Azure Services Flashcards by Aaron Venson

Scaling for Windows or Linux VMs hosted in Azure

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

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Enables management of a cluster of VMs that run containerized services

Azure Kubernetes Service

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Distributed systems platform. Runs in Azure or on-premises

Azure Service Fabric

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Managed service for parallel and high-performance computing applications

Azure Batch

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Run containerized apps on Azure without provisioning servers or VMs

Azure Container Instances

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An event-driven, serverless compute service

Azure Function

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Connects VMs to incoming Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections

Azure Virtual Network

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Balances inbound and outbound connections to applications or service endpoints

Azure LB

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Optimizes app server farm delivery while increasing application security

Azure Application Gateway

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Accesses Azure Virtual Networks through high-performance VPN gateways

Azure VPN Gateway

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Provides ultra-fast DNS responses and ultra-high domain availability

Azure DNS

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Delivers high-bandwidth content to customers globally

Azure CDN

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Protects Azure-hosted applications from distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks

Azure DDoS Protection

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Distributes network traffic across Azure regions worldwide

Azure Traffic Manager

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Connects to Azure over high-bandwidth dedicated secure connections

Azure ExpressRoute

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Monitors and diagnoses network issues using scenario-based analysis

Azure Network Watcher

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Implements high-security, high-availability firewall with unlimited scalability

Azure Firewall

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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