Extended List of Azure Services Flashcards
Azure Virtual Machines
Windows or Linux virtual machines (VMs) hosted in Azure.
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Scaling for Windows or Linux VMs hosted in Azure.
Azure Kubernetes Service
Cluster management for VMs that run containerized services.
Distributed systems platform that runs in Azure or on-premises.
Azure Service Fabric
Managed service for parallel and high-performance computing applications.
Azure Batch
Containerized apps run on Azure without provisioning servers or VMs.
Azure Container Instances
An event-driven, serverless compute service.
Azure Functions
Connects VMs to incoming virtual private network (VPN) connections.
Azure Virtual Network
Balances inbound and outbound connections to applications or service endpoints.
Azure Load Balancer
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 Content Delivery Network
Azure DDoS Protection
Protects Azure-hosted applications from distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks.
Azure Traffic Manager
Distributes network traffic across Azure regions worldwide.
Azure ExpressRoute
Connects to Azure over high-bandwidth dedicated secure connections.
Azure Network Watcher
Monitors and diagnoses network issues by using scenario-based analysis.
Azure Firewall
Implements high-security, high-availability firewall with unlimited scalability.
Azure Virtual WAN
Creates a unified wide area network (WAN) that connects local and remote sites.
Storage service for very large objects, such as video files or bitmaps.
Azure Blob storage
File shares that can be accessed and managed like a file server.
Azure File storage
A data store for queuing and reliably delivering messages between applications.
Azure Queue storage
A service that stores non-relational structured data (also known as structured NoSQL data) in the cloud, providing a key/attribute store with a schemaless design.
Azure Table storage
Characteristics all Services Share
Durable and highly available with redundancy and replication.
Secure through automatic encryption and role-based access control.
Scalable with virtually unlimited storage.
Managed, handling maintenance and any critical problems for you.
Accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS.
Offline data synchronization.
Connectivity to on-premises data.
Broadcasting push notifications.
Auto-scaling to match business needs.
Features of Mobile
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 and scalable MySQL relational database with high availability and security.
Azure Database for MySQL
Fully managed and scalable PostgreSQL relational database with high availability and security.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Service that hosts enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud.
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Fully managed data warehouse with integral security at every level of scale at no extra cost.
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Database Migration Service
Service that migrates databases to the cloud with no application code changes.
Azure Cache for Redis
Fully managed service caches frequently used and static data to reduce data and application latency.
Azure Database for MariaDB
Fully managed and scalable MariaDB relational database with high availability and security.
Azure App Service
Quickly create powerful cloud web-based apps.
Azure Notification Hubs
Send push notifications to any platform from any back end.
Azure API Management
Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale.
Deploy this fully managed search as a service.
Azure Cognitive Search
Create and deploy mission-critical web apps at scale.
Web Apps feature of Azure App Service
Add real-time web functionalities easily.
Azure SignalR Service
Fully managed global IoT software as a service (SaaS) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage IoT assets at scale.
IoT Central
Messaging hub that provides secure communications between and monitoring of millions of IoT devices.
Azure IoT Hub
IoT Edge
Fully managed service that allows data analysis models to be pushed directly onto IoT devices, which allows them to react quickly to state changes without needing to consult cloud-based AI models.
Run analytics at a massive scale by using a cloud-based enterprise data warehouse that takes advantage of massively parallel processing to run complex queries quickly across petabytes of data.
Azure Synapse Analytics
Process massive amounts of data with managed clusters of Hadoop clusters in the cloud.
Azure HDInsight
Integrate this collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics service with other big data services in Azure.
Azure Databricks
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
Azure ML Studio
Collaborative visual workspace where you can build, test, and deploy machine learning solutions by using prebuilt machine learning algorithms and data-handling modules.
Use image-processing algorithms to smartly identify, caption, index, and moderate your pictures and videos.
Vision
Convert spoken audio into text, use voice for verification, or add speaker recognition to your app.
Speech
Map complex information and data to solve tasks such as intelligent recommendations and semantic search.
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.
Bing Search
Allow your apps to process natural language with prebuilt scripts, evaluate sentiment, and learn how to recognize what users want.
Natural Language processing
Azure DevOps
Use development collaboration tools such as high-performance pipelines, free private Git repositories, configurable Kanban boards, and extensive automated and cloud-based load testing. Formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services.
Azure DevTest Labs
Quickly create on-demand Windows and Linux environments to test or demo applications directly from deployment pipelines.
Azure Free Account
Free access to popular Azure products for 12 months.
A credit to spend for the first 30 days.
Access to more than 25 products that are always free.
Azure Free Student Account
Free access to certain Azure services for 12 months.
A credit to use in the first 12 months.
Free access to certain software developer tools.
Learn Sandbox
Creates a temporary subscription that’s added to your Azure account. This temporary subscription allows you to create Azure resources for the duration of a Learn module. The sandbox is the preferred method to use though, because it allows you to create and test Azure resources at no cost to you.