1. Computing
Create virtual machines with Windows, Linux and others in just a few clicks. Then health monitoring and provisioning etc are all taken care of by Azure. You can also create applications in any language with Service Fabric and Azure will take care of the rest – no more need to worry about hardware requirements.
2. Networking
With the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) you can “bounce” data to multiple data centers around the world with ease. This means your team (or customers!) can access what they need in the fastest possible time. Additionally, you can keep your networks secure and private within the cloud to protect your precious data and intel.
3. Storage
When it comes to storage, you may still want to utilize some of your HDD (Hard disk drive). Azure allows you to do this, or to capitalize on the virtual storage space. With “Blob Storage” you can save huge volumes of unstructured data. And Queue Storage enables you to queue large workloads with stability.
4. Internet of Things (IoT)
This is a collection of Microsoft-managed cloud services that connect, monitor, and control billions of IoT assets. In simpler terms, an IoT solution is made up of one or more IoT devices that communicate with one or more back-end services hosted in the cloud.
5. Migration
Azure Migrate helps with cloud planning migration, but, it does not complete the physical migration. Instead, it helps to assess on-premises resources and plan your move with insights.
6. Mobile
With Azure Mobile, you can build fast, performing and engaging apps, quickly add corporate sign in and use offline data. Additionally, you can connect apps to on-prem data, broadcast personalized push notifications to millions in minutes and auto-scale to fit your business.
7. Analytics
This is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS). It provides enterprise-grade data models in the cloud. Use advanced mashup and modeling features to combine data from multiple data sources, define metrics, and secure your data in a single, trusted tabular semantic data model.
8. Containers
Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a managed service that allows you to run containers directly on the Microsoft Azure public cloud, without requiring the use of virtual machines (VMs). It supports both Windows and Linux machines. Imagine the possibilities with your Kubernetes containers.
9. Artificial intelligence
Azure AI is a portfolio of services specifically designed for developers and data scientists. It allows you to deep-dive into decades of breakthrough research. Additionally, you can explore responsible AI practices, or build and deploy your own AI solutions.
10. Machine learning
With Azure Machine Learning, you can create a model in Azure Machine Learning or use a model built from an open-source platform, such as Pytorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn. MLOps tools help you monitor, retrain, and redeploy models.
11. Integration
Azure Integration Services (AIS) are a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables you to transfer data between various systems with ease.
12. Management tools
With Azure management and governance tools, your system administrators and developers keep your resources secure and compliant.
13. Developer tools
With a breadth of Azure developer tools, you can build, debug, deploy, and manage cloud applications. Furthermore, you can do this with ease in a variety of programming languages.
14. Security
Protect both your infrastructure and data with peace of mind using Azure’s built-in security services. Azure is an incredibly secure platform that enables threat detection for your cloud data.
15. Databases
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database engine. It handles most of the database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without user involvement.
16. DevOps
Azure DevOps imbues a DevOps culture. It’s built both on, and for, collaboration and strives to harmonize project managers, developers, IT people, business people and more. If you’re still exploring how to improve DevOps in your business, check out these tips on how to choose the right tools for your team. Or take a look at this blog that explores what a great DevOps team looks like in SMBs.
17. Managed identity
Managed identities provide an automatically managed identity in Azure Active Directory. (You can find out more about What is Azure Directory here.) Applications can use managed identities to obtain Azure AD tokens without having to manage any credentials.
18. Web services
App Service adds the power of Microsoft Azure, such as security, and its DevOps capabilities, such as continuous deployment from Azure DevOps, GitHub, and other sources, package management, staging environments, custom domain, and TLS/SSL certificates. And you can do all this whilst developing in your favorite programming language.
