Last reviewed: April 9, 2025

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Resource Categories

ArchTechLytics organizes cloud resources into high-level resource categories — the architectural building blocks of your system.

These categories bring order to complexity, helping you visualize, assess, and score your systems with clarity.

🧱 Why Resource Categories Matter

Every system includes resources like virtual machines, storage accounts, network components, or databases. To make sense of these at scale, ArchTechLytics groups them into categories:

  • Compute
    Virtual machines, scale sets, app services, container services.

  • Network
    Virtual networks, load balancers, gateways, DNS, NSGs, ASGs.

  • Storage
    Blob storage, file shares, queues, disks.

  • Data
    Databases, managed instances, analytics services.

  • Identity
    Identity Providers, Managed Identities, Key Vault, App Registrations.

  • Security
    Firewalls, security centers, DDoS protections, policies.

  • Integration
    Event Grid, Service Bus, Logic Apps, API Management.

  • Management
    Backup vaults, monitoring, automation, tagging strategies.

🎯 Scoring by Category

Categories aren’t just for organization — they influence scoring.

Each category is scored based on its included resources and the TechLytics applied to them.
Scores are rolled up:

  • At the resource level
  • Then by resource type
  • Then by category
  • And finally into your system’s total score

This helps you quickly identify weak areas within specific architectural domains (e.g., Network score is low due to open RDP).

🧠 Extensibility

New categories can be introduced over time, and each cloud provider may support different resources within each category.

ArchTechLytics is designed to extend scoring coverage as your systems grow in complexity.

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