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Architecture
Azure Backup and Site Recovery: A Practical DR Guide
How Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery deliver disaster recovery: backup vs DR, setting RTO and RPO, recovery plans, and non-disruptive test failover.
9 min read
Azure business continuity guides
The evergreen playbooks behind our outage analyses - how to plan so the next regional event is a controlled failover, not an incident bridge with the board on it.
Architecture
Azure Identity Resilience: Surviving an Entra ID Outage
Why Microsoft Entra ID is your most critical dependency and how to survive an identity outage with break-glass accounts and backup authentication.
9 min read
Architecture
Azure Front Door vs Traffic Manager: Global Routing and Failover
When to use Azure Front Door vs Traffic Manager for global routing and failover: DNS vs anycast, health probes, routing methods, and combining both.
9 min read
Architecture
Azure Multi-Region Failover: Active-Passive and Active-Active
Design multi-region failover on Azure: active-passive vs active-active, data replication and consistency, health probes, and the RTO/RPO trade-offs.
10 min read
Architecture
Azure Region Pairs & Availability Zones Explained
What availability zones protect you from, what only region pairs can, why some newer Azure regions ship without a pair, and how to choose the right geographic resilience strategy per workload - grounded in real Azure incidents.
10 min read
Business continuity
Business Continuity Planning for Azure: The Complete Hub
A practical BCP framework for Azure: business impact analysis, RTO/RPO tiering, Azure’s resilience primitives (zones, region pairs, Site Recovery, Backup), the compliance drivers (ISO 22301, DORA, SOC 2), and the identity single-point-of-failure most plans miss.
13 min read