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OCI Well-Architected Framework overview

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

The OCI Well-Architected Framework is organized into five pillars: security and compliance, reliability and resilience, performance and cost optimization, operational efficiency, and distributed cloud. The topics covered for each pillar feature one or more personas that map to typical architect roles within organizations using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Additionally, the framework presents the OCI Landing Zones as the ideal templates for deploying secure, performant, reliable, and efficient architectures on OCI.

The related OCI Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) provides a tailored set of guidelines and best practices to help facilitate a smooth onboarding process and the optimal use of cloud resources.

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Design well-architected cloud topologies

Security and compliance

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

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Reliability and resilience

Build reliable applications by architecting resilient cloud infrastructure.

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Performance and cost optimization

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

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Operational efficiency

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

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Distributed cloud

Design, integrate, and optimize deployments spanning public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, edge computing, and dedicated regions.

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Well-architected OCI Landing Zones

Access blueprints with design guidance, best practices, and Terraform templates and modules for any OCI deployment.

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OCI Well-Architected Assessment

The OCI Well-Architected Assessment is a practical tool designed to help you identify gaps, implement best practices, and unlock the full potential of OCI for your business. Our assessment framework draws on thousands of successful OCI implementations across industries, incorporating proven solutions to common challenges and emerging best practices.

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Well-architected guidance

The following playbooks and architectures are designed to provide you with guidance and starting points to help you build your deployments using well-architected standards.

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