Microsoft Events presents an Ignite session led by Gargi Banerjee and Molina Sharma, focusing on designing resilient, secure, and AI-ready cloud solutions with Azure through practical strategies and live demos.

Resilience by Design: Secure, Scalable, AI-Ready Cloud with Azure

Speakers: Gargi Banerjee, Molina Sharma
Session: Microsoft Ignite 2025 | BRK217 | Advanced (Level 300)

Overview

Resiliency is central to building trusted cloud solutions on Azure. This session covers the following topics:

  • The foundational importance of trust, security, and quality in cloud architecture
  • Treating resiliency as both a strategic advantage and a partnership
  • Azure’s framework for resiliency, including infrastructure best practices
  • Setting resilience goals and simulating failures to orchestrate robust recovery processes

Key Concepts

1. Strategic Advantage of Resiliency

  • Resiliency supports secure, scalable, and AI-ready architectures
  • Trust and quality are core values for every cloud deployment

2. Azure Resiliency Deep Dive

  • Framework for designing resilient solutions on Azure
  • Principles include redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery

3. Infrastructure Resiliency

  • Ensuring infrastructure can withstand outages and recover quickly
  • Example: Contoso Mart outage, demonstrating the need for robust recovery solutions

4. Four-Step Resiliency Journey

  • View: Analyze current architecture for resiliency
  • Assess: Identify gaps and risks in existing setup
  • Improve: Implement changes to increase resilience
  • Validate: Test recovery and validate improvement

5. Live Demonstrations

  • Setting up VM backups in Recovery Services vault
  • Initiating threat detection for backups

6. Shared Responsibility

  • Teams play a vital role in ensuring resilience
  • Azure enables shared responsibility for secure and trusted outcomes

Additional Resources

Takeaways

Attendees will learn how to set resilience goals, simulate and recover from failures, and leverage Azure’s built-in features to create secure, AI-ready infrastructure.

Session Information

  • Level: Advanced (300)
  • Language: English (US)
  • Format: Breakout with live demonstrations

Chapters

  • 00:00 - The Importance of Trust, Security, and Quality as Core Values
  • 09:29 - Resiliency as a Strategic Advantage and Partnership
  • 10:25 - Azure Resiliency Deep Dive
  • 12:32 - Concept and Framework of Resiliency in Azure
  • 14:12 - Infrastructure Resiliency Overview
  • 22:27 - Contoso Mart Outage Use Case
  • 24:08 - Four-Step Resiliency Journey
  • 31:55 - VM Backup in Recovery Services Vault
  • 32:26 - Threat Detection for Backups

For further learning, check the provided resources or explore additional Microsoft Ignite sessions.