What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform provided by Microsoft. It provides lots of services including Platform as a services (PaaS) & Infrastructure as a services(IaaS) to manages your business needs and running IT infrastructure smoothly.

Azure Regions

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Azure Services by Category:

Compute

• Virtual machines

  Microsoft Azure allow you to create virtual machine of Windows or Linux.

  Virtual machine(VM) is a software emulator of physical computer. It will provide you virtual CPU, storage, processor, networking resources. You have full control just like a physical computer.

• Container instances

  Container instances allow you to run containerised app on Azure without creating servers or virtual machines.

• App Services

• Function Apps

  Function app is serverless that allow you to execute event-driven basis

Networking

• Virtual networks

  Allow you to connect virtual machines to incoming virtual private network

• Load balancers

  Load balancers allow to balance inbound & outbound connection to application(service endpoints)

• DNS zones

Storage

• Blob storage

• File storages

• Queue storage

Web

• App services

  Allow you to create cloud based web app

• Notification hubs

  Allow you to send push notification from back-end

• API management services

  Allow to publish APIs & scale it

Database

• SQL Databases

• SQL Server

• Azure Cosmo DB

• Azure Cache for Redis

Analytics

• Azure Databricks

• HDInsight clusters

DevOps

• Azure DevOps

• DevTest Labs

AL+ML

• BOT services

• Machine Learnings

IoT

• IoT Hub

• IoT Central Applications

Integration

• Logic Apps

• Service Bus

Identiy

• Azure Active Directory

• Azure AD B2C

Security

• Security Center

• Key Vaults

Mobile