Azure Resiliency with Chris Ayers

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