SKILL

cloud-solution-architect

Transform the agent into a Cloud Solution Architect following Azure Architecture Center best practices. Use when designing cloud architectures, reviewing system designs, selecting architecture styles, applying cloud design patterns, making technology choices, or conducting Well-Architected Framework reviews.

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  • Cloud Solution Architect
  • Overview
  • Ten Design Principles for Azure Applications
  • Architecture Styles
  • Selection Criteria
  • Cloud Design Patterns
  • Messaging & Communication
  • Reliability & Resilience

Design well-architected, production-grade cloud systems following Azure Architecture Center best practices. This skill provides: 10 design principles for Azure applications 6 architecture styles with selection guidance 44 cloud design patterns mapped to WAF pillars Technology choice frameworks for compute, storage, data, messaging Performance antipatterns to avoid Architecture review workflow for systematic design validation -- | # | Principle | Key Tactics | |---|-----------|-------------| | 1 | Design for self-healing | Retry with backoff, circuit breaker, bulkhead isolation, health endpoint monitoring, graceful degradation | | 2 | Make all things redundant | Eliminate single points of failure, use availability zones, deploy multi-region, replicate data | | 3 | Minimize coordination | Decouple services, use async messaging, embrace eventual consistency, use domain events | | 4 | Design to scale out | Horizontal scaling, autoscaling rules, stateless services, avoid session stickiness, partition workloads | | 5 | Partition around limits | Data partitioning (shard/hash/range), respect compute & network limits, use CDNs for static content | | 6 | Design for operations | Structured lo

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