Azure
Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organization meet your business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks.
What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and service provided by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of cloud services that can be used for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of data centers.Azure includes infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) offerings. Some of the key features and services offered by Azure include virtual machines, storage, databases, application services, networking, and analytics.
One of the key advantages of Azure is that it offers a high level of scalability, allowing users to quickly and easily scale up or down their applications or services as needed. It also provides strong security and compliance capabilities, ensuring that data and applications are protected and meet regulatory requirements.
Azure can be accessed through a web-based portal or command-line interface, and can be integrated with a wide range of tools and platforms, including Visual Studio, GitHub, and various third-party applications and services.
Directory of Azure Cloud Services
Azure Services
AI + machine learning
- Anomaly Detector
- Azure Bot Services
- Azure Cognitive Search
- Azure Databricks
- Azure Machine Learning
- Azure Open Datasets
- Azure Cognitive Services
- Azure Video Indexer
- Computer Vision
- Content Moderator
- Custom Vision
- Data Science Virtual Machines
- Face API
- Azure Form Recognizer
- Azure Immersive Reader
- Kinect DK
- Language Understanding (LUIS)
- Microsoft Genomics
- Personalizer
- Project Bonsai Preview
- QnA Maker
- Speaker recognition
- Speech to text
- Speech translation
- Cognitive Service for Language
- Text to speech
- Translator
- Azure Metrics Advisor
- Health Bot
- Azure Percept Preview
- Azure Applied AI Services
- Azure OpenAI Service Preview
Analytics
- Azure Analysis Services
- Azure Data Explorer
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1
- Azure Data Share
- Azure Databricks
- Azure Stream Analytics
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Data Catalog
- Data Lake Analytics
- Event Hubs
- HDInsight
- Power BI Embedded
- R Server for HDInsight
- Microsoft Purview
- Microsoft Graph Data Connect Preview
- Azure Chaos Studio Preview
Compute
- App Service
- Azure CycleCloud
- Azure Quantum
- Azure Spot Virtual Machines
- Azure Spring Apps
- Azure VMware Solution
- Batch
- Cloud Services
- Linux Virtual Machines
- SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- Static Web Apps
- Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Virtual Machines
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Azure Dedicated Host
- Azure VM Image Builder
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Functions
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Service Fabric
Containers
- App Configuration
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure Functions
- Web App for Containers
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Service Fabric
- Azure Container Registry
Databases
- Azure Cache for Redis
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Database for MariaDB
- Azure Database for MySQL
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure Database Migration Service
- Azure SQL
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Edge
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
- SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- Table Storage
- Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
- Azure Confidential Ledger
Developer tools
- App Configuration
- Azure DevOps
- Azure DevTest Labs
- Azure Pipelines
- SDKs
- Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Code
- Azure Load Testing Preview
- Microsoft Dev Box Preview
DevOps
- Azure Artifacts
- Azure Boards
- Azure DevOps
- Azure DevTest Labs
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Pipelines
- Azure Repos
- Azure Test Plans
- DevOps tool integrations
- Azure Load Testing Preview
- Azure Managed Grafana
- Microsoft Dev Box Preview
Hybrid + multicloud
- Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Azure Arc
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure DevOps
- Azure ExpressRoute
- Azure IoT Edge
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Edge
- Azure Stack
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Azure Stack HCI
- Azure Stack Hub
- Azure Stack Edge
- Azure Modular Datacenter
Identity
- Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- Azure Information Protection
- Azure Active Directory External Identities
Integration
- API Management
- Azure Health Data Services
- Event Grid
- Logic Apps
- Service Bus
- Azure Web PubSub
Internet of Things
- API Management
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Digital Twins
- Azure IoT Central
- Azure IoT Edge
- Azure IoT Hub
- Azure Machine Learning
- Azure Maps
- Azure RTOS
- Azure Sphere
- Azure SQL Edge
- Azure Stream Analytics
- Azure Time Series Insights
- Event Grid
- Kinect DK
- Logic Apps
- Notification Hubs
- Windows 10 IoT Core Services
- Microsoft Defender for IoT
- Azure Percept Preview
- Windows for IoT
- Azure Functions
Management and governance
- Automation
- Azure Advisor
- Defender External Attack Surface Management
- Azure Backup
- Azure Blueprints Preview
- Azure Lighthouse
- Azure Managed Applications
- Azure Migrate
- Azure mobile app
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Policy
- Azure Resource Manager
- Azure Resource Manager templates
- Azure Service Health
- Azure Site Recovery
- Cloud Shell
- Microsoft Cost Management
- Microsoft Azure portal
- Network Watcher
- Traffic Manager
- Azure Automanage Preview
- Azure Resource Mover
- Microsoft Purview
- Azure Chaos Studio Preview
- Azure Managed Grafana
- Update management center Preview
Media
- Azure Media Player
- Content Delivery Network
- Content Protection
- Encoding
- Live and On-Demand Streaming
- Media Services
Migration
- Azure Database Migration Service
- Azure Migrate
- Azure Site Recovery
- Microsoft Cost Management
- Azure Data Box
Mixed reality
- Azure Digital Twins
- Kinect DK
- Remote Rendering
- Spatial Anchors
- Object Anchors Preview
Mobile
- API Management
- App Configuration
- App Service
- Azure Cognitive Search
- Azure Maps
- Azure Cognitive Services
- Notification Hubs
- Spatial Anchors
- Visual Studio App Center
- Xamarin
- Azure Communication Services
Networking
- Application Gateway
- Azure Bastion
- Azure DDoS Protection
- Azure DNS
- Azure ExpressRoute
- Azure Firewall
- Load Balancer
- Azure Firewall Manager
- Azure Front Door
- Azure Internet Analyzer Preview
- Azure Private Link
- Content Delivery Network
- Network Watcher
- Traffic Manager
- Virtual Network
- Virtual WAN
- VPN Gateway
- Web Application Firewall
- Azure Orbital Preview
- Azure Route Server
- Azure Network Function Manager
- Azure Virtual Network Manager Preview
- Azure Private 5G Core Preview
Security
- App Configuration
- Application Gateway
- Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Defender External Attack Surface Management
- Azure Bastion
- Azure DDoS Protection
- Azure Dedicated HSM
- Azure Firewall
- Azure Firewall Manager
- Azure Front Door
- Azure Information Protection
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Key Vault
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- VPN Gateway
- Web Application Firewall
- Microsoft Defender for IoT
- Microsoft Azure Attestation
- Azure Confidential Ledger
Storage
- Archive Storage
- Avere vFXT for Azure
- Azure Backup
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1
- Azure Data Share
- Azure Files
- Azure HPC Cache
- Azure NetApp Files
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure Data Box
- Azure Disk Storage
- Queue Storage
- Storage Accounts
- Storage Explorer
- StorSimple
- Azure Confidential Ledger
Virtual desktop infrastructure
- Azure Lab Services
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure
- Microsoft Dev Box Preview
Web
- API Management
- App Configuration
- App Service
- Azure Cognitive Search
- Azure Maps
- Azure SignalR Service
- Content Delivery Network
- Notification Hubs
- Static Web Apps
- Azure Communication Services
- Azure Web PubSub
- Azure Fluid Relay
- Web App for Containers
Azure Periodic Table
- Azure Functions
- Snippet from Wikipedia: Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure (/ˈæʒər, ˈeɪʒər/ AZH-ər, AY-zhər, UK also /ˈæzjʊər, ˈeɪzjʊər/ AZ-ure, AY-zure), is a cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft. It offers access, management, and the development of applications and services through global data centers. It also provides a range of capabilities, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Microsoft Azure supports many programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.
Azure was first introduced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2008 under the codename "Project Red Dog". It was officially launched as Windows Azure in February 2010 and later renamed to Microsoft Azure on March 25, 2014.
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Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers.
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