A reliability goal that a customer sets internally for its own workload. SLAs feed into it but are not a substitute for it.
Also called service-level objective.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains SLO in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Reliability
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.
- Workload
Also called an experience: a Fabric toolset aimed at one job role, e.g. Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence or Power BI. Each keeps its data in OneLake.
- Azure Artifacts feed
Holds packages (Cargo, Universal, Python, Maven, npm, NuGet) in Artifacts; it belongs to a project or the organisation and supports views, feed roles and upstreams.