Azure is awesome! You provision your infrastructure, deploy your system and everything runs smoothly until one day, when suddenly there is an outage at one of the Azure services, data centers or regions.

This session will introduce you to the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery concepts. You will learn what availability requirements are, how to design for failure, what kind of deployment topologies and strategies exist and what Disaster Recovery options are available on Azure.

This talk is rated level 200-300 with a target audience of developers and architects. Even though the main focus is on Azure, some of the principles and techniques are still applicable for those of you who are hosting your systems on-premises or use other cloud providers.

The presentation advocates the use of automation, immutable infrastructure as code and DevOps.