Well-Architected is a set of best practices, architecture guidance, and review tools to help you make informed decisions about the design, planning, and implementation of modern application workloads with Microsoft Power Platform.

Power Platform Well-Architected

Design modern application workloads that are built to change and built to last.

Power Platform Well-Architected helps you design your modern application workloads to both meet current requirements and adapt to future needs and challenges. Start with the pillars, and then align your design choices with the principles for each pillar. Build a strong foundation for your workload based on the design review checklists, recommendation guides, and tradeoffs. Use the Assessment to help you identify the areas where you need to devote your attention and resources.

Pillars

  • Reliability

    Ensure the workload meets the uptime and recovery targets by building redundancy and resiliency at scale.

  • Security

    Protect the workload from attacks by maintaining confidentiality and data integrity.

  • Operational Excellence

    Reduce issues in production by building holistic observability and automated systems.

  • Performance Efficiency

    Adjust to changes in demands placed on the workload through horizontal scaling and by testing changes before deploying to production.

Power Platform prescriptive guidance

Power Platform product documentation