Reliability guidance overview
Azure reliability guidance contains the following:
Service-specific reliability guides. Each guide can cover both intra-regional resiliency with availability zones and information on cross-region resiliency with disaster recovery. For a more detailed overview of reliability principles in Azure, see Reliability in Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework.
Azure Service Manager (ASM) Retirement guides. ASM is the old control plane of Azure responsible for creating, managing, deleting VMs and performing other control plane operations, and has been in use since 2011. ASM is retiring in August 2024, and customers can now migrate to Azure Resource Manager (ARM). ARM provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account. You can use management features like access control, locks, and tags to secure and organize your resources after deployment.
Azure services reliability guides
Foundational services
Mainstream services
Strategic services
Product | Availability zone guide | Disaster recovery guide |
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Azure Databox | Azure Data Box Disk FAQ | |
Azure Health Insights | Reliability in Azure Health Insights | Reliability in Azure Health Insights |
Azure IoT Hub | IoT Hub high availability and disaster recovery | IoT Hub high availability and disaster recovery |
Azure Machine Learning Service | Failover for business continuity and disaster recovery | |
Azure SignalR Service | Resiliency and disaster recovery in Azure SignalR Service | |
Microsoft Purview | Reliability for Microsoft Purview | Disaster recovery for Microsoft Purview |
Non-regional services (always-available services)
Product | Availability zone guide | Disaster recovery guide |
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Azure Traffic Manager | Reliability in Azure Traffic Manager | Reliability in Azure Traffic Manager |
Azure Service Manager Retirement
Azure Service Manager (ASM) is the old control plane of Azure responsible for creating, managing, deleting VMs and performing other control plane operations, and has been in use since 2011. ASM is retiring in August 2024, and customers can now migrate to Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
For more information on specific retirement dates and migration documentation, see Azure Service Manager Retirement.