azfun_checklist.en.json

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        {
            "category": "BC and DR",
            "subcategory": "High Availability",
            "text": "Select the right Function hosting plan based on your business & SLO requirements",
            "waf": "Reliability",
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            "guid": "4238f409-2ea0-43be-a06b-2a993c98aa7b",
            "id": "A01.01",
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            "severity": "High",
            "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-scale#overview-of-plans"
        },
        {
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            "text": "Leverage Availability Zones where regionally applicable (not available for Consumption tier)",
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            "id": "A01.02",
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            "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-scale#overview-of-plans"
        },
        {
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            "text": "Consider a Cross-Region DR strategy for critical workloads",
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            "guid": "5969d03e-eacf-4042-b127-73c55e3575fa",
            "id": "A01.03",
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            "severity": "Medium",
            "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-functions?tabs=azure-portal#cross-region-disaster-recovery-and-business-continuity"
        },
        {
            "category": "BC and DR",
            "subcategory": "High Availability",
            "text": "If deploying to an Isolated environment, use or migrate to App Service Environment (ASE) v3",
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            "guid": "47a0aae0-d8a0-43b1-9791-e934dee3754c",
            "id": "A01.04",
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            "severity": "High",
            "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/environment/intro"
        },
        {
            "category": "BC and DR",
            "subcategory": "High Availability",
            "text": "Ensure 'Always On' is enabled for all Function Apps running on App Service Plan",
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            "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/dedicated-plan#always-on"
        },
        {
            "category": "BC and DR",
            "subcategory": "High Availability",
            "text": "Pair a Function App to its own storage account. Try not to re-use storage accounts for Function Apps unless they are tightly coupled",
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            "guid": "40a325c2-7c0e-49e6-86d8-c273b4dc21ba",
            "id": "A01.06",
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            "severity": "Medium",
            "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/storage-considerations?tabs=azure-cli#shared-storage-accounts"
        },
        {
            "category": "Application Deployment",
            "subcategory": "CI/CD",
            "text": "Leverage Azure DevOps or GitHub to streamline CI/CD and safeguard your Function App code",
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            "guid": "bb42650c-257d-4cb0-822a-131138b8e6f0",
            "id": "B01.01",
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            "severity": "Medium",
            "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/deploy-azure-functions/"
        }
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        {
            "name": "Performance"
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            "name": "Not verified",
            "description": "This check has not been looked at yet"
        },
        {
            "name": "Open",
            "description": "There is an action item associated to this check"
        },
        {
            "name": "Fulfilled",
            "description": "This check has been verified, and there are no further action items associated to it"
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        {
            "name": "Not required",
            "description": "Recommendation understood, but not needed by current requirements"
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        {
            "name": "N/A",
            "description": "Not applicable for current design"
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            "name": "Yes"
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            "name": "No"
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    "metadata": {
        "name": "Azure Function Review",
        "state": "Preview",
        "waf": "all",
        "timestamp": "April 09, 2024"
    }
}