| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Virtual Machines | Windows or Linux VMs |
| Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Scaling for Azure VMs |
| Azure Kubernetes Service | Enables management of a cluster of VMs that run containerized services |
| Azure Service Fabric | Distributed systems platform |
| Azure Batch | Managed service for parallel and high performance computing applications |
| Azure container instances | Run containerized apps on Azure without provisioning servers or VMs |
| Azure Functions | An event driven, serverless compute service |
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Blob storage | Storage service for very large objects, such as video files or bitmaps |
| Azure File storage | File shares that you can access and manage like a file server |
| Azure Queue storage | A data store for queueing and reliably delivering messages between applications |
| Azure Table storage | A NoSQL store that hosts unstructured data independent of any schema |
These services all share several common characteristics:
Durable
Secure
Scalable
Managed
Accessible
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Virtual Network | Connects VMs to incoming VPN connections |
| Azure Load Balancer | Balances inbound and outbound connections to apps or service endpoints |
| Azure Application Gateway | Optimizes app server farm delivery while increasing application security |
| Azure VPN gateway | Access Azure Virtual Networks through VPN gateways |
| Azure DNS | Provides fast DNS responses |
| Azure CDN | Provides high bandwidth content to customers |
| Azure DDoS protection | Protects Azure applications from DDoS attacks |
| Azure Traffic Manager | Distributed 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 using scenario based analysis |
| Azure Firewall | High security and availability Firewall with unlimited scalability |
| Azure Virtual WAN | Created a unified WAN connecting local and remote sites |
It is simple to include features such as SAP, Oracle, SQL Server and sharepoint for mobile apps. Other features of this service include:
Offline data synchronization
Connectivity to on-premises data
Broadcasting push notifications
Autoscaling to match business needs
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Cosmos DB | Globally distributed database that supports NoSQL options |
| Azure SQL database | Fully managed relational database |
| Azure database for MySQL | Fully managed and scalable MySQL relational database |
| Azure Database for PostgreSQL | Fully managed and scalable PostgreSQL relational database |
| SQL server on VMs | Host enterprise SQL server apps in the cloud |
| Azure synapse analytics | Fully managed data warehouse |
| Azure Database Migration Service | Migrate your databases to the cloud with no application code changes |
| Azure Cache for Redis | Caches frequently used and static data to reduce data and application latency |
| Azure Database for MariaDB | Fully managed and scalable MariaDB database |
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure App Service | Create web-based apps |
| Azure Notification Hubs | Send push notifications to any platform from any back end |
| Azure API Management | Publish APIs |
| Azure Cognitive Search | Search as a service |
| Web apps feature of azure app service | Create and deploy mission critical apps |
| Azure SignalIR Service | Add real time web functionalities |
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| IoT Central | IoT SaaS |
| Azure IoT Hub | Messaging hub for IoT devices |
| IoT Edge | Push data analysis models onto IoT devices |
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure HDInsight | process data with Hadoop in the cloud |
| Azure Databricks | Collaborative Apache Spark based analytics |
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure Machine Learning Service | In depth machine learning |
| Azure Machine Learning Studio | Drag and drop machine learning |
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Vision | Image processing algorithms |
| Speech | Convert spoken audio to text or use voice for verification |
| Knowledge mapping | Map information and data to solve tasks |
| Bing search | Use bing search API |
| Natural language processing | Allow apps to process natural language |
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Azure DevOps | High performance pipelines, Git repos, Kanban boards and load testing |
| Azure DevTest Labs | Create Windows and Linux environments for testing |