Extended List of Azure Services Flashcards

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Azure Virtual Machines

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Windows or Linux virtual machines (VMs) hosted in Azure.

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Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

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Scaling for Windows or Linux VMs hosted in Azure.

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Azure Kubernetes Service

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Cluster management for VMs that run containerized services.

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Distributed systems platform that runs in Azure or on-premises.

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Azure Service Fabric

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Managed service for parallel and high-performance computing applications.

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Azure Batch

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Containerized apps run on Azure without provisioning servers or VMs.

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Azure Container Instances

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An event-driven, serverless compute service.

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Azure Functions

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Connects VMs to incoming virtual private network (VPN) connections.

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Azure Virtual Network

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Balances inbound and outbound connections to applications or service endpoints.

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Azure Load Balancer

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10
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Optimizes app server farm delivery while increasing application security.

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Azure Application Gateway

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Accesses Azure Virtual Networks through high-performance VPN gateways.

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Azure VPN Gateway

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12
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Provides ultra-fast DNS responses and ultra-high domain availability.

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Azure DNS

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13
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Delivers high-bandwidth content to customers globally.

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Azure Content Delivery Network

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Azure DDoS Protection

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Protects Azure-hosted applications from distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks.

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Azure Traffic Manager

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Distributes network traffic across Azure regions worldwide.

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Azure ExpressRoute

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Connects to Azure over high-bandwidth dedicated secure connections.

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Azure Network Watcher

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Monitors and diagnoses network issues by using scenario-based analysis.

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Azure Firewall

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Implements high-security, high-availability firewall with unlimited scalability.

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Azure Virtual WAN

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Creates a unified wide area network (WAN) that connects local and remote sites.

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20
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Storage service for very large objects, such as video files or bitmaps.

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Azure Blob storage

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21
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File shares that can be accessed and managed like a file server.

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Azure File storage

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22
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A data store for queuing and reliably delivering messages between applications.

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Azure Queue storage

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23
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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.

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Azure Table storage

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24
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Characteristics all Services Share

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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.

25
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Offline data synchronization.
Connectivity to on-premises data.
Broadcasting push notifications.
Auto-scaling to match business needs.

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Features of Mobile

26
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Globally distributed database that supports NoSQL options.

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Azure Cosmos DB

27
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Fully managed relational database with auto-scale, integral intelligence, and robust security.

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Azure SQL Database

28
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Fully managed and scalable MySQL relational database with high availability and security.

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Azure Database for MySQL

29
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Fully managed and scalable PostgreSQL relational database with high availability and security.

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Azure Database for PostgreSQL

30
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Service that hosts enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud.

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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

31
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Fully managed data warehouse with integral security at every level of scale at no extra cost.

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Azure Synapse Analytics

32
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Azure Database Migration Service

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Service that migrates databases to the cloud with no application code changes.

33
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Azure Cache for Redis

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Fully managed service caches frequently used and static data to reduce data and application latency.

34
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Azure Database for MariaDB

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Fully managed and scalable MariaDB relational database with high availability and security.

35
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Azure App Service

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Quickly create powerful cloud web-based apps.

36
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Azure Notification Hubs

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Send push notifications to any platform from any back end.

37
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Azure API Management

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Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale.

38
Q

Deploy this fully managed search as a service.

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Azure Cognitive Search

39
Q

Create and deploy mission-critical web apps at scale.

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Web Apps feature of Azure App Service

40
Q

Add real-time web functionalities easily.

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Azure SignalR Service

41
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Fully managed global IoT software as a service (SaaS) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage IoT assets at scale.

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IoT Central

42
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Messaging hub that provides secure communications between and monitoring of millions of IoT devices.

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Azure IoT Hub

43
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IoT Edge

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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.

44
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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.

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Azure Synapse Analytics

45
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Process massive amounts of data with managed clusters of Hadoop clusters in the cloud.

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Azure HDInsight

46
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Integrate this collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics service with other big data services in Azure.

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Azure Databricks

47
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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.

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Azure Machine Learning Service

48
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Azure ML Studio

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Collaborative visual workspace where you can build, test, and deploy machine learning solutions by using prebuilt machine learning algorithms and data-handling modules.

49
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Use image-processing algorithms to smartly identify, caption, index, and moderate your pictures and videos.

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Vision

50
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Convert spoken audio into text, use voice for verification, or add speaker recognition to your app.

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Speech

51
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Map complex information and data to solve tasks such as intelligent recommendations and semantic search.

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Knowledge mapping

52
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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.

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Bing Search

53
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Allow your apps to process natural language with prebuilt scripts, evaluate sentiment, and learn how to recognize what users want.

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Natural Language processing

54
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Azure DevOps

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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.

55
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Azure DevTest Labs

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Quickly create on-demand Windows and Linux environments to test or demo applications directly from deployment pipelines.

56
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Azure Free Account

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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.

57
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Azure Free Student Account

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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.

58
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Learn Sandbox

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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.