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azure-reliability

Expert knowledge for Azure Reliability development including best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, and deployment. Use when designing AZ/multi-region apps, MySQL Flexible Server HA, resilient Functions, or Azure Queue Storage limits, 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).

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SKILL.md

Azure Reliability Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Reliability. Covers best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, and deployment. 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

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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 L33-L65 Patterns and guidance to design, configure, and harden high‑availability, disaster recovery, and fault‑tolerant architectures for specific Azure services and workloads
Decision Making L66-L70 Guidance on using availability zones, nonregional services, and resilient Azure Functions architectures to design highly available, fault-tolerant Azure solutions.
Architecture & Design Patterns L71-L77 Designing zone-resilient and zonal workloads, hardening deployments for availability zones, and architecting multi-region solutions (including non‑paired regions) for high reliability.
Limits & Quotas L78-L82 Details on Azure Queue Storage message size limits, including max message size, behavior when limits are exceeded, and best practices for handling large payloads.
Deployment L83-L87 Guidance on deploying Azure services and MySQL Flexible Server with availability zones, including configuring zone-redundant high availability and migration to zone-resilient setups.

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
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
Plan reliability for Azure Bot Service https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-bot
Configure reliability for Azure Chaos Studio https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-chaos-studio
Achieve high availability in Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-cosmos-db-nosql
Design resilient Azure Data Explorer deployments https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-data-explorer
Harden Azure Data Factory for outages https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-data-factory
Implement high availability 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 high availability for Azure DocumentDB https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-documentdb
Build resilient architectures with Azure Event Grid https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-event-grid
Increase reliability of Azure Event Hubs streaming https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-event-hubs
Design reliable analytics with Microsoft Fabric https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-fabric
Implement resilient architectures with Azure Functions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-functions
Implement resilient architectures with Azure Functions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-functions
Implement disaster recovery for Azure Image Builder https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-image-builder
Design resilient device connectivity with Azure IoT Hub https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-iot-hub
Design resilient architectures with Azure Load Balancer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-load-balancer
Design resilient architectures with Azure Load Balancer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-load-balancer
Design resilient workflows with Azure Logic Apps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-logic-apps
Increase reliability of Azure Managed Redis caches https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-managed-redis
Improve reliability of Azure Notification Hubs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-notification-hubs
Design resilient disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-site-recovery
Implement resilient architectures in Azure SQL Database https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-sql-database
Increase reliability of Azure Stream Analytics jobs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-stream-analytics
Plan high availability in Azure VMware Solution https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-vmware-solution

Decision Making

Topic URL
Select and understand Azure nonregional services https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-nonregional-services

Architecture & Design Patterns

Topic URL
Enable and plan zone-resilient Azure workloads https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-enable-zone-resiliency
Design and harden zonal Azure resource deployments https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-zonal-resource-resiliency
Architect multi-region solutions in nonpaired Azure regions https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-multi-region-nonpaired

Limits & Quotas

Topic URL
Understand Azure Queue Storage message size limits https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-storage-queue

Deployment

Topic URL
Use Azure services with availability zone support https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-service-support
Migrate MySQL Flexible Server to zone-redundant HA https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/migrate-database-mysql-flex

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