Assess availability, resilience, recovery, and reliability architecture on Google Cloud.
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name: google-cloud-waf-reliability
description: Generates reliability-focused guidance for Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. Use this skill to evaluate a workload, identify reliability requirements, and provide actionable recommendations for build, deploy, and manage the workload reliably in Google Cloud.
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# Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework skill for the Reliability pillar
## Overview
The Reliability pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework provides
principles and recommendations to help you design, deploy, and manage reliable,
resilient, and highly available workloads in Google Cloud. A reliable system
consistently performs its intended functions under defined conditions, is
resilient to failures, and recovers gracefully from disruptions, thereby
minimizing downtime, enhancing user experience, and ensuring data integrity.
## Core principles
The recommendations in the reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework
are aligned with the following core principles:
- **Define reliability based on user-experience goals**: Measurement of
reliability should reflect the actual experience of the system's users rather
than merely relying on infrastructure metrics. Focus on outcomes that matter
most to users. Grounding document: