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Pre-Built Success: Leverage Azure Reference Architectures in SMART AIM

What's included?

The SMART AIM library includes pre-built ‘Reference Architectures’ developed by our Azure Engineering Team which incorporate our methodologies, standards, and best practices. It includes:

Leveraging a Proven Foundation

SMART AIM provides a comprehensive suite of standard reference Azure architectures catering to diverse application needs. This holistic approach streamlines development processes by leveraging pre-built components from the SMART AIM Library, ensuring efficiency and scalability across various application scenarios.

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How it Works?

SMART AIM comes with a set of standard reference Azure Architectures for different application use cases as follows:

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Discovery Workshops

When seeking comprehensive solutions for your organisation’s diverse needs, gathering ample information is absolutely crucial. Our Discovery Workshops provide the needed clarity on your specific requirements, facilitating the identification of integration needs among various departments and roles.

04

Training & User Adoption

Spanish Point offers rapid on-boarding and enhanced user adoption of Microsoft Technologies through immersive, expert-led bootcamps. Gain comprehensive insights into Microsoft solutions, from Azure to Office 365 and Dynamics 365, and unlock your team’s full potential.

Apps - Modern Web Application

Azure architecture for modern web applications. Includes serverless and server-based architectures with backend databases of choice, private endpoints, web application firewall, etc.

Modern Enterprise App

Azure architecture for modern enterprise applications. Includes serverless and server-based architectures with backend databases of choice, private endpoints, web application firewall etc.

Data Analytics

Azure architecture of application which processes and analyses big data. Includes Data Factory and Databricks.

Virtual Networks

Implementation of a complete Hub and Spoke network topology. Includes VPN Gateway with S2S connection to on-premises.

Governance

Ensuring cloud governance and budget control of application resources. Includes forecasting budgets and alert notifications of Azure resources and assigning RBAC permission to groups/individuals.

Management

Monitor and manage Azure resource logs. Includes Azure recovery services and backup policies.

Virtual Machine

Templates for provisioning various Windows and Linux OS Virtual Machines or Virtual Machine Scale Sets load balanced behind a public/private load balancer or application gateway.

Containers

Provisioning public or private container registry to host images.

Features

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

It includes Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates, configuration files and associated build and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for deploying customer applications and their associated infrastructure in Azure.

Reliable

Facilitates the deployment of the Azure infrastructure and environments in a consistent way with approved best practice configurations.

Production Ready

Field-tested in live environments with our customers.

Secure by Design

All templates have either public access or private access/endpoint support.

01

Discovery Workshops

When seeking comprehensive solutions for your organisation’s diverse needs, gathering ample information is absolutely crucial. Our Discovery Workshops provide the needed clarity on your specific requirements, facilitating the identification of integration needs among various departments and roles.

04

Training & User Adoption

Spanish Point offers rapid on-boarding and enhanced user adoption of Microsoft Technologies through immersive, expert-led bootcamps. Gain comprehensive insights into Microsoft solutions, from Azure to Office 365 and Dynamics 365, and unlock your team’s full potential.

Examples of Reference PaaS Applications Architecture.

Key Features

  • Azure Front Door with WAF acting as reverse proxy to safeguard Web front end and Web API, accelerating, and delivering content globally.
  • Traffic Manager provides traffic analysis via heatmap.
  • Standard web front end hosted in Azure Web App.
  • Web API hosted in Azure Web App exposed by API Management.
  • Background job processing via Azure Function.
  • App Service Plan with auto-scaling.
  • Data storage in Azure SQL Database & Azure Storage Account.
  • Key Vault for secret credential management.
  • Virtual Network with private DNS zone integration
  • Azure SQL, Azure Storage Account and Key Vault accessed through private endpoint.
  • Application Insights to capture runtime metrics and event logs.
  • Azure Monitor for metrics and logs storage.
  • Single Region Deployment.

Key Features

  • Azure Front Door with WAF acting as reverse proxy to safeguard Web API, accelerating, and delivering content globally.
  • Azure CDN distributes static web front end site assets, with origin targeting Azure Storage Blobs, accelerating, and delivering content globally.
  • Traffic Manager provides traffic analysis via heatmap.
  • Static web front end site assets hosted in Azure Storage Account blobs.
  • Web API hosted in Azure Function App exposed by API Management.
  • Background job processing via Azure Function.
  • Function Premium Plan with auto-scaling.
  • Data storage in Azure Cosmos DB & Azure Storage Account.
  • Key Vault for secret credential management.
  • Virtual Network with private DNS zone integration.
  • Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Storage Account and Key Vault accessed through private endpoint.
  • Application Insights to capture runtime metrics and event logs.
  • Azure Monitor for metrics and logs storage.
  • Single Region Deployment.

Key Features

  • Azure Front Door with WAF acting as reverse proxy to safeguard Web front end and Web API, accelerating, and delivering content globally.
  • Azure CDN distributes static web front end assets, with origin targeting Azure Storage Blobs, accelerating, and delivering content globally.
  • Traffic Manager provides traffic analysis via heatmap, and cross region web front end and web API traffic distribution.
  • Standard web front end hosted in Azure Web App, while static web front end assets hosted in Azure Storage Account blobs.
  • Web API hosted in Azure Web App and Function App exposed by API Management.
  • Background job processing via Azure Function.
  • App Service Plan and Function Premium Plan with auto-scaling.
  • Data storage in Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB & Azure Storage Account.
  • Cross region Azure Cosmos DB and Azure SQL database data replication.
  • Key Vault for secret credential management.
  • Virtual Network with private DNS zone integration.
  • Azure SQL, Azure Storage Account and Key Vault accessed through private endpoint.
  • Application Insights to capture runtime metrics and event logs.
  • Azure Monitor for metrics and logs storage.
  • Multi-region Deployment.

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