internal-azure-strategic

name	internal-azure-strategic
description	Use when /internal-azure selects explicit Azure decision framing, tradeoff analysis, or proportional multi-lens support.

Internal Azure Strategic

Use this workflow for Azure decisions where comparing viable directions is the immediate deliverable.

When to use

Use when /internal-azure selects a strategic Azure decision, tradeoff note, or multi-lens analysis.

Workflow

1. State the decision statement: the Azure choice and the outcome it must support.
2. Record assumptions about current state, constraints, timing, ownership, cost, and required evidence.
3. Select the minimum lenses that can change the recommendation and make the active lenses explicit.
4. Compare realistic options with concrete tradeoffs, operating impact, and cost-value implications when material.
5. Give a recommendation and explain why it wins under the stated assumptions.
6. Record material risk, blast radius, and validation needs.
7. State reversibility and the conditions for staged adoption or rollback.
8. Apply the completion criteria: the decision, assumptions, active lenses, options, recommendation, risks, reversibility, and validation path are explicit.

Proportional output

• Use a quick answer for a narrow choice with one clear direction.
• Use a decision note when two or three viable options require tradeoff review.
• Use deep analysis for broad, consequential, high-risk, or explicitly detailed decisions.

Use current Microsoft documentation when freshness about service support, landing-zone guidance, Policy behavior, regional capability, or service limits could change the recommendation.

Load references/lens-playbook.md for lens combinations, depth selection, and decision-note structure.

Completion criteria

Return the decision statement, assumptions, active lenses, realistic options, recommendation, material risk, reversibility, and validation path.