Describe Core Azure Services Flashcards
Azure geography
Market that contains two or more regions. Like U.S. Europe, China, Africa
Azure region
A set of data centers within a latency defined area. West us, east us, central us
Region pairs
Two regions that are paired for disaster recovery reasons. East us is paired with west us. Chosen by azure Microsoft.
Availability zones
Unique physical locations within a region with independent power, network and cooling. Usually a 2 or more within an area.
What is zone redundant
Means Load balancer if one out of 3 data centers within a regions goes out the load balancer would then route to the next two. Single front up address would survive outage.
Management groups, subscriptions, resource groups in order
Management groups, subscriptions, resource groups
Management groups
Think of it as the root level of the subscription. Management provide a level of scope above subscriptions. Can contain multiple subscriptions.
What are subscriptions
Used to provision resources in azure. Multiple subscriptions are used due to reaching limits or to pay different ways or isolate resources between projects/departments. Also unit of billing.
What is a resource group
Contains azure solutions like vms, vnets, or storage account. Can be a part of one subscription.
Resources, give examples
Can be virtual machines, vnet, storage, container. Can be a part of one resource group.
What is a virtual machine.
Is a server or workstation that is virtual and has no actual hardware you maintain and is quick to create and set up.
App service is what.
Is an http based service for hosting web applications, REST api, and mobile back end.
Azure container instance. ACI
Runs docker containers on demand. Is an isolated container, does not use orchestration or clusters.
Aks azure kubernetes services what is it.
Monitors health and maintenance
Windows virtual desktop
Runs virtual windows computers on the fly.
