Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides a broad range of cloud services, including those for computing, analytics, storage, and networking.
| Key Features | Category | Description | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azure Active Directory | Security and Management | Identity and access management, providing SSO, multifactor authentication, and conditional access | |
| Azure Key Vault | Security and Management** | Secure storage for secrets, keys, and certificates | |
| Azure Virtual Machines | Compute | Deploy scalable virtualized computing environments | |
| Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Compute | Simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters | |
| App Service | Web and Mobile | Host web apps, RESTful APIs, and mobile backends | ✔️ |
| Azure Functions | Web and Mobile | Serverless compute service to run code on-demand without managing infrastructure | ✔️ |
| Visual Studio | Developer Services | Integrated development environment (IDE) for building, testing, and deploying applications | |
| Azure DevOps | Developer Services | Development collaboration tools, including CI/CD pipelines | |
| Azure Arc | Hybrid Operations | Extends Azure management across on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments | |
| Azure Stack | Hybrid Operations | Allows running Azure services in on-premises datacenters | |
| Azure Service Bus | Integration** | Managed enterprise message broker for reliable messaging between applications | ✔️ |
| Azure Event Grid | Integration** | Enables event-based architectures by managing event routing | ✔️ |
| Azure Media Services | Media and CDN** | Media processing and delivery solutions | |
| Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) | Media and CDN | High-bandwidth content delivery to users globally | |
| Azure IoT Hub | Analytics and IoT | Facilitates communication between IoT applications and devices | |
| Azure Machine Learning | Analytics and IoT | Comprehensive service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models | |
| Azure Stream Analytics | Analytics and IoT | Real-time data stream processing service | |
| Azure SQL Database | Data | Managed relational database service | ✔️ |
| Azure Cosmos DB | Data | Globally distributed database service for managing data at scale | ✔️ |
| Azure Blob Storage | Data | Stores large amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data | ✔️ |
| Azure Queues Storage | Data | Stores large numbers of messages | ✔️ |
| Azure Data Lake Storage | Data | Scalable storage for big data analytics | |
| Azure Virtual Network | Networking | Core service for creating isolated networks within Azure | |
| Azure ExpressRoute | Networking | Provides dedicated private connections between Azure datacenters and on-premises infrastructure | |
| Azure Application Gateway | Networking | Application-level routing and load balancing |