azure-reliability

# Azure Reliability Skill This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Reliability. Covers best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, and limits & quotas. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities. ## How to Use This Skill > **IMPORTANT for Agent**: Use the **Category Index** below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., `L35-L120`), use `read_file` with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., `[security.md](security.md)`), use `read_file` on the linked reference file > **IMPORTANT for Agent**: If `metadata.generated_at` is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If `mcp_microsoftdocs` tools are not available, suggest the user install it: [Installation Guide](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/mcp/blob/main/README.md) This skill requires **network access** to fetch documentation content: - **Preferred**: Use `mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch` with query string `from=learn-agent-skill`. Returns Markdown. - **Fallback**: Use `fetch_webpage` with query string `from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown`. Returns Markdown. ## Category Index | Category | Lines | Description | |----------|-------|-------------| | Best Practices | L32-L69 | Patterns and guidance for designing, configuring, and hardening highly available, zone-resilient architectures across core Azure services (compute, data, networking, and monitoring). | | Decision Making | L70-L79 | Guidance on choosing Azure regions and services for reliability: region types, availability zones, geo-paired regions, multiregion and nonregional services, and disaster recovery options. | | Architecture & Design Patterns | L80-L86 | Patterns for designing highly available Azure apps: zonal deployments, multiregion architectures (including nonpaired regions), and resilient Azure Storage Discovery setups. | | Limits & Quotas | L87-L91 | Guidance on Azure Queue Storage message size limits and designing reliable, scalable Azure Web PubSub apps under service quotas and constraints | ### Best Practices | Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Design Azure workloads for zone resiliency | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-enable-zone-resiliency | | Design resilient clusters in Azure Kubernetes Service | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-aks | | Configure reliability for Azure API Center | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-api-center | | Build resilient configurations with Azure App Configuration | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-app-configuration | | Harden Azure App Service Environment reliability | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-app-service-environment | | Build resilient Application Gateway for Containers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-application-gateway-containers | | Architect highly available Azure Application Gateway v2 | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-application-gateway-v2 | | Design resilient Azure Automation runbooks and recovery | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-automation | | Design resilient backup strategies with Azure Backup | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-backup | | Design resilient Azure Batch workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-batch | | Plan reliability for Azure Bot Service | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-bot | | Design resilient Azure Cosmos DB deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-cosmos-db | | Harden Azure Data Factory for outages | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-data-factory | | Design resilient Azure Database for MySQL deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-database-mysql | | Implement resiliency for Azure Database for PostgreSQL | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-database-postgresql | | Implement resilient architectures in Azure Databricks | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-databricks | | Improve reliability of Azure DNS private zones | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-dns-private | | Design resilient architectures for Azure DNS Private Resolver | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-dns-private-resolver | | Build resilient architectures with Azure Event Grid | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-event-grid | | Increase reliability of Azure Event Hubs streaming | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-event-hubs | | Design reliable and resilient Azure Functions workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-functions | | Design resilient architectures with Azure Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-load-balancer | | Design resilient workflows with Azure Logic Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-logic-apps | | Improve reliability of Azure Managed Grafana workspaces | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-managed-grafana | | Increase reliability of Azure Managed Redis caches | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-managed-redis | | Design resilient Azure Monitor health models | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-monitor-health-models | | Design resilient Azure Monitor Logs workspaces | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-monitor-logs | | Design resilient Azure Notification Hubs deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-notification-hubs | | Harden Azure Private Link Service for high reliability | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-private-link-service | | Design resilient Azure Storage Actions workflows | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-storage-actions | | Increase reliability of Azure Stream Analytics jobs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-stream-analytics | | Design resilient architectures with Azure Traffic Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-traffic-manager | | Improve reliability of Azure VM Image Builder | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-vm-image-builder | | Design resilient workloads on Azure VMware Solution | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-vmware-solution | ### Decision Making | Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Choose Azure services by region type and category | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-service-by-category | | Choose Azure services with availability zone support | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-service-support | | Choose Azure regions by geography and availability zones | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-list | | Select Azure services with built-in multiregion support | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-multiregion-support | | Select and understand Azure nonregional services | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-nonregional-services | | Use Azure region pairs for geo-redundancy and DR | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-paired | ### Architecture & Design Patterns | Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Design and harden zonal Azure resource deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-zonal-resource-resiliency | | Design multiregion solutions in nonpaired Azure regions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-multi-region-nonpaired | | Design resilient Azure Storage Discovery deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-storage-discovery | ### Limits & Quotas | Topic | URL | |-------|-----| | Understand Azure Queue Storage message size limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-storage-queue | | Plan reliability and scale for Azure Web PubSub | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-web-pubsub |