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