1---2name: azure-reliability3description: Expert knowledge for Azure Reliability development including best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, and limits & quotas. Use when choosing Azure regions/zones, AKS/DB/queue designs, Web PubSub scaling, or DR/failover architectures, and other Azure Reliability related development tasks. Not for Azure Resiliency (use azure-resiliency), Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Service Health (use azure-service-health), Azure Sre Agent (use azure-sre-agent).4---5# Azure Reliability Skill67This 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.89## How to Use This Skill1011> **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 file1213This skill requires **network access** to fetch documentation content:14- **Preferred**: Use `mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch`. Returns Markdown.15- **Fallback**: Use `WebFetch`. Returns Markdown.1617## Category Index1819| Category | Lines | Description |20|----------|-------|-------------|21| Best Practices | L28-L69 | Patterns and guidance to design, configure, and harden Azure services (AKS, DBs, networking, messaging, backup, monitoring) for high availability, failover, and disaster recovery. |22| Decision Making | L70-L79 | Guidance on choosing Azure regions and services (regional, zonal, multiregion, nonregional), using region pairs, and designing multi-region architectures for higher reliability. |23| Architecture & Design Patterns | L80-L85 | Designing Azure apps for high availability using zones and multi-region patterns, including zonal vs zone-redundant deployments, hardening strategies, and non-paired region failover. |24| Limits & Quotas | L86-L90 | Guidance on Azure Queue Storage message size limits and designing reliable, scalable Azure Web PubSub apps under service quotas and constraints |2526### Best Practices27| Topic | URL |28|-------|-----|29| Design resilient clusters in Azure Kubernetes Service | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-aks |30| Configure reliability for Azure API Center | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-api-center |31| Build resilient configurations with Azure App Configuration | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-app-configuration |32| Build resilient configurations with Azure App Configuration | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-app-configuration |33| Harden Azure App Service Environment reliability | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-app-service-environment |34| Architect highly available Azure Application Gateway v2 | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-application-gateway-v2 |35| Design resilient backup strategies with Azure Backup | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-backup |36| Design resilient backup strategies with Azure Backup | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-backup |37| Plan reliability for Azure Bot Service | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-bot |38| Design resilient Azure Cosmos DB deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-cosmos-db |39| Design resilient Azure Cosmos DB deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-cosmos-db |40| Harden Azure Data Factory for outages | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-data-factory |41| Design resilient Azure Database for MySQL deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-database-mysql |42| Design resilient Azure Database for MySQL deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-database-mysql |43| Implement resiliency for Azure Database for PostgreSQL | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-database-postgresql |44| Implement resilient architectures in Azure Databricks | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-databricks |45| Ensure reliability for Azure Device Registry metadata | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-device-registry |46| Design resilient architectures for Azure DNS Private Resolver | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-dns-private-resolver |47| Design high availability for Azure DocumentDB | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-documentdb |48| Implement resilient Azure Elastic SAN deployments and recovery | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-elastic-san |49| Implement resilient architectures with Azure Elastic SAN | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-elastic-san |50| Build resilient architectures with Azure Event Grid | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-event-grid |51| Increase reliability of Azure Event Hubs streaming | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-event-hubs |52| Design reliable analytics with Microsoft Fabric | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-fabric |53| Design reliable and resilient Azure Functions workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-functions |54| Design reliable and resilient Azure Functions workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-functions |55| Implement disaster recovery for Azure Image Builder | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-image-builder |56| Design resilient architectures with Azure Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-load-balancer |57| Design resilient architectures with Azure Load Balancer | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-load-balancer |58| Design resilient workflows with Azure Logic Apps | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-logic-apps |59| Improve reliability of Azure Managed Grafana workspaces | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-managed-grafana |60| Increase reliability of Azure Managed Redis caches | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-managed-redis |61| Implement resilient logging with Azure Monitor Logs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-monitor-logs |62| Improve reliability of Azure Notification Hubs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-notification-hubs |63| Harden Azure Private Link Service for high reliability | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-private-link-service |64| Increase reliability of Azure Stream Analytics jobs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-stream-analytics |65| Design resilient architectures with Azure Traffic Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-traffic-manager |66| Design resilient workloads on Azure VMware Solution | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-vmware-solution |6768### Decision Making69| Topic | URL |70|-------|-----|71| Choose Azure services by region type and category | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-service-by-category |72| Choose Azure services with availability zone support | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-service-support |73| Select Azure regions with geography and pairing data | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-list |74| Design multi-region solutions in nonpaired Azure regions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-multi-region-nonpaired |75| Select Azure services with built-in multiregion support | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-multiregion-support |76| Select and understand Azure nonregional services | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-nonregional-services |7778### Architecture & Design Patterns79| Topic | URL |80|-------|-----|81| Enable and plan zone-resilient Azure workloads | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-enable-zone-resiliency |82| Design and harden zonal Azure resource deployments | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-zonal-resource-resiliency |8384### Limits & Quotas85| Topic | URL |86|-------|-----|87| Understand Azure Queue Storage message size limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-storage-queue |88| Plan reliability and scale for Azure Web PubSub | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-web-pubsub |
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