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Portal Navigation

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The user interface for accessing and managing Azure resources, providing a visual way to interact with Azure services.

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Subscriptions

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A logical container for your Azure resources, providing boundaries for billing, access control, and resource limits.

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Management Groups

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A hierarchical container above subscriptions that enables you to manage access, policy, and compliance across multiple subscriptions.

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Azure Policy

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A service that allows you to enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at scale, ensuring resources meet specific rules.

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Blueprints

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A way to define a repeatable set of Azure resources that adheres to an organization’s standards, patterns, and requirements.

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Role Assignments (IAM)

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Assigning permissions to users, groups, or service principals to control access to Azure resources based on the principle of least privilege.

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Cost Management + Billing

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Tools and features for analyzing, managing, and optimizing Azure spending, as well as viewing and paying invoices.

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Advisor

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A personalized cloud consultant that provides recommendations to optimize your Azure deployments for cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance.

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Service Health

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Provides information about the health of Azure services and regions, including planned maintenance, service incidents, and health advisories.

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Resource Locks

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Protect Azure resources from accidental deletion or modification by applying ReadOnly or CanNotDelete locks.

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Resource Tags

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Metadata key-value pairs applied to Azure resources to logically organize them for billing, management, and operations.

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Resource Groups

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A container that holds related resources for an Azure solution, allowing you to manage them as a single entity.

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Activity Log

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A record of operations performed on resources in your Azure subscription, providing audit trails for tracking changes and troubleshooting issues.

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Deployments

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The process of provisioning and configuring Azure resources using infrastructure-as-code tools like Resource Manager templates or ARM Templates. It automates the creation and configuration of your infrastructure.

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Cloud Shell

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A browser-based, authenticated shell for managing Azure resources, providing command-line access to Azure services without requiring local installation.

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Resource Manager Templates

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JSON files that define the infrastructure and configuration for an Azure deployment, enabling infrastructure-as-code.

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Microsoft Entra ID

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Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, providing authentication, authorization, and directory services for applications and resources. Formerly known as Azure Active Directory.

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Azure Active Directory Domain Services

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A managed domain service that provides domain join, group policy, LDAP, and Kerberos/NTLM authentication, enabling you to migrate on-premises Active Directory-dependent applications to Azure without reconfiguring.

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Azure Defender for Cloud

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A cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) that provides threat protection for your Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments.

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Key Vault

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A centralized cloud service for securely storing secrets, keys, and certificates, helping you control access to sensitive data.

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Azure Firewall

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A managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources by providing stateful firewall capabilities.

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Network Security Groups (NSGs)

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Virtual firewalls that control network traffic to and from Azure resources, allowing you to define security rules to permit or deny traffic based on source/destination IP, port, and protocol.

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Application Security

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Encompasses various methods of securing applications, protecting them from threats, and ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It may also refer to Azure Application Gateway’s WAF (Web Application Firewall).

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Conditional Access & Identity Governance

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Features within Entra ID that allow you to enforce access policies based on various conditions (device, location, user risk) and manage user identities, access rights, and lifecycle within the organization.

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Microsoft Purview
A unified data governance solution that helps you understand, protect, and manage your data across your organization.
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Azure AD Connect
A tool that synchronizes on-premises Active Directory identities with Microsoft Entra ID, enabling hybrid identity management.
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Managed Identities
Automatically managed identities in Microsoft Entra ID that applications can use to authenticate to other Azure services without needing to manage credentials in code.
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Azure Sentinel
A cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) system that provides intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise.
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Azure Security Center's Secure Score
A measurement of your organization's security posture, based on security recommendations that Azure Security Center provides. It is now part of Defender for Cloud's CSPM features.
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Virtual Machines (VMs)
On-demand, scalable computing resources that provide you with control over the operating system, applications, and configuration.
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Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS)
A service that lets you create and manage a group of identical, load-balanced VMs, automatically increasing or decreasing the number of instances based on demand or a schedule.
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App Services / App Service Plans
A fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web apps, mobile backends, and APIs. App Service Plans define the underlying compute resources that run your App Services.
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Azure Functions
A serverless compute service that enables you to run event-triggered code without explicitly provisioning or managing infrastructure.
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Azure Batch
A cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management service that enables you to run large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) applications efficiently.
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Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
A desktop and application virtualization service running in the cloud, enabling users to access their Windows desktops and applications from anywhere.
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Azure Container Registry (ACR)
A private registry service for storing and managing container images, enabling you to build, store, and manage container images and artifacts for all types of container deployments.
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Azure Dedicated Host
Provides physical servers dedicated to hosting one customer's Azure VMs, offering hardware isolation and control over the server infrastructure.
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Azure Spot Virtual Machines
Allows you to take advantage of unused Azure compute capacity at significant cost savings, suitable for workloads that can tolerate interruptions.
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
A managed Kubernetes container orchestration service that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications.
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Container Instances
A serverless container service that enables you to run containers directly in Azure without managing virtual machines or container orchestration infrastructure.
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Container Apps
A fully managed serverless container execution environment that enables you to run microservices and containerized applications on a scalable platform without managing complex infrastructure.
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Azure Red Hat OpenShift
A jointly engineered, fully managed OpenShift service on Azure, allowing you to deploy and manage containerized applications using the Red Hat OpenShift platform.
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Container Registry Tasks
Enables automating container image builds, testing, and deployment in Azure Container Registry based on source code changes or base image updates.
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Azure Service Fabric
A distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing scalable and reliable microservices and containers, supporting both stateless and stateful services.
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Dev Spaces
(Deprecated) A tool that enabled teams to collaboratively develop, test, and debug containerized applications running in AKS. This is now part of the broader AKS and cloud-native development ecosystem.
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Virtual Networks (VNet)
Logically isolated network environments in Azure, enabling you to create private IP address spaces, subnets, route tables, and network security groups.
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Load Balancers
Distributes incoming network traffic across multiple backend servers, providing high availability and scalability for applications. Azure offers different load balancer types for internal and external traffic.
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Application Gateway
A web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to web applications, providing features such as SSL termination, cookie-based session affinity, and web application firewall (WAF).
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Traffic Manager
A DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic to different Azure regions based on various routing methods, such as performance, geographic, or priority.
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Front Door & CDN
A global, scalable entry point that uses the Microsoft global network to deliver fast, secure, and reliable web applications. Includes Content Delivery Network (CDN) capabilities.
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VPN Gateways
Enable you to create secure, cross-premises connections between your on-premises network and your Azure virtual network over the public internet.
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ExpressRoute
Establishes private, dedicated network connections between your on-premises infrastructure and Azure datacenters, offering higher bandwidth, lower latency, and more reliable connections than VPNs.
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Azure Bastion
A fully managed service that provides secure RDP/SSH access to virtual machines directly through the Azure portal, eliminating the need to expose VMs to the public internet.
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Azure DNS
A managed DNS service that provides name resolution for your Azure resources, supporting public and private DNS zones.
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Network Watcher
A network monitoring and diagnostics service that provides tools for capturing packets, analyzing network performance, and troubleshooting network issues.
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Service Endpoints & Private Endpoints
Service Endpoints secure access to Azure service resources to only your virtual network. Private Endpoints provide secure connectivity to Azure services from your virtual network, using a private IP address from within your VNet.
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Azure Route Server
Simplifies dynamic routing between your virtual network and your network virtual appliances (NVAs) by automatically learning and distributing routes.
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Storage Accounts
Provides secure and scalable cloud storage for data, including blobs (objects), files, queues, and tables. It serves as the base for all Azure storage services.
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Databases
Azure offers a range of database services, including Azure SQL Database (managed SQL Server), Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for MariaDB, and more.
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Azure Cache for Redis
A fully managed, in-memory data cache service based on the popular open-source Redis. It improves application performance by reducing database load.
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Azure Data Explorer
A fast, fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis of large volumes of streaming data from applications, websites, IoT devices, and more.
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Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
A highly scalable and cost-effective data lake solution built on Azure Blob Storage, enabling you to store and analyze massive amounts of unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data.
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Azure Cosmos DB
A globally distributed, multi-model database service that enables you to build highly scalable and responsive applications with low latency.
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Storage Tiers (Hot, Cool, Archive)
Storage tiers that offer different price points and performance characteristics for data in Azure Blob Storage: Hot (frequent access), Cool (infrequent access), and Archive (rarely accessed, long-term storage).
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Azure Storage Explorer
A free, standalone app that enables you to visually manage and explore your Azure storage resources, including blobs, files, queues, and tables.
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Azure Synapse Analytics
A limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics, allowing you to query data using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources.
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Azure Data Factory
A cloud-based data integration service that allows you to create, schedule, and orchestrate data workflows (pipelines) for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data.
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Azure Databricks
A fully managed, collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for data science, engineering, and machine learning.
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HDInsight
A fully managed, open-source analytics service that allows you to run popular big data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, and Kafka.
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Time Series Insights
A fully managed analytics, storage, and visualization service for time series data, enabling you to gain insights from IoT devices and other sources.
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Azure Analysis Services
A fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that provides enterprise-grade data modeling and online analytical processing (OLAP) capabilities.
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Azure Purview
(Moved to Security & Identity as Microsoft Purview) A unified data governance solution that helps you understand, protect, and manage your data across your organization.
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API Management
A fully managed service that enables you to publish, secure, transform, analyze, and monetize APIs.
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Event Hubs
A scalable event ingestion service that can process millions of events per second, enabling you to build real-time data pipelines.
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Service Bus
A reliable messaging service that provides asynchronous message queuing and publish-subscribe capabilities, enabling you to decouple applications and services.
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Notification Hubs
A scalable mobile push notification engine that enables you to send push notifications to any platform (iOS, Android, Windows, etc.) from any backend.
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IoT Hub / IoT Edge
IoT Hub is a managed service that acts as a central message hub for bi-directional communication between your IoT application and the devices it manages. IoT Edge extends IoT Hub functionality to edge devices.
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Azure Maps
A geospatial service that provides mapping, search, routing, traffic, and spatial intelligence capabilities for building location-aware applications.
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Logic Apps
A cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that enables you to automate workflows and integrate applications, data, and services using a visual designer.
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Azure Relay
Enables you to securely expose services running behind firewalls or NATs to external clients without requiring changes to your network infrastructure.
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Azure Communication Services
A set of cloud communication APIs and SDKs that enable you to add voice, video, chat, and SMS capabilities to your applications.
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Monitor
A comprehensive monitoring solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises environments.
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Diagnostics
Features within Azure services that allow you to collect logs and metrics to monitor the health and performance of your resources.
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Automation Accounts
A cloud-based service that enables you to automate tasks across Azure and on-premises environments using runbooks, hybrid workers, and other automation features.
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Azure Arc
Enables you to manage and govern your on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge resources through the Azure control plane.
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Azure Lighthouse
Enables service providers to manage Azure resources for multiple customers from within their own Azure tenant, simplifying multi-tenant management.
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Azure Resource Graph
A service that allows you to explore and query your Azure resources across subscriptions and management groups using a powerful query language.
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Azure Update Management
Enables you to manage operating system updates for your Azure VMs and on-premises servers from a central location.
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Logic Apps
A cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that enables you to automate workflows and integrate applications, data, and services using a visual designer. (Listed in both Integration & Messaging and Monitoring & Automation because it applies to both categories).
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Runbooks
Automated scripts within Azure Automation that perform tasks such as starting/stopping VMs, deploying applications, or managing configurations.
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Backup (Recovery Services Vault)
Azure Backup service used to protect data in Azure, on-premises, and in hybrid environments. Recovery Services Vault is the management entity that stores backups and recovery points.
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Site Recovery
A disaster recovery service that enables you to replicate workloads running on physical or virtual machines from a primary location to a secondary location in Azure.
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Azure Migrate
A service that helps you discover, assess, and migrate on-premises servers, applications, and data to Azure.
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Azure Backup Center
A unified management experience in Azure that allows you to monitor and manage your Azure Backup estate across multiple subscriptions and recovery services vaults.
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Azure Site Recovery for VMware & Physical Servers
Provides disaster recovery capabilities specifically for VMware virtual machines and physical servers, enabling replication to Azure for failover and recovery.
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Backup Policies
Define the schedule, retention, and other settings for your Azure Backup jobs, ensuring consistent protection of your data.
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Azure Cognitive Services
A suite of pre-trained AI models and APIs that enable you to add intelligent capabilities to your applications, such as vision, speech, language, and decision-making.
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Azure Machine Learning
A cloud-based platform for building, training, deploying, and managing machine learning models. Provides tools for data preparation, experimentation, and model deployment.
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Azure Cognitive Search
A fully managed search-as-a-service that provides rich indexing and querying capabilities over diverse data sources, enabling you to build intelligent search experiences.
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Azure AI Services
An umbrella term which generally refers to various services in the Azure AI portfolio including, but not limited to, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning, and related AI infrastructure.
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Azure API for FHIR / Healthcare APIs
A managed service that provides a compliant and secure platform for storing, managing, and exchanging healthcare data using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard.
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Azure Lab Services
Enables educators and trainers to easily create and manage virtual labs for classrooms, training, and workshops.
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DevTest Labs
Provides a way for developers and testers to quickly create environments in Azure while minimizing waste and controlling costs.
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Azure Stack
An extension of Azure that enables you to run Azure services in your own datacenter, providing a consistent hybrid cloud platform. Different Azure Stack offerings include Hub, Edge, and HCI.
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Azure Orbital
A ground station as-a-service that enables you to communicate with and control your satellites directly from Azure.
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Azure Quantum
A full-stack, open cloud ecosystem that brings the benefits of quantum computing to researchers, developers, and businesses.
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Logic Apps, Power Automate, and Power Apps
These are components of the Power Platform.
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Logic Apps
A cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for automating workflows and integrating apps, data, and services.
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Power Automate
A cloud-based service that enables users to automate repetitive tasks and workflows without writing code.
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Power Apps
A low-code platform for building custom business applications that connect to data sources and run on web, mobile, and tablet devices.
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