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Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved

Cloud resiliency is about ensuring systems can adapt, recover, and keep functioning within real-world constraints. The post Built to bounce back: How Azure resiliency evolved appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

BY Rochak Mittal, Amit Ganguli, Surya Sripathi Raju and Molina Sharma
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Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus
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Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus

Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.

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Full request and response compliance logging on Amazon EKS
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Full request and response compliance logging on Amazon EKS

In this post, we demonstrate how to use Envoy’s External Processing filter (ext_proc) to solve this challenge on Amazon EKS. This solution captures complete request and response data without modifying application code, providing the compliance-grade audit trails that regulators require.

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S&P Global’s innovative disaster recovery strategy using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP snapshots
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S&P Global’s innovative disaster recovery strategy using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP snapshots

In this post, we explain how S&P Global Market Intelligence implemented an innovative disaster recovery solution for their Capital IQ platform using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This solution enables immediate failover to read-only mode in a secondary region within 15 minutes, followed by full read-write recovery when needed. This approach achieves reduction in failover time while maintaining data consistency for global financial operations.

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External key management for Azure Managed HSM is now in public preview
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External key management for Azure Managed HSM is now in public preview

Azure Key Vault Managed Hardware Security Module (HSM) provides strong sovereignty over your encryption keys. Keys are generated and stored in a single-tenant, FIPS 140-3 Level 3 HSM that only you control: Microsoft has no access to your key material, and you govern who can use each key. The post External key management for Azure Managed HSM is now in public preview appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

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Cloudflare proudly joins the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge
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Cloudflare proudly joins the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge

The pledge is a voluntary framework inviting organizations to commit to foundational cyber security governance, board-level accountability, and supply chain rigor. For over a decade, Cloudflare has pioneered the core pillars of this framework: democratizing security, leadership accountability, and radical transparency.

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Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability
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Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability

Learn how Microsoft is building a digital twin of Azure Service Health and why it changes how hyperscale operates. The post Meet Brain: The AI system behind Azure reliability appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

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Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio
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Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio

Azure Chaos Studio helps organizations validate application resilience by simulating outages, failovers, network disruptions, and infrastructure failures before they impact production. The post Proving application resilience on Azure with Chaos Studio appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.

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