Azure with AI AI Prompts
42 free, production-ready Azure with AI AI prompts — copy-paste ready for ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Every prompt ships with fill-in placeholders, a worked example, and production-safety notes, so you get a usable answer on the first try.
- Azure with AI Advanced
AKS Cluster & Node Pool Upgrade Planning Review Prompt
Plan a safe AKS Kubernetes version upgrade by reviewing supported version skew, node pool surge settings, PodDisruptionBudgets, deprecated API usage, and add-on compatibility to sequence a zero-surprise control-plane and node-image upgrade.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure Arc Hybrid Server Onboarding & Governance Review Prompt
Review an Azure Arc-enabled servers deployment for secure onboarding and consistent governance by analyzing Connected Machine agent health, identity and RBAC scope, policy/guest configuration assignments, and extension management across on-prem and multicloud machines.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure Blob Lifecycle & Immutability Policy Review Prompt
Review Azure Storage blob lifecycle management and immutability (WORM) policies to balance cost and compliance by analyzing tiering rules, expiration actions, versioning, soft delete, and time-based retention locks before they silently delete or over-retain data.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure ExpressRoute Circuit & Peering Connectivity Review Prompt
Review an ExpressRoute circuit and its peerings to explain why on-premises to Azure connectivity is failing or asymmetric by analyzing BGP session state, advertised/received routes, gateway SKU limits, and route filters for private and Microsoft peering.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure Front Door WAF Policy Tuning Review Prompt
Review an Azure Front Door / Application Gateway WAF policy to reduce false positives without weakening protection by analyzing managed rule sets, custom rules, rate limits, and blocked-request logs, then recommending scoped exclusions.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
GitHub Actions OIDC to Azure Deployment Review Prompt
Review a GitHub Actions to Azure deployment that uses workload identity federation (OIDC) to eliminate stored secrets, checking federated credential subjects, Entra app permissions, and least-privilege role scope for a secure, non-secret pipeline.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Terraform azurerm IaC Review Prompt
Review Terraform code using the azurerm provider for state safety, drift risk, and secure resource configuration, checking remote state locking, provider/version pinning, sensitive outputs, and lifecycle blocks before a plan reaches production.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
VM Scale Set Autoscale & Orchestration Review Prompt
Review an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set for scaling correctness and resilience by analyzing autoscale rules, orchestration mode, upgrade policy, health probes, and zone balancing to stop flapping, slow scale-out, and unsafe instance replacement.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure VNet Peering & Transit Routing Review Prompt
Review VNet peering topology, gateway transit, and route propagation to explain why traffic between peered or hub-spoke VNets is dropping, and to design correct transitive routing without accidental full-mesh sprawl.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure Container Registry Security and Geo-Replication Review Prompt
Review an Azure Container Registry (ACR) configuration for network isolation, RBAC/token scoping, image signing and vulnerability scanning, retention/purge policy, and geo-replication topology before it backs production AKS clusters.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure Event Hubs Throughput and Partition Scaling Review Prompt
Review an Azure Event Hubs namespace for correct partition count, throughput-unit/processing-unit sizing, consumer-group and checkpoint design, and capture/retention settings before it ingests production event streams at scale.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure Landing Zone Management Group Hierarchy Design Review Prompt
Review an Azure landing zone management group hierarchy for correct policy and RBAC inheritance, subscription placement, and guardrail scoping against the Cloud Adoption Framework before onboarding workloads at scale.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
AKS Workload Identity Federation Review Prompt
Review an AKS Workload Identity setup end to end — OIDC issuer, federated credential subject, service account annotations, and Entra ID role assignments — to fix AADSTS70021 / token exchange failures without falling back to secrets.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure API Management Policy Review Prompt
Review Azure API Management policy XML across the global/product/API/operation scopes for correct inbound/backend/outbound ordering, safe base placement, auth validation, and rate-limit and caching correctness.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure Firewall Hub-Spoke Ruleset Review Prompt
Review an Azure Firewall policy in a hub-spoke topology for correct rule collection ordering, least-privilege application/network/DNAT rules, and forced-tunneling gaps before promoting changes.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
AKS Node Pool & Cluster Autoscaler Capacity Debug Prompt
Diagnose AKS pods stuck Pending or nodes not scaling by correlating scheduler events, node pool config, cluster autoscaler logs, and resource requests to find the capacity, quota, or scheduling constraint blocking placement.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Azure Backup & Site Recovery DR Readiness Review Prompt
Review Azure Backup policies and Site Recovery replication config against stated RPO/RTO and retention requirements to surface unprotected resources, recovery gaps, and failover risks before a real disaster tests them.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Bicep What-If Deployment & Drift Review Prompt
Review the output of an az deployment what-if against a Bicep/ARM template to catch unintended deletes, risky modifications, parameter drift, and configuration changes before a production deployment is applied.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Entra Conditional Access Policy Review Prompt
Review a set of Conditional Access policies for coverage gaps, conflicting grants, risky exclusions, and lockout hazards, and produce a prioritized hardening plan that strengthens access without breaking break-glass accounts.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Defender for Cloud Secure Score Remediation Review Prompt
Triage Microsoft Defender for Cloud recommendations and secure-score controls into a prioritized remediation plan that maximizes score gain and real risk reduction while flagging false positives and exemption candidates.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Entra ID AADSTS Sign-In Failure Debug Prompt
Decode an Entra ID (Azure AD) AADSTS error and sign-in log entry to pinpoint why an authentication is failing — conditional access, consent, token audience, certificate, or clock skew — and produce a ranked, read-only remediation plan.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Azure Load Balancer Health Probe Debug Prompt
Diagnose why backends behind a Standard Load Balancer are marked unhealthy or traffic isn't flowing by correlating probe config, NSG rules, backend pool membership, and outbound/SNAT settings into a ranked root-cause analysis.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure UDR & Hybrid Route Table Connectivity Review Prompt
Review user-defined routes, VNet peering, and forced-tunneling config across a hub-and-spoke topology to find the route that blackholes traffic or bypasses the firewall, and explain the effective-route resolution causing the connectivity break.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Azure VM Right-Sizing & Cost Optimization Review Prompt
Analyze VM utilization metrics, SKU pricing, and reservation/savings-plan coverage to recommend right-sizing, SKU family moves, and commitment purchases that cut compute spend without starving workloads.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Application Gateway & Front Door Routing Debug Prompt
Debug Azure Application Gateway and Front Door routing, health probes, TLS, and WAF behavior when requests 404, 502, or fail TLS, then propose a verified fix.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Azure Container Apps Config & Scaling Review Prompt
Review an Azure Container Apps configuration for scaling rules, ingress, secrets, and revision strategy, then propose a reliable, cost-aware setup with safe rollout.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Cosmos DB Partition Key & Data Modeling Prompt
Design or review an Azure Cosmos DB data model — partition key choice, embedding vs referencing, and indexing — to avoid hot partitions and runaway RU cost.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Azure DevOps Pipeline YAML Review Prompt
Review an Azure DevOps YAML pipeline for security, reliability, and speed — secret handling, service-connection scope, caching, and stage gating — then propose a safer, faster version.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Managed Identity Pattern Review Prompt
Review how an Azure workload authenticates to other services and replace secrets and account keys with the right managed-identity pattern, scoped to least privilege.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Private Endpoint & Private Link DNS Review Prompt
Review Azure Private Endpoint and Private Link setups for the DNS, network, and approval issues that cause silent fallbacks to public endpoints, then propose a verified fix.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Azure Resource Graph Query Builder Prompt
Build Azure Resource Graph (KQL) queries to inventory resources at scale, find misconfigurations across subscriptions, and answer governance questions fast and read-only.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure Service Bus Messaging Debug Prompt
Debug Azure Service Bus issues — dead-letter buildup, lock-duration timeouts, ordering, and duplicate processing — and fix queue/subscription config and consumer logic.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure SQL Performance Tuning Prompt
Diagnose a slow Azure SQL Database from query plans, wait stats, and index usage, then propose tuning — indexes, query rewrites, and the right service tier — with safe rollout.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
AKS Troubleshooting Deep-Dive Prompt
Systematically diagnose AKS issues across networking, workload identity, and pod scheduling by correlating kubectl output with Azure-side configuration.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
App Service & Functions Cold-Start and Failure Debug Prompt
Diagnose slow cold starts, 5xx errors, and startup failures on Azure App Service and Functions using app settings, logs, and platform behavior.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Azure Cost Anomaly & Rightsizing Triage Prompt
Investigate an unexpected Azure cost spike and produce a prioritized rightsizing and cleanup plan grounded in actual Cost Management and Advisor data.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Key Vault Access & Secret-Rotation Review Prompt
Review a Key Vault's access model and secret lifecycle, then propose tighter access, rotation, and monitoring without breaking the apps that depend on it.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Azure Monitor & Log Analytics KQL Query Builder Prompt
Turn a plain-language investigation question into a correct, efficient KQL query against the right Log Analytics tables, with the joins, time windows, and aggregations you actually need.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Azure NSG & VNet Connectivity Debug Prompt
Diagnose why traffic is being dropped between Azure subnets, VNets, or out to the internet by reasoning through NSG rules, effective routes, and peering.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Azure Policy Authoring & Remediation Review Prompt
Author or review an Azure Policy definition and its remediation so it enforces the intended guardrail accurately, with the right effect and a safe rollout.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Advanced
Entra ID & Azure RBAC Least-Privilege Review Prompt
Audit a subscription's role assignments and Entra ID privileged access, then propose tighter, scoped, least-privilege replacements without breaking running workloads.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - Azure with AI Intermediate
Storage Account Security & Access-Tier Review Prompt
Review an Azure Storage account for public-exposure risk, weak access controls, and cost-inefficient tiering, then propose a hardened, right-tiered configuration.
- Claude
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About these Azure with AI AI prompts
This is a free, curated collection of Azure with AI AI prompts for DevOps and platform engineers — prompt templates that turn Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor into a focused Azure with AI assistant. Instead of re-explaining your setup every time, each prompt has fill-in placeholders, a realistic worked example, and explicit safety and back-out notes, so it's safe to use against production Azure with AI.
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