How well a system bounces back from failures and keeps running. It is a cloud benefit and also a pillar of the Azure Well-Architected Framework, which has five in total.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Reliability in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
- Azure Well-Architected Framework
A set of Microsoft design guidance aimed at raising the quality of a workload. Its five pillars cover reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence and the efficiency of performance.
Related terms
- Azure Advisor
Azure service that reviews resources you already run and recommends improvements in cost, performance, reliability and security based on best practice.
- Azure ExpressRoute
A private link, arranged with a connectivity provider, between an on-premises network and Microsoft's cloud that avoids the public internet. Compared with a VPN it offers better reliability, higher speeds and steadier latency.
- Concern
Something about a system, such as its security, reliability or performance, that is important to at least one stakeholder.
- Device timeline
Replacing the application reliability report, this Advanced Analytics view lists one device's boots, sign-ins, crashes, hangs and anomalies with very little delay.
- Endpoint analytics
Scores devices in Intune on Work from anywhere readiness, app reliability and how fast they start up. An overall weighted score is shown once at least five devices are reporting.
- Microsoft Responsible AI Standard
Microsoft's guidance for developing AI systems, organised around six principles: accountability, transparency, inclusiveness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, and fairness.
- Privacy and security principle
Responsible AI principle requiring that business and personal data be protected through notice, consent and limited access. Handling unusual inputs belongs instead to reliability and safety.
- SLO
A reliability goal that a customer sets internally for its own workload. SLAs feed into it but are not a substitute for it.