Significant Resources

Significant Resources are Azure resource types that ArchTechLytics actively evaluates and includes in system scoring.

These are the types of resources that meaningfully impact:

Resiliency
Security
Cost
Performance
Operational Integrity

🧠 Why It Matters

Not every resource in Azure is critical to architecture analysis.
Significant Resources allow ArchTechLytics to:

Focus scoring on what’s meaningful
Ignore “noise” like NSGs or naming-only resources (unless contextually relevant)
Continuously expand as new Azure services become relevant

📋 Current Examples

Some supported significant resource types include:

Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines
Microsoft.Web/sites
Microsoft.Sql/servers
Microsoft.Insights/components
Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces

Each is evaluated against its role in the system and the system’s declared criticality.

📊 Not All Significant Resources Are Scored

Just because a resource is significant doesn’t mean it’s scored (yet).

Scoring support requires ArchTechLytics to implement a full set of TechLytics for that resource type. This takes development time and research.

For example:

Azure Virtual Machines are both significant and scored.

Key Vaults may be significant (for security posture) but not yet scored if TechLytics aren’t implemented.

➡️ See what’s scored today

📦 Resource Mapping

When a System is defined, you’ll map resources to it. ArchTechLytics will:

Validate that mapped resources are significant
Score only those that impact architecture
Alert you when significant resources are added or removed

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