The digital landscape is changing faster than ever before. Creating a resilient and reliable cloud infrastructure is therefore essential to stay ahead of your competitors. But how do you start? With the Azure Resiliency Strategy, based on the Well-Architected framework, you lay a solid foundation for high availability and disaster recovery. Curious about how it works exactly? Let's dive right in.
Thu, 27 February 2025
Microsoft has developed an extensive framework to help you and your organization work more resiliently and flexibly in Azure. It provides clear guidelines and best practices to make your operations and infrastructure in the cloud reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective. But how does it actually work?
Let's start with your workload: the collection of app resources, data, and supporting infrastructure that work together towards the same business goal. By using the Well-Architected Framework, you can make the most of your design choices by aligning them with the 5 pillars of the framework:
Guarantee the uptime and recovery targets of your workload by ensuring redundancy and resilience at scale.
Ensure the integrity and confidentiality of your data by protecting your workload(s) from cyber attacks.
Use FinOps principles to keep your architectural, tactical, and organizational spending within budget.
Make use of extensive monitoring and process automation to reduce issues in production.
Make adjustments to your workloads by scaling them horizontally and testing them before deploying to production.
By focusing on these principles and following the best practices from the framework, you can freely design, implement, and configure flexible and reliable solutions that meet the needs of your enterprise.
Resilience ensures high availability and a smooth disaster recovery, thereby minimizing downtime for critical applications. It provides robust data protection and backup, ensuring your business operations remain secure. And thanks to Azure's scalable infrastructure, you can maintain performance and reliability, even during peak times. All to enhance your flexibility in the cloud.
Our offering helps you to create awareness and to gain insight into your business-critical systems, by talking with stakeholders, determining the workload(s) for the assessment, and by discussing the impact and necessary changes.
By using the Well-Architected Framework, in combination with our expert advice and cloud experience, you can optimize the security and resilience of your systems. And based on the necessary documentation and our comprehensive assessment report, we can make your organization and your cloud solutions more resilient.
Our Azure Advise service plays a crucial role in the Resilience Strategy. It provides personalized recommendations to help your organization optimize its Azure resources for reliability, security, performance, and cost. These recommendations are based on best practices and insights derived from Microsoft's (and our own) experience in managing cloud services. By following these recommendations, you can proactively address potential vulnerabilities and improve the overall resilience of your company’s systems.
Reach out to one of our architects. They will be happy to provide you with the advice you need. And they will gladly help you build a more resilient environment in Azure for your business-critical solutions.
