cloud-solution-architect

cloud-solution-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 36 tokens per session (3,212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing production Azure systems using the Well-Architected Framework, a set of principles for reliability, security, cost, operations, and performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose Azure services, compare architecture styles, apply design patterns, and review systems against the framework's core areas.
Why use it?
It helps expose single points of failure, scaling problems, security gaps, and operational risks before they affect users.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to choose Azure services, compare architecture styles, apply design patterns, and review systems against the framework's core areas.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Security

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cloud-solution-architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

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plugins/cloud-infrastructure/cloud-solution-architect/skills/cloud-solution-architect/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Solution Architect

Design well-architected, production-grade cloud systems following Azure Architecture Center best practices


Ten Design Principles for Azure Applications

# Principle Key Tactics
1 Design for self-healing Retry with backoff, circuit breaker, bulkhead isolation, health endpoint monitoring, graceful degradation
2 Make all things redundant Eliminate single points of failure, use availability zones, deploy multi-region, replicate data
3 Minimize coordination Decouple services, use async messaging, embrace eventual consistency, use domain events
4 Design to scale out Horizontal scaling, autoscaling rules, stateless services, avoid session stickiness, partition workloads
5 Partition around limits Data partitioning (shard/hash/range), respect compute & network limits, use CDNs for static content
6 Design for operations Structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics & dashboards, runbook automation, infrastructure as code
7 Use managed services Prefer PaaS over IaaS, reduce operational burden, leverage built-in HA/DR/scaling
8 Use an identity service Microsoft Entra ID, managed identity, RBAC, avoid storing credentials, zero-trust principles
9 Design for evolution Loose coupling, versioned APIs, backward compatibility, async messaging for integration, feature flags
10 Build for business needs Define SLAs/SLOs, establish RTO/RPO targets, domain-driven design, cost modeling, composite SLAs

Architecture Styles

Style Description When to Use Key Services
N-tier Horizontal layers (presentation, business, data) Traditional enterprise apps, lift-and-shift App Service, SQL Database, VNets
Web-Queue-Worker Web frontend → message queue → backend worker Moderate-complexity apps with long-running tasks App Service, Service Bus, Functions
Microservices Small autonomous services, bounded contexts, independent deploy Complex domains, independent team scaling AKS, Container Apps, API Management
Event-driven Pub/sub model, event producers/consumers Real-time processing, IoT, reactive systems Event Hubs, Event Grid, Functions
Big data Batch + stream processing pipeline Analytics, ML pipelines, large-scale data Synapse, Data Factory, Databricks
Big compute HPC, parallel processing Simulations, modeling, rendering, genomics Batch, CycleCloud, HPC VMs

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 lines

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  1. 4d ago First seen · 276 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 9bee455a9c51

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cloud-solution-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,212 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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