Reliability quick links

Apply reliability guidance to your architecture to make your workload resilient to malfunction and to ensure that it returns to a fully functioning state after a failure occurs.

Learn key points

Quickstart

• Design principles
• Checklist
• Tradeoffs
• Reliability patterns
• Azure Well-Architected Review assessment

Training

• Reliability

video

• Inside Azure datacenter architecture with Mark Russinovich

Review design principles

Concept

• Design for business requirements
• Design for resilience
• Design for recovery
• Design for operations
• Keep it simple

Set and measure reliability targets

How-To Guide

• Identify flows
• Perform failure mode analysis
• Set reliability targets
• Design a monitoring and alerting strategy

Achieve reliability targets

How-To Guide

• Design for redundancy
• Use availability zones and regions
• Implement highly available multi-region design
• Partition data
• Reliably scale
• Design for self-healing and preservation
• Use background jobs
• Handle transient faults
• Design with simplicity

Test and conduct drills

How-To Guide

• Design a testing strategy
• Design a recovery strategy

Explore related resources

Reference

• Azure Advisor: Reliability recommendations
• Azure reliability documentation
• Site reliability engineering documentation