Pump up your cloud with the five pillars of architectural excellence: Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, and Security; a more than toothy mouthful made palatable by a pair of Microsoft's top thought leaders: David Stanford and Jason Roberts.

BIO: David Stanford is a Principal PM on the patterns and practices team in Developer Relations.  He has spent the last eight years working in the cloud helping customers build successful workloads across a variety of different industries.

BIO: Jason Roberts is a PM Manager with the patterns & practices team in Developer Relations.  He has worked in the cloud migration and cloud native development space for the last 5 years, primarily in driving data-center oriented enterprises to cloud-native globally-distributed solutions. 

LINKS: The Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework; Azure Well-Architected Review; Azure Architecture Center; Recommended naming and tagging practices 

CREDITS: Louis Berman (Host); David Stanford & Jason Roberts (Guests); Dan Phillipson / PremiumBeat (Music); Anne Lamb (Intro/Outro); East Coast Studio (Editing)

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