Azure
Monitoring & Diagnostics:
The health, performance, and operations of applications and infrastructure can't be left to chance. Azure's Monitoring & Diagnostics tools ensure that every component of an application, from code to infrastructure, is under scrutiny. Azure Monitor provides full-stack monitoring, while Azure Application Insights offers insights into applications' performance and user interactions. For those looking to monitor the health and performance of networks, Azure Network Watcher fills the gap.an deploy Windoes or Linux virtual machines in minutes and scale them up or down as the needs change.
Databases: Azure's database services cater to various data management needs. Azure SQL Database is a managed version of SQL Server in the cloud, offering scalability and built-in intelligence. Cosmos DB is designed for globally distributed applications, providing multi-model, multi-region NoSQL capabilities. Azure also supports open-source RDBMS solutions, offering fully managed instances of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
Networking: Networking in Azure ensures secure and efficient communication between resources. With Virtual Network, users can set up private networks, connecting different Azure services or linking to on-premises infrastructures. Load Balancer distributes incoming traffic across multiple resources to maintain application responsiveness. VPN Gateway is essential for setting up secure site-to-site connections, ensuring seamless workflows between Azure and on-premises data centers.
AI + Machine Learning: Azure's AI and Machine Learning services empower developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models. Azure Machine Learning Service is a more comprehensive service for the entire machine learning lifecycle. In contrast, Cognitive Services offers pre-built solutions for common AI tasks like vision and speech recognition.
Storage: Azure provides a variety of data storage solutions. Depending on the kind of data and its intended use, you can select from Blob Storage (object storage ideal for multimedia), Disk Storage (for VMs), File Storage (file shares accessible via the cloud), and more. These options ensure you have flexibility in terms of cost, performance, and scalability.
Internet of Things (IoT): Azure's IoT services allow for the collection, analysis, and actions on data from physical devices. Whether you're managing a fleet of trucks, a building's HVAC system, or smart city infrastructure, Azure provides tools to collect, interpret, and act on this data.
DevOps / Developer Tools: Azure boasts a suite of tools for developers. Azure DevOps Services facilitates the entire software lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, and monitoring. Azure DevTest Labs is a sandbox environment, letting developers test without impacting production.
Azure is continually evolving, and the above descriptions capture the core essence of each category, but always refer to official Azure documentation for the latest features and updates.
Azure IT & Management Tools:
Azure's IT & Management tools are crafted to provide IT professionals with everything they need to manage resources, automate tasks, and enforce policies. With tools like Azure Advisor and Azure Automation, repetitive tasks are simplified, best practices are highlighted, and operations are streamlined. Azure Policy and Azure Blueprints ensure that the organization's standards are consistently applied across resources, ensuring compliance and governance.ulatory compliance, and automate frequent tasks.
Web: Azure has robust offerings for web applications. The Azure SignalR Service enhances apps with real-time web functionalities. Meanwhile, the Content Delivery Network (CDN) ensures users receive content from the nearest point, minimizing latencies.
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Azure Databases
Azure Storage
Azure AI + Machine Learning
Azure Internet of Things (IoT)
Azure DevOps & Development Tools
Azure Web
Azure Networking
Analytics: Azure offers tools to extract insights from data. Azure HDInsight makes big data analytics straightforward, incorporating popular open-source frameworks. Azure Synapse Analytics, formerly SQL Data Warehouse, is an analytics service that unifies big data and data warehousing.
Azure Analytics
Migration: Transitioning to Azure is facilitated by its migration tools. Azure Migrate offers insights and tools to migrate on-premises workloads seamlessly. For disaster resilience, Azure Site Recovery replicates workloads, ensuring you can switch over during outages.
Azure Migration & Recovery
Integration: Azure ensures seamless operations across diverse systems. Azure Logic Apps provides a visual designer to help automate workflows and connect data, apps, and devices. Service Bus is a robust message broker service ensuring smooth communication between applications and services.
Azure Integration
Containers: Azure's container solutions are designed for the modern development world where containerization is key. Container technologies encapsulate an application in a container with its own environment, which can be consistently deployed across various stages. Azure offers services that not only support containerized deployments, like Docker but also orchestration tools like Kubernetes for managing complex, multi-container setups. Whether it's the individual container deployments using Azure Container Instances or orchestrated deployments with Azure Kubernetes Service, this category ensures applications are scalable, manageable, and consistently deployable.
Identity: In today's interconnected digital realm, identity management and security are paramount. Azure Identity solutions, led by Azure Active Directory, provide robust tools to manage users, devices, and resources. It not only supports enterprise users but also caters to consumer identities with Azure AD B2C. By offering features like multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and conditional access policies, Azure ensures that identities are secure, manageable, and seamlessly integrated across services.
Media: With the exponential growth of multimedia content, Azure Media services provide tools to manage, distribute, and analyze video and audio content. Azure Media Services, for instance, allows for live streaming, content protection, and on-demand streaming, ensuring content is delivered with high fidelity. Services like Azure Video Analyzer leverage AI to extract insights and metadata from video content, adding a layer of intelligence to media management.
Mixed Reality: The merging of real and virtual worlds, mixed reality provides immersive experiences. Azure's Mixed Reality tools cater to the creation, deployment, and management of augmented and virtual reality solutions. Azure Remote Rendering, for instance, pushes the boundaries by rendering high-quality 3D content in real-time. Meanwhile, Azure Spatial Anchors allows developers to design multi-user, spatially aware mixed reality experiences.
Azure Containers
Azure Monitoring & Diagnostics
Azure Media
Azure Identity
Azure IT & Management Tools
Compute: Microsoft Azure's compute offerings provide scalable processing power to handle both small and large workloads. Virtual Machines (VMs) offer a traditional way to run applications on virtualized infrastructure, letting you choose the operating system and resources. With Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), you can manage containerized applications using Kubernetes, without the overhead of maintaining the Kubernetes control plane. Azure Functions is a serverless solution where you only worry about your code; Azure handles the infrastructure, scaling in response to demand. Azure App Service lets you easily deploy web applications, RESTful APIs, and mobile backends with fully managed platforms and developer-friendly tools.
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Azure Compute
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Virtual Machines: Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform that allows you to run virtualized Windows or Linux servers in the cloud.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Managed Kubernetes container orchestration service.
Azure Functions: Serverless compute service that auto-scales based on demand and allows you to run code in response to events.
Azure App Service: Platform-as-a-Service for hosting web apps, RESTful APIs, and mobile app backends.
Azure Batch: Cloud-based job scheduling service with parallel computing capabilities.
Azure Container Instances: Allows for fast deployment of containers without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure.
Azure Storage: Massively scalable cloud storage solution.
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Blob Storage: Object storage service for text and binary data.
File Storage: Managed file shares for cloud or on-premises deployments.
Queue Storage: Message queue service for communication between application components.
Table Storage: NoSQL datastore for semi-structured data.
Disk Storage: Block-level storage volumes for Azure VMs.
Data Lake Storage: Scalable and secure data lake allowing you to run big data analytics.
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Azure SQL Database: Managed relational database service based on SQL Server.
Azure Cosmos DB: Globally distributed NoSQL database service for large-scale applications.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL: Managed PostgreSQL relational database service.
Azure Database for MySQL: Managed MySQL relational database service.
Database for MariaDB: Managed MariaDB relational database service.
Azure Cache for Redis: Managed Redis cache service to improve performance of your applications.
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Virtual Network: Privately isolated section in the Azure cloud to securely host resources.
Load Balancer: Distributes incoming traffic across multiple VMs.
VPN Gateway: Connects on-premises data centers to Azure.
Application Gateway: Application level (Layer 7) load balancer.
Azure DNS: Domain hosting and DNS service.
Content Delivery Network (CDN): Globally distributed network to serve content to users from nearest data centers.
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Azure Machine Learning: End-to-end platform to build, train, and deploy machine learning models.
Azure Cognitive Services: Suite of AI services and cognitive APIs to build intelligent apps.
Azure Bot Service: Develop, test, and deploy AI-powered bots.
Azure Databricks: Apache Spark-based analytics platform.
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IoT Hub: Central message hub for bi-directional communication between IoT applications and devices it manages.
IoT Central: IoT software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.
Azure Digital Twins: Digital representation of real-world environments and objects.
Azure Sphere: Secure and connected microcontroller unit (MCU) for IoT solutions.
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Azure Active Directory: Identity and access management service.
Azure Active Directory B2C: Identity management service for customer-facing apps.
Azure Key Vault: Safeguard cryptographic keys and secrets used by apps and services.
Azure App Service: Host web apps, mobile app backends, RESTful APIs.
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Azure DevOps: Suite of development collaboration tools including CI/CD, repositories, and more.
Azure DevTest Labs: Service for developers and testers to create environments in Azure.
Visual Studio: IDE for developers to write, test, and deploy their applications.
Visual Studio Code: Lightweight code editor.
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Azure Migrate: Toolkit for cloud migration assessment and workload migration.
Azure Site Recovery: Disaster recovery service.
Azure Backup: Backup service to protect your data.
Azure Media Services: Cloud-based media workflow platform to index, package, protect, and stream video.
Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN): Deliver high-bandwidth content to users globally.
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Azure Logic Apps: Service to automate workflows and integrate services, apps, and data.
Azure Service Bus: Messaging service between applications and services.
Azure API Management: Service for publishing APIs to external and internal customers.
Event Grid: Event routing service.
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Azure HDInsight: Cloud-based analytics service with support for Hadoop, Spark, and more.
Azure Synapse Analytics: Analytics service bringing together big data and data warehousing.
Azure Stream Analytics: Real-time data stream processing.
Azure Data Explorer: Fast data exploration service.
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Managed Kubernetes service making it easier to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes.
Azure Container Instances (ACI): Fastest way to run a container in Azure, without the need to provision any virtual machines or adopt any higher-level services.
Azure Container Registry: A private registry for Docker container images, enhancing container-based tasks in Azure.
Azure Container Apps: A serverless container service which runs and scales apps without infrastructure management.
Azure SignalR Service: Real-time web functionalities.
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Azure Advisor: Personalized cloud consultant that helps you to follow best practices.
Azure Automation: Service for automating frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks.
Azure Policy: Implement corporate governance and standards at scale for Azure resources.
Azure Blueprints: Orchestrate the deployment of various resource templates and other artifacts like role assignments, policy assignments, etc.
Azure Mixed Reality
Azure Remote Rendering: Render high-quality 3D content and stream to mixed reality devices.
Azure Spatial Anchors: Cross-platform, cloud-based service that helps AR apps to map, persist, and share 3D content.
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Azure Monitor: Full-stack monitoring, performance, and application health data via logs and telemetry.
Azure Application Insights: Tool for monitoring your app's performance in real time.
Azure Log Analytics: Service to monitor, diagnose, and gain operational insights from multi-cloud environments.
Azure Network Watcher: Network performance monitoring and diagnostic service.
Blockchain: Azure Blockchain is Microsoft's initiative to provide tools and services that make the development, governance, and operation of a multi-member consortium easier.
Azure Blockchain
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Azure Blockchain Service: This is a fully managed ledger service that allows users to grow and operate blockchain networks at scale in Azure. It provides built-in consortium management capabilities and offers the ability to build applications on top with confidentiality, scalability, and governance features.
Azure Blockchain Workbench: This streamlines the process of developing, testing, and deploying blockchain applications. It provides pre-built networking and infrastructure components, as well as integrations to popular tools, saving developers time.
Azure Blockchain Tokens: Azure Blockchain Tokens simplify the definition, creation, and management of compliant tokens built to industry standards.
Azure Blockchain Data Manager: A service that captures blockchain ledger data, transforms and decrypts it if it’s encrypted, and then delivers it to multiple sources, like databases, event grids, or Azure Data Lakes.
Azure Blockchain Development Kit: This extends the capabilities of Microsoft's sources for developers (like Visual Studio Code) by delivering Azure services for blockchain. It integrates Azure Blockchain Service with Azure DevOps for CI/CD, enabling a DevOps environment for smart contract and blockchain app development.
Security: Azure Security refers to Microsoft Azure's suite of tools and services dedicated to ensuring data protection, threat mitigation, and secure resource management. It offers layered protection across Azure's infrastructure, employing advanced technologies like machine learning to detect threats. These tools aim to provide businesses with a secure cloud environment, safeguarding data and operations without compromising functionality or user experience.
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Azure Security Center: As a unified infrastructure security management system, it provides a broad overview and actionable recommendations to bolster security across various Azure resources.
Azure Sentinel: Being a SIEM and SOAR solution, it's pivotal for enterprise-wide security analytics and threat intelligence.
Azure Key Vault: Safeguarding sensitive information like API keys, passwords, and certificates is fundamental, making Key Vault crucial for secure operations.
Azure DDoS Protection: With the rise in DDoS attacks, this service is vital to ensure application availability and resilience.
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication: Given the increasing threats to user credentials, adding an additional layer of authentication is paramount for secure access.
Azure Information Protection: Data leaks can be catastrophic. This tool's ability to classify, label, and protect sensitive data can be instrumental in preventing unintentional exposure.