This document presents a talk on protecting from transient failures in Microsoft Azure cloud deployments. It discusses using the AURA tool to deploy applications to the Azure cloud and detect and recover from transient failures. The talk outlines Azure services including virtual machines, storage, networking, databases, analytics, machine learning and more. It then discusses using AURA's deployment graph and executors to monitor deployments. The talk presents strategies for retrying failed deployments, including various backoff approaches, and selecting exponential backoff to optimize recovery from transient failures.