In this guide, we've shared how Contoso Fiber modernized their Customer Account Management System (CAMS) by leveraging Azure's cloud-native capabilities, addressing scalability, reliability, and cost optimization. Contoso made these changes to break free from limitations of their monolithic setup, allowing for easier scaling and more efficient handling of fluctuating demand. These strategies, drawn from Azure resources and best practices, illustrate a modernization path that other businesses can follow to achieve similar benefits.
This section highlights those key resources, providing a deeper dive into Azure’s architecture and modernization techniques that empower other projects to succeed with cloud-native solutions.
Use the following resources to learn more about Microsoft's best practices and recommendations for building solutions on Azure.
For further guidance on how to build Azure solutions that align with Microsoft's best practices and recommendations
- Cloud Adoption Framework - Helps an organization prepare and execute their strategy to build solutions on Azure.
- Azure Architecture Center fundamentals - Provides a library of content that presents a structured approach for designing applications on Azure that are scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available.
- Well Architected Framework - Describes the best practices and design principles that should be applied when designing Azure solutions that align with Microsoft's recommended best practices.
- Azure Architectures - Provides architecture diagrams and technology descriptions for reference architectures, real world examples of cloud architectures, and solution ideas for common workloads on Azure.
The following tools and resources can help you with migrating on-prem resources to Azure.
- Azure Migrate - Azure Migrate provides a simplified migration, modernization, and optimization service for Azure that handles assessment, migration of web apps, SQL server, and Virtual Machines.
- Azure Database Migration Guides - Provides resources for different database types, and different tools designed for your migration scenario.
- Azure App Service Landing Zone Accelerator - Deployment architecture guidance for hardening and scaling Azure App Service deployments.
- Register an application - Quickstart: Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform.
- Application authentication certificate credentials - Microsoft identity platform application authentication certificate credentials.