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5. Design for Resiliency in Azure

Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan1 
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

Resilient environments are built by design for withstanding outages and hardware/software component failures. In Microsoft Azure, this is a joint responsibility where customers should leverage the platform features in their architecture to build a resilient environment. This chapter focuses on the distinctive features/components of Azure IaaS that build a resilient architecture.

Storage Layer Resiliency

VHDs used by VMs reside in back-end storage while using managed disks or unmanaged disks. Managed disks are recommended for

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