How to build a reliable & resilient cloud strategy in Microsoft Azure?

The digital landscape is changing more rapidly than ever before. So, creating a resilient and flexible cloud infrastructure is key to staying ahead of the game. But where do you even start? With the Azure Resiliency Strategy, powered by the Well-Architected framework, you lay a solid foundation for high availability and disaster recovery. Want to find out how it works exactly? Let’s dive right in.

What is the Azure Well-Architected Framework?

Microsoft has developed an extensive framework to help you and your organization achieve resilience and flexibility in Azure. It provides you with a clear set of guiding principles and best practices for reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective infrastructure design and operations in the cloud. But how does it work?

Let’s start with your workload, a collection of application resources, data, ​and supporting infrastructure that operates together towards a defined business goal. Using the Well-Architected Framework, you can maximize the value of your design choices, by aligning them with the 5 core pillars:

By focusing on these principles and the best practices from the framework, you’re free to design, deploy, and configure flexible and resilient solutions that align with your organization's business needs.

How does resilience improve your business?

Resilience ensures high availability and smooth disaster recovery, minimizing downtime for mission-critical solutions. It provides robust data protection and backup, safeguarding your business operations. And with Azure's scalable infrastructure, you can maintain performance and reliability even during peak demand. All to improve your flexibility in the cloud.

A resilient cloud, Arxus-style

Our offering assists you in creating awareness and in understanding your business-critical solutions, by talking to the stakeholders, defining the workload(s) for the assessment and discussing the impact and changes needed.

By leveraging the Well-Architected Framework, together with our expert advice and cloud experience, you can enhance the security and resilience of your systems. And with the necessary documentation and an extensive assessment report, we can support your organization to start making your solutions more resilient in the cloud.

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.

Need help creating resilience in Azure?

Get in touch with one of our architects. They’ll gladly guide your organization in building a more resilient environment in Azure for your business-critical solutions.