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How resilient are your Azure deployments? Richard chats with Chris Ayers about his work on Azure reliability - not only for customers using Azure, but for Azure itself! Chris focuses on the Well-Architected Framework as a guideline for thinking through all the elements of resiliency in Azure. As with all things, there are trade-offs of cost and reliability - you'll want to build a spreadsheet to balance the cost of an outage against the expenses of resiliency services in Azure - and your own labor to maintain it! Chris provides his own talks and an extensive list of links for you to build up a comprehensive analysis of resiliency options - check it out!
Links
- FastTrack
- Azure Status
- Azure Well Architected Framework
- Virtual Machine Scale Set
- Deployment Stamps Pattern
- Automatic Scaling in Azure App Service
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Command-Line Interface
- Copilot in Azure
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Proactive Resiliency Library v2
- Azure Front Door
- Chris' Azure Resiliency Talk
Recorded October 3, 2025