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

• Azure SQL AI Development
• Microsoft Ignite Sessions

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.