/azure-reliability

name: azure-reliability
description: Expert knowledge for Azure Reliability development including best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, and limits & quotas. Use when designing multi-region Azure apps using zones, AKS, databases, networking, messaging, or Web PubSub, 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 Site Recovery (use azure-site-recovery).
compatibility: Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation.
metadata:
  generated_at: "2026-07-19"
  generator: "docs2skills/1.0.0"

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-L73 | Patterns and guidance for designing highly available, resilient, and disaster‑ready architectures across many Azure services (AKS, databases, networking, messaging, monitoring, and more). | | Decision Making | L74-L83 | Guidance on choosing Azure regions and services (regional, zonal, multiregion, nonregional), using region pairs, and designing multi-region architectures for higher reliability. | | Architecture & Design Patterns | L84-L89 | 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. | | Limits & Quotas | L90-L94 | 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 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 | | 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 | | 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 backup strategies with Azure Backup | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-backup | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | Ensure reliability for Azure Device Registry metadata | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-device-registry | | Design resilient architectures for Azure DNS Private Resolver | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-dns-private-resolver | | Design high availability for Azure DocumentDB | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-documentdb | | Implement resilient architectures with Azure Elastic SAN | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-elastic-san | | Implement resilient architectures with Azure Elastic SAN | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-elastic-san | | Build resilient architectures with Azure Event Grid | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reli