Technology Overview Flashcards
What is Azure VM?
A Virtual Machine provided by Azure. You can choose either Windows or Linux. You can choose among different computing resources
Azure Container Services?
Containers as a service to run docker
Azure Kubernetes Services?
Easy to manage and scale several containers
Azure Service Fabric?
For managing, packaging and deploying microservices
Azure Functions?
Serverles, your code just runs and shut down. You only pay for the times your code runs
Azure Batch?
Jobs in paralel. Spot VMs gives you better price if you don’t care about your service being interrupted
Azure Blob Storage?
- Serverless Storage
- Unstrucutured files
- Large files
Azure Disk Storage?
- Encryption by default
- Can choose between HDD and SSD
- Attach Volume to VMs
Azure File Storage?
- File server
- Can be shared among serveral VMs
Azure Queue Storage?
- Messaging storage for integrating applications
Azure Table Storage?
- Wide-Column NoSQL database
Azure Databox?
- Designed to move petabytes or terabytes of data
- Instead of transfering over a network is physically moved
Azure Archive Storage?
- Cold Storage
- Might take longer but cheaper
Azure Data Lakse Storage?
- Centralized repository to have data from many sources
- Supports structured or unstructured data
Azure Cosmos DB?
Microsoft database for NoSQL is supposed to have cool features and support big amounts of data
Azure SQL Database?
SQL Server with all the cool features, like auto scale, integral intelligence and robust security
Mysql/ PSQL/ MariaDB what features do they have in common in Azure?
Fully managed
Scalable
Secure
Highly Available
SQL Server on VMs?
Doesn’t have all cool features of Azure SQL Database but provides lift and shift (easy change from on premises)
Azure Synapse Analytics?
Data warehouse
Azure Database Migration Service?
Migrate your databases to cloud with no application changes
Azure Cache for Redis?
Is a cache storage for delivering frequently accessed data faster
Azure Notifications Hub?
Publish/Subscribe. Send push notifications from any backend to your Azure resources
Azure API Apps?
Easily expose your API endpoints
Azure Service Bus?
Is like Kafka but built by Microsoft