Interactive Azure Platform Overview

Compute

Virtual Machines

Create Linux and Windows virtual machines in minutes

Scale to what you need

Pay only for what you use
Enhance security and compliance

Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Autoscale your virtual machines for high availability

Create hundreds of identical virtual machines—in minutes
Rapidly scale your big compute and big data applications
Rely on integrated load balancing and auto scaling

Deploy virtual machines and updates at scale
Support Linux or Windows images and extensions
Run Cassandra, Cloudera, Hadoop, MongoDB, and Mesos

Azure Container Service

Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose

Create a container hosting solution optimized for Azure
Scale and orchestrate applications using DC/OS or Docker Swarm

Use popular open source, client-side tooling
Migrate container workloads to and from Azure without code changes

Azure Container Registry

Manage a Docker private registry as a first-class Azure resource

Store and manage container images across all types of Azure deployments
Keep container images near deployments to reduce latency and costs

Maintain Windows and Linux container images in a single Docker registry
Use familiar, open source Docker command line interface (CLI) tools
Simplify registry access management with Azure Active Directory

Functions

Process events with a serverless code architecture

Easily schedule event-driven tasks across services
Expose Functions as HTTP API endpoints

Scale Functions based on customer demand
Develop how you want, using a browser-based UI or existing tools
Get continuous deployment, remote debugging, and authentication out of the box

Batch

Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management

Scale to tens, hundreds, or thousands of virtual machines
Cloud-enable batch and HPC applications
Stage data and execute compute pipelines

Choose Linux or Windows to run jobs
Autoscale on work in the queue
Pay for what you use with no capital investment

Service Fabric

Build and operate always-on, scalable, distributed applications

Simplify microservice-based application development and lifecycle management
Deliver low-latency performance and efficiency at massive scale

Proven platform used by Azure and other Microsoft services
Run in Azure, on-premises, or in other clouds

Cloud Services

Deploy highly-available, infinitely-scalable applications and APIs

Focus on apps, not hardware
Support for Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, and Ruby
Autoscale to meet demand and save money

Deploy thousands of instances in minutes
Integrated health, monitoring and load-balancing
Automatic operating system and application patching

Networking

Virtual Network

Your private network in the cloud

Build a hybrid infrastructure that you control
Bring your own IP addresses and DNS servers
Secure your connections with an IPSec VPN or ExpressRoute

Gain granular control over traffic between subnets
Create sophisticated network topologies using virtual appliances
Get an isolated and secure environment for your applications

Load Balancer

Deliver high availability and network performance to your applications

Instantly add scale to your applications
Load balance Internet and private network traffic

Improve application reliability via health checks
Flexible NAT rules for better security
Directly integrated into virtual machines and cloud services

Application Gateway

Azure Application Gateway provides application-level routing and load balancing services that let you build a scalable and highly-available web front end in Azure.

Scalable, highly-available HTTP load balancing
Cookie affinity for cross-session-state sharing
99.9% uptime SLA for multi-instance gateways

Management through Azure APIs
Support for both public and private web sites
SSL offload for better utilization

VPN Gateway

Connecting your infrastructure to the cloud

Industry standard site-to-site IPsec VPNs
Point-to-site VPN access from anywhere

99.9% uptime SLA for VPN gateways
Highly available and easy to manage
Secure connections from anywhere

Azure DNS

Host your domain in Azure for outstanding performance and availability

DNS hosted alongside your apps
Ultra-high availability

Fast DNS queries
Rapid updates to DNS records
Supports all common DNS record types

Traffic Manager

Geo-route incoming traffic to your app for better performance and availability

Improve app availability with automatic failover
Increase your app’s responsiveness
Enable smooth cloud migration

Distribute your app traffic equally or with weighted values
A/B test new deployments
Seamlessly combine on-premises and cloud systems

ExpressRoute

Experience a faster, private connection to Azure

Private connections to Azure
Increased reliability and speed
Lower latency

Higher security
Significant cost benefits possible
Connects directly to your WAN

Network Watcher

Monitor, diagnose, and gain insights to your network performance and health

Remotely capture packet data for your virtual machines

Monitor your virtual machine network security using flow logs and security group view
Diagnose your VPN connectivity issues

Storage

Storage: Blobs, Tables, Queues, Files, Disks

Massively scalable cloud storage for your applications

Security-enhanced, durable, and highly available across the globe
Industry-leading performance with exabytes of capacity

Pay only for what you use
Open, multi-platform support

Data Lake Store

A hyper-scale repository for big data analytics workloads

An Apache Hadoop® Distributed File System for the cloud
No fixed limits on file size
No fixed limits on account size

Unstructured and structured data in their native format
Massive throughput to increase analytic performance
High durability, availability, and reliability
Azure Active Directory access control

StorSimple

An enterprise hybrid cloud storage solution that lowers costs by up to 60%

Consolidate storage infrastructure
Automate data management across the enterprise

Accelerate disaster recovery, improve compliance
Enhance IT agility to support core business

Azure Backup

Simple and reliable cloud integrated backup as a service

Unified solution to protect data on-premises and in the cloud
99.9% availability guaranteed
Reliable offsite backup target

Efficient incremental backups
Secure—data is encrypted in transit and at rest
Geo-replicated backup store

Site Recovery

Orchestrate your disaster recovery plan

Automated protection and replication of virtual machines
Remote health monitoring
Customizable recovery plans

No-impact recovery plan testing
Orchestrated recovery when needed
Replication to—and recovery in—Azure

Web & Mobile

Web Apps

Create and deploy mission-critical web apps that scale with your business.

Supports .NET, Java, PHP, Node.js, and Python
Built-in autoscale and load balancing

High availability with auto-patching
Continuous deployment with Git, TFS, GitHub, and Visual Studio Team Services
Supports WordPress, Umbraco, Joomla, and Drupal

Mobile Apps

Build engaging iOS, Android, and Windows apps

Broadcast push with customer segmentation
Enterprise single sign-on with Active Directory

Autoscale to support millions of devices
Apps can work offline and sync
Social integration with Facebook, Twitter, Google

Logic Apps

Quickly build powerful integration solutions

Create business processes and workflows visually
Integrate with your SaaS and enterprise applications

Unlock value from on-premises and cloud applications
Automate EAI, B2B, and business processes
Take advantage of the Microsoft Cloud to enhance your integration solutions

API Apps

Quickly build and consume APIs in the cloud using the language of your choice

Secure APIs with Active Directory, single sign-on, and OAuth
Generate client proxies or APIs in your language of choice

Mashup existing enterprise APIs
Integrate with API Management and Logic Apps

Content Delivery Network

A powerful multiple provider solution

Multiple providers for your content delivery needs
Global delivery and acceleration of any content to any device
APIs for building global applications fast
Accelerated content and apps performance

Robust security
Backed by massive storage and compute capacity
Control as simple or complex as needed
Advanced real-time analytics

Media Services

Cloud services for premium video workflows

Studio-grade encoding at cloud scale
One player for all your playback needs
Greater discoverability and accessibility of media through media intelligence

Content protection and encryption delivered by AES and PlayReady
On-demand and live video streaming with integrated Content Delivery Network capabilities
Broad ecosystem of value-added partners

Search

Cloud search service for web and mobile app development

Get your search indices up and running quickly
Easily scale up and down as needed
Connect search results to business goals with great control over search ranking

Leverage Microsoft’s deep knowledge of natural language processing
Load and update automatically with integrated indexers
Easily add geo-spatial search to your app

Databases

SQL Database

The developer’s intelligent cloud database

Learn and adapt dynamically with your app
Scale performance on the fly, without app downtime

Build multitenant apps with customer isolation and efficiency
Work within your preferred development environments
Help protect and secure your app data

SQL Data Warehouse

An elastic data warehouse as a service with enterprise-class features.

Petabyte scale with massively parallel processing
Independent scaling of compute and storage—in seconds

Transact-SQL queries across relational and non-relational data
Full enterprise-class SQL Server experience
Works seamlessly with Power BI, Machine Learning, HDInsight, and Data Factory

SQL Server Stretch Database

Dynamically stretch SQL Server databases to Azure

Scale SQL Server 2016 using bottomless cloud storage
Make warm and cold data available to users at low cost
Access and query stretched data online

Move data easily—no query or application changes required
Use with advanced security features like Always Encrypted
Reduce maintenance and storage costs for on-premises data

DocumentDB

NoSQL service for highly available, globally distributed apps—take full advantage of SQL and JavaScript without the hassles of other on-premises or virtual machine-based cloud options.

Guaranteed low latency
Achieve limitless scale
Replicate data globally

Benefits of SQL and JavaScript, schema-free
More choices for consistency
Enterprise grade SLAs

Redis Cache

High throughput, consistent low-latency data access to power fast, scalable Azure applications

Fully managed
High throughput

Low latency
High performance
Secure

Data Factory

Compose and orchestrate data services at scale

Create, schedule, orchestrate, and manage data pipelines
Visualize data lineage

Connect to on-premises and cloud data sources
Monitor data pipeline health
Automate cloud resource management

Intelligence & Analytics

HDInsight

A managed Apache Hadoop, Spark, R, HBase, and Storm cloud service made easy

A Data Lake service
Scale to petabytes on demand
Crunch all data—structured, semi-structured, unstructured
Develop in Java, .NET, and more

Skip buying and maintaining hardware
Spin up Apache Hadoop, Spark, and R clusters in the cloud
Use Excel or your favorite BI tool to visualize Hadoop data
Connect on-premises Hadoop clusters with the cloud

Machine Learning

A fully managed cloud service that enables you to easily build, deploy, and share predictive analytics solutions.

Powerful cloud based analytics, now part of Cortana Intelligence Suite

Azure Machine Learning Studio includes hundreds of built-in packages and support for custom code
Share your solution with the world in the Gallery or on the Azure Marketplace

Cognitive Services

Build powerful intelligence into your applications to enable natural and contextual interactions

Enable natural and contextual interaction with tools that augment users' experiences using the power of machine-based intelligence

Tap into an ever-growing collection of powerful artificial intelligence algorithms for vision, speech, language, and knowledge

Azure Bot Service*

Intelligent, serverless bot service that scales on demand

Start quickly with built-in templates
Reach your users on multiple channels
Boost the power of bots with Azure services

No server management or patching needed
Scale out automatically
Pay only for what you use

Data Lake Analytics

Big data analytics made easy

Analyze any kind of data of any size
Develop faster, debug and optimize smarter
Use U-SQL: simple, familiar, and extensible
Managed and supported with an enterprise-grade SLA

Scale resources to match business priorities
Pay only for the processing power that you use
Built on YARN, designed for the cloud
Benefit from technology proven at Microsoft with more than 10,000 developers

Power BI Embedded

Bring data to life inside your app

Easily author interactive reports without writing any code using Power BI Desktop
Choose modern visualizations out-of-the-box or customize without building them from scratch for your reports
Easily embed interactive visuals in your app using REST APIs and the Power BI SDK

Ensure consistent high-fidelity data experiences on any device
Use your existing authentication and authorization methods
Speed up time to value without redesigning your existing app
Pay only for what you use with no upfront costs

Azure Analysis Services

Proven analytics engine

Get started quickly without managing infrastructure
Scale resources to match your business needs

Visualize your data using your favorite data visualization tool
Govern, deploy, test, and deliver your BI solution with confidence

Internet of Things & Enterprise Integration

Azure IoT Hub

Connect, monitor, and manage billions of IoT assets

Get started quickly
Connect and manage billions of IoT devices and assets
Support a broad set of operating systems and protocols

Establish reliable, bi-directional communication
Enhance the security of your IoT solutions
Ingest real-time data and upload files to the cloud

Event Hubs

Cloud-scale telemetry ingestion from websites, apps, and devices

Log millions of events per second in near real time
Connect devices using flexible authorization and throttling
Use time-based event buffering

Get a managed service with elastic scale
Reach a broad set of platforms using native client libraries
Pluggable adapters for other cloud services

Stream Analytics

Real-time stream processing in the cloud

Perform real-time analytics for your Internet of Things solutions
Stream millions of events per second
Get mission-critical reliability and performance with predictable results

Create real-time dashboards and alerts over data from devices and applications
Correlate across multiple streams of data
Use familiar SQL-based language for rapid development

Notification Hubs

Send push notifications to any platform from any backend

Reach all major platforms—iOS, Android, Windows, Kindle, Baidu
Use any backend, in the cloud or on-premises
Fast broadcast push to millions of mobile devices with single API call

Tailor push notifications by user, language, and location
Dynamically define and notify user segments
Scale instantly to millions of mobile devices

BizTalk Services

Seamlessly integrate the enterprise and the cloud

Get started quickly with Hybrid Connections
Extend on-premises systems to the cloud for hybrid integration

Proven in production—EDI, B2B, Partner, EAI, IOT
Integration partners add industry and integration expertise

Service Bus

Keep apps and devices connected across private and public clouds

Build reliable and elastic cloud apps with messaging
Protect your application from temporary peaks
Distribute messages to multiple independent backend systems

Reach millions of devices with sub-second response times
Decouple your applications from each other
Build solutions that work with existing networks

Data Catalog

Get more value from your enterprise data assets

Spend less time looking for data, and more time getting value from it
Register enterprise data assets
Discover data assets and unlock their potential
Capture tribal knowledge to make data more understandable

Bridge the gap between IT and the business, allowing everyone to contribute their insights
Let your data live where you want it; connect with the tools you choose
Control who can discover registered data assets
Integrate into existing tools and processes with open REST APIs

Security + Identity

Security Center

Prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility into and control over the security of your Azure resources

Understand the security state of all of your Azure resources
Take control of cloud security by defining policies that recommend and monitor security configurations

Make it easy for DevOps to deploy integrated Microsoft and partner security solutions
Find threats with advanced analysis of your security-related events developed using our vast global intelligence assets and expertise
Respond to incidents faster with security alerts that offer insights into the attack and suggestions for remediation

Key Vault

Safeguard cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and services

Increase security and control over keys and passwords
Create and import encryption keys in minutes

Applications have no direct access to keys
Use FIPS 140-2 Level 2 validated HSMs
Reduce latency with cloud scale and global redundancy

Azure Active Directory

Identity and access management for the cloud

Single sign-on to any cloud and on-premises web app
Preintegrated with Salesforce.com, Office 365, Box, and many more
Enforce multi-factor authentication with SaaS

Works with multiple platforms and devices
Integrate with on-premises Active Directory
Enterprise scale and SLA

B2C

Consumer identity and access management in the cloud

Improve connection with your consumers
Pay only for what you use
Scale to hundreds of millions of consumers

Help protect your consumers’ identities
Let consumers use their social media accounts
Customizable workflows for consumer interactions

Domain Services

Your domain controller as a service

“Lift-and-shift” apps to Azure more easily than ever
Use LDAP, Active Directory domain join, NTLM, and Kerberos authentication
Rely on a managed, highly-available service

Get started in minutes, pay as you go
Develop and test with no identity worries
Manage Azure virtual machines effectively using Group Policy

Multi-Factor Authentication

Added security for your data and applications—without added hassles for users

Safeguard access by mobile apps, phone calls, and SMS
Deploy on premises or in the cloud
Reduce risk; meet compliance requirements

Protect Office 365, Salesforce, DropBox, and other SaaS apps
Use with VPN, Microsoft IIS, RADIUS, LDAP
Get real-time fraud monitoring and alerts

Developer Services

Visual Studio Team Services

Services to let teams share code, track work, and ship software—for any language, all in a single package. It’s the perfect complement to your IDE.

Unlimited free private code repositories
Track bugs, work items, feedback, and more
Agile planning tools
Continuous integration builds

Develop in any language
Use Visual Studio, Eclipse, or your own tools
Enterprise-grade services scale to any team size
Free for up to five users

Azure DevTest Labs

Fast, easy, and lean Dev/Test environments

Quickly provision development and test environments
Minimize waste with quotas and policies
Set automated shutdowns to minimize costs

Create a VM in a few clicks with reusable templates
Get going quickly using VMs from pre-created pools
Build Windows and Linux environments

VS Application Insights

Detect, triage, and diagnose issues in your web apps and services

Proactively detect issues through email and webhook alerts
Easily diagnose exceptions and web app performance issues
Perform root cause analysis with ad-hoc queries and full-text search

Integrate with DevOps processes using Visual Studio Team Services
Monitor web apps hosted on Azure, other cloud services, or on-premises servers
Get started with Visual Studio or monitor existing apps without re-deploying

API Management

Publish, manage, secure, and analyze your APIs in minutes

Work with any host, any API, any scale
Secure and optimize your APIs

Attract more developers
Gain insights into your APIs

HockeyApp

Develop, distribute, and beta-test your mobile apps

Support for Android, Cordova, iOS, OS X, Unity, Windows, and Xamarin apps
Get live, reliable crash reports

Collect in-app feedback from real users
Open-source SDKs let you know what code is running in your apps
Integrate with your existing build system and work item management solution

Developer Tools

Easily build, debug, deploy, diagnose, and manage multi-platform, scalable apps and services

Build apps that span IaaS and PaaS
Speed development of enterprise, web, mobile, and Internet of Things apps
Develop on the cloud directly from Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, and IntelliJ

Build cloud apps for Java, Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, or .NET
Run Azure commands from your command-line interface
Diagnose live apps with world-class debuggers, profilers, diagnostic tools, and explorers

Service Profiler*

Solving your hardest performance problems.

Automatically profile Microsoft framework events (or manually declare your own) that matter to you.

Summarize the performance data to find long-tail performance problems.
Easily find the hot path in your code.

Monitoring & Management

Azure Portal

Build, manage, and monitor everything from simple web apps to complex cloud applications in a single, unified console.

Azure Resource Manager

Simplify how you manage your app resources

Deploy resources together and easily repeat deployment tasks

Categorize resources to clarify billing and management
Enable enterprise-grade access control

Azure Advisor

Your personalized Azure best practices recommendation engine

Get actionable recommendations based on your configuration and usage patterns

Optimize for high availability, performance, security, and cost
Easily implement recommendations using inline actions

Azure Monitor

Get the granular, up-to-date monitoring data you need—all in one place

Monitor your Azure resources with detailed logs
Set up alerts, and take proactive, automated actions

Use flexible configuration and data consumption options
Integrate with analytics and notification tools familiar to you

Log Analytics

Gain deeper insight into your environments

Effortlessly collect, store, and analyze log data
Rapidly develop actionable insights using inbuilt intelligence

Investigate and fix incidents quickly
Gain consistent visibility across on-premises and cloud resources

Automation

Simplify cloud management with process automation

Save time and money with automation
Eliminate time-consuming, repetitive tasks
Improve reliability and efficiency

Use with Azure and third-party cloud services
Integrate with any service using PowerShell scripts
Get a highly available automation engine

Scheduler

Run your jobs on simple or complex recurring schedules

Call services inside or outside of Azure
Run jobs on any schedule—now, later, or recurring
Count on it to work reliably, even during unexpected failures

Use Azure Storage queues for long-running or offline jobs
Invoke web service endpoints over HTTP/HTTPS
Invoke Azure Service Bus queues and topics

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