1 - Azure Introduction

Introduction with azure
What is Azure?
Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation

meet your business challenges. It is the freedom to build, manage and deploy
applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks.
What is Microsoft Azure used for?
Because Microsoft Azure consists of numerous service offerings, its use cases are
extremely diverse. Running virtual machines or containers in the cloud is one of the
most popular uses for Microsoft Azure. These compute resources can host
infrastructure components, such as domain name system (DNS) servers; Windows
Server services -- such as Internet Information Services (IIS); or third-party applications.
Microsoft also supports the use of third-party operating systems, such as Linux.
Azure is also commonly used as a platform for hosting databases in the cloud. Microsoft
offers serverless relational databases such as Azure SQL and non-relational databases
such as NoSQL.
In addition, the platform is frequently used for backup and disaster recovery. Many
organizations use Azure storage as archive in order to meet their long-term Data
retention requirements.
Azure products and services
Microsoft sorts Azure cloud services into nearly two dozen categories, including:
Compute. These services enable a user to deploy and manage VMs, containers
and batch jobs, as well as support remote application access. Compute resources
created within the Azure cloud can be configured with either public IP addresses or
private IP addresses, depending on whether the resource needs to be accessible to the
outside world.
Mobile. These products help developers build cloud applications for mobile devices,
providing notification services, support for back-end tasks, tools for building application
program interfaces (APIs) and the ability to couple geospatial context with data.
Web. These services support the development and deployment of web applications.
They also offer features for search, content delivery, API management, notification and
reporting.
Storage. This category of services provides scalable cloud storage for structured and
unstructured data. It also supports big data projects, persistent storage and archival
storage.
Analytics. These services provide distributed analytics and storage, as well as features
for real-time analytics, big data analytics, data lakes, machine learning (ML), business
intelligence (BI), internet of things (IoT) data streams and data warehousing.
Networking. This group includes virtual networks, dedicated connections and gateways,
as well as services for traffic management and diagnostics, load balancing, DNS hosting
and network protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Media and content delivery network (CDN). These CDN services include on-demand
streaming, digital rights protection, encoding and media playback and indexing.
Integration. These are services for server backup, site recovery and connecting private
and public clouds.
Identity. These offerings ensure only authorized users can access Azure services and
help protect encryption keys and other sensitive information in the cloud. Services
include support for Azure Active Directory and multifactor authentication (MFA).
Internet of things. These services help users capture, monitor and analyze IoT data
from sensors and other devices. Services include notifications, analytics, monitoring and
support for coding and execution.
DevOps. This group provides project and collaboration tools, such as Azure DevOps --
formerly Visual Studio Team Services -- that facilitate DevOps software development
processes. It also offers features for application diagnostics, DevOps tool integrations
and test labs for build tests and experimentation.
Development. These services help application developers share code, test applications
and track potential issues. Azure supports a range of application programming
languages, including JavaScript, Python, .NET and Node.js. Tools in this category also
include support for Azure DevOps, software development kits (SDKs) and blockchain.
Security. These products provide capabilities to identify and respond to cloud security
threats, as well as manage encryption keys and other sensitive assets.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. This is a wide range of services that a
developer can use to infuse artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive
computing capabilities into applications and data sets.
Containers. These services help an enterprise create, register, orchestrate and manage
huge volumes of containers in the Azure cloud, using common platforms such
as Docker and Kubernetes.
Databases. This category includes Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings for SQL and
NoSQL, as well as other database instances -- such as Azure Cosmos DB and Azure
Database for PostgreSQL. It also includes Azure SQL Data
Warehouse support, caching and hybrid database integration and migration features.
Azure SQL is the platform's flagship database service. It is a relational database that
provides SQL functionality without the need for deploying a SQL server.
Migration. This suite of tools helps an organization estimate workload migration costs
and perform the actual migration of workloads from local data centers to the Azure
cloud.
Management and governance. These services provide a range of backup,

recovery, compliance, automation, scheduling and monitoring tools that can help a
cloud administrator manage an Azure deployment.
Mixed reality. These services are designed to help developers create content for
the Windows Mixed Reality environment.
Blockchain. The Azure Blockchain Service allows you to join a blockchain consortium or
to create your own.
Intune. Microsoft Intune can be used to enroll user devices, thereby making it possible
to push security policies and mobile apps to those devices. Mobile apps can be deployed
either to groups of users or to a collection of devices. Intune also provides tools for
tracking which apps are being used. A remote wipe feature allows the organization's
data to be securely removed from devices without removing a user's mobile apps in the
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Introduction with azure

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation

What is Microsoft Azure used for?

Azure products and services

Management and governance. These services provide a range of backup,

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