Question

A retail company is deploying a customer-facing Copilot Studio agent that processes order status requests by calling several external inventory and shipping connectors. During a design review, stakeholders raise concerns that occasional connector timeouts cause the agent to return incomplete responses, and that a spike in traffic during promotions could overwhelm downstream systems. As the solutions architect, you are asked to align the design with the Power Platform Well-Architected Framework. Which pillar and associated design practice most directly addresses these concerns?

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The Reliability pillar — implement retry logic with graceful degradation and throttling so the agent handles transient connector failures and traffic spikes predictably

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The Security pillar — apply data loss prevention policies and least-privilege connector permissions to protect the inventory data

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The Experience Optimization pillar — refine the agent's conversational topics and prompt phrasing to improve user comprehension

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The Operational Excellence pillar — establish ALM pipelines and automated deployment so the agent can be released across environments consistently