Context: Without a customizable checklist for evaluating reliability, resiliency, and failure recovery strategies in Power Platform architecture design, enterprises may face increased risks of system failures and data loss. The lack of a structured evaluation process can lead to inconsistent implementation of best practices, resulting in reduced system performance and reliability. Additionally, recovery from failures may be slower and less effective, impacting business continuity and operational efficiency. Overall, the absence of such a checklist can compromise the robustness and dependability of the Power Platform architecture.

Solution: The customizable Reliability checklist, adopted from Well-Architected Framework, helps ensure reliability, identify the best infrastructure and application design for your workload. The Architects can make decisions and tradeoffs based on business requirements that are mapped to availability and recoverability target metrics. This checklist helps make workload reliability a central consideration at every stage of the workload design, development, and operation lifecycle.

Impact: A reliable workload will be resilient so that it can detect and recover from outages and malfunctions and consistently deliver functionality. It will be capable of recovering from failures within a reasonable timeframe. It will also be available so that users can consistently and reliably access the workload during the agreed timeframe and at the agreed quality level.