Insight Recommendations

These recommendations from Insight are deviations away from the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and are intended to be a starting point for your organisation. They can be adjusted to suit your needs.

Azure Governance

General

• Resource Groups: Use arg as the name shortcode.
• Storage Accounts: Use sta as the name shortcode.
• Subresources: All subresources, such as API services in APIM, should include the root resource shortcode.

Subresources

• Subresources: All subresources, such as API services in APIM, should include the root resource shortcode.
• Subresource Optionality: For some sub resources, like rule groups on an Azure Firewall, a more description name should be used. For example, FROM-azPlatform-TO-azCloud.AustraliaEast.

Networking

• NSG Rules: Names should logically spell out the traffic details. For example, OUTBOUND-FROM-subnet-TO-Internet-PORT-443-PROT-Tcp-ALLOW.
• vNet Suffix: Include the first CIDR range of the vNet in the suffix. For example, 10.204.2.0_23, replacing / with _.