Azure Services Flashcards
Scaling for Windows or Linux VMs hosted in Azure
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Enables management of a cluster of VMs that run containerized services
Azure Kubernetes Service
Distributed systems platform. Runs in Azure or on-premises
Azure Service Fabric
Managed service for parallel and high-performance computing applications
Azure Batch
Run containerized apps on Azure without provisioning servers or VMs
Azure Container Instances
An event-driven, serverless compute service
Azure Function
Connects VMs to incoming Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections
Azure Virtual Network
Balances inbound and outbound connections to applications or service endpoints
Azure LB
Optimizes app server farm delivery while increasing application security
Azure Application Gateway
Accesses Azure Virtual Networks through high-performance VPN gateways
Azure VPN Gateway
Provides ultra-fast DNS responses and ultra-high domain availability
Azure DNS
Delivers high-bandwidth content to customers globally
Azure CDN
Protects Azure-hosted applications from distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks
Azure DDoS Protection
Distributes network traffic across Azure regions worldwide
Azure Traffic Manager
Connects to Azure over high-bandwidth dedicated secure connections
Azure ExpressRoute
Monitors and diagnoses network issues using scenario-based analysis
Azure Network Watcher
Implements high-security, high-availability firewall with unlimited scalability
Azure Firewall
Creates a unified wide area network (WAN), connecting local and remote sites
Azure Virtual WAN
Storage service for very large objects, such as video files or bitmaps
Azure Blob storage
File shares that you can access and manage like a file server
Azure File storage
A data store for queuing and reliably delivering messages between applications
Azure Queue storage
A NoSQL store that hosts unstructured data independent of any schema
Azure Table storage
Globally distributed database that supports NoSQL options
Azure Cosmos DB
Fully managed relational database with auto-scale, integral intelligence, and robust security
Azure SQL Database
Fully managed data warehouse with integral security at every level of scale at no extra cost
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Migrates your databases to the cloud with no application code changes
Azure Database Migration Service
Caches frequently used and static data to reduce data and application latency
Azure Cache for Redis
Fully-managed global IoT software as a service (SaaS) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage your IoT assets at scale
IoT Central
Messaging hub that provides secure communications and monitoring between millions of IoT devices
Azure IoT Hub
Push your data analysis models directly onto your IoT devices, allowing them to react quickly to state changes without needing to consult cloud-based AI models.
IoT Edge
Run analytics at a massive scale using a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that leverages massive parallel processing (MPP) to run complex queries quickly across petabytes of data
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Process massive amounts of data with managed clusters of Hadoop clusters in the cloud
Azure HDInsight
Collaborative Apache Spark–based analytics service that can be integrated with other Big Data services in Azure
Azure Databricks (preview)
Cloud-based environment you can use to develop, train, test, deploy, manage, and track machine learning models. It can auto-generate a model and auto-tune it for you. It will let you start training on your local machine, and then scale out to the cloud
Azure Machine Learning Service
Collaborative, drag-and-drop visual workspace where you can build, test, and deploy machine learning solutions using pre-built machine learning algorithms and data-handling modules. Published as web services
Azure Machine Learning Studio
pre-built APIs you can leverage in your applications to solve complex problems.
cognitive services
Image-processing algorithms to smartly identify, caption, index, and moderate your pictures and videos.
Cognitive - vision
Convert spoken audio into text, use voice for verification, or add speaker recognition to your app.
Cognitive - speech
Map complex information and data in order to solve tasks such as intelligent recommendations and semantic search
Cognitive - Knowledge mapping
Add Bing Search APIs to your apps and harness the ability to comb billions of webpages, images, videos, and news with a single API call.
Cognitive - Bing
Allow your apps to process natural language with pre-built scripts, evaluate sentiment and learn how to recognize what users want.
Cognitive - Natural Language processing
Azure DevOps Services (formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services, or VSTS), provides development collaboration tools including high-performance pipelines, free private Git repositories, configurable Kanban boards, and extensive automated and cloud-based load testing
Azure DevOps
Quickly create on-demand Windows and Linux environments you can use to test or demo your applications directly from your deployment pipelines
Azure DevTest Labs
