azure-reliability - SKILL.md Agent Skill

name: azure-reliability description: Expert knowledge for Azure Reliability development including best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, and limits & quotas. Use when choosing Azure regions/zones, AKS/DB/queue designs, Web PubSub scaling, or DR/failover architectures, 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 Sre Agent (use azure-sre-agent). compatibility: Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation. metadata: generated_at: "2026-06-21" 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

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 to design, configure, and harden Azure services (AKS, DBs, networking, messaging, backup, monitoring) for high availability, failover, and disaster recovery.
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 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 Azure Elastic SAN deployments and recovery	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/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
Design reliable and resilient Azure Functions workloads	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-functions
Design reliable and resilient Azure Functions workloads	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 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
Improve reliability of Azure Managed Grafana workspaces	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-managed-grafana
Increase reliability of Azure Managed Redis caches	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-managed-redis
Implement resilient logging with Azure Monitor Logs	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-monitor-logs
Improve reliability of Azure Notification Hubs	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-notification-hubs
Harden Azure Private Link Service for high reliability	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-private-link-service
Increase reliability of Azure Stream Analytics jobs	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-stream-analytics
Design resilient architectures with Azure Traffic Manager	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-traffic-manager
Design resilient workloads on Azure VMware Solution	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-vmware-solution

Decision Making

Topic	URL
Choose Azure services by region type and category	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-service-by-category
Choose Azure services with availability zone support	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/availability-zones-service-support
Select Azure regions with geography and pairing data	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-list
Design multi-region solutions in nonpaired Azure regions	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-multi-region-nonpaired
Select Azure services with built-in multiregion support	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-multiregion-support
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

Limits & Quotas

Topic	URL
Understand Azure Queue Storage message size limits	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-storage-queue
Plan reliability and scale for Azure Web PubSub	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/reliability-web-pubsub