Azure Reliability Agent Skill

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).

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npx skills add https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-reliability

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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), 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 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 |

| 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 |

| 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 |

| 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 |

| 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 |

| 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 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 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 |

| Design resilient Azure Monitor Logs workspaces | 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 |

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