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OCI Well-Architected Framework overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides infrastructure and platform services for a wide range of enterprise workloads. For each service, you can choose from a rich array of features based on your goals. Oracle recommends a set of best practices to design and operate cloud topologies that deliver the maximum business value.

The OCI Well-Architected Framework is organized into four business goals: security and compliance, reliability and resilience, performance and cost optimization, and operational efficiency. The topics covered for each business goal feature one or more personas that map to architect roles within typical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure organizations. In addition, the OCI Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) provides a tailored set of guidelines and best practices to help ensure a smooth onboarding process and the optimal use of cloud resources.

Design well-architected cloud topologies

Security and compliance

Secure and protect your system and information assets in the cloud.

Well-architected security and compliance

CAF security

Reliability and resilience

Build reliable applications by architecting resilient cloud infrastructure.

Well-architected reliability and resilience

CAF technology implementation

Performance and cost optimization

Utilize resources efficiently to derive the best performance at the lowest cost.

Well-architected performance and cost optimization

CAF optimization

Operational efficiency

Operate and monitor your apps and infrastructure to deliver the maximum business value.

Well-architected operational efficiency

CAF management and operations

Well-architected guidance

The OCI Governance Model, the Enterprise Scale Baseline landing zone, and the CIS Foundations Benchmark landing zone are designed to provide you with guidance and starting points for your deployments implementing well-architected standards.

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