What it means
They are provider-specific expressions of broader architecture concerns. Their value comes from examining tradeoffs and evidence, not from marking every question complete once.
Why it matters
Regular architecture reviews expose risk, technical debt, and improvement opportunities as workloads and services change.
Practical focus
- Use the framework during design and major change
- Record tradeoffs, assumptions, and improvement actions
- Prioritize findings by business impact
- Repeat reviews as the workload evolves
Common mistakes
- Treating the review as certification
- Copying recommended patterns without context
- Ignoring unresolved high-risk findings after launch
Certification relevance
This subject appears in or supports the following certification bodies of knowledge: