Azure

Last updated Jul 9, 2023 Edit Source

• Azure
• Microsoft
• Cloud

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• US
• Azure Government US
• Canada
• Brazil
• Mexico

58 Regions available across 140 Countries

Each region is pared with another region 300 miles away. One region is updated at a time to ensure no outages Services are relied on pared region for Disaster Recovery

Has specialised regions to meet compliance or legal reasons

• US DoD Central
• US Gov Virginia
• US Gov Iowa
• China East
• China North

Alternate or Other will not have support for AZ. The Regions with atleast 3 AZs are:

• Central US
• East US 2
• West US 2
• Went Europe
• France Central
• North Europe
• Southeast Asia

• A physical location made up of one or more data-center.
• A region will generally contain 3 AZs
• Data-centers within a region will be isolate from each other.
• For high availability it is common to run workloads on at least 3AZs

Fault Domain is a logical grouping of hardware to avoid a single point of failure within an AZ

Update Domain is used when Azure needs to apply updates to the underlying hardware and software. (Azure make sure by using update domain to eliminate downtime)

Availability Set is a logical grouping that can be configured in Azure to ensure that the VMs are placed in different fault/update domains to avoid downtime.

• Azure VM
• Azure Container Instances (Docker as a Service)
• Azure kubernetes Service (Kubernetes as a Service)
• Azure Service Fabric (Tier-1 Enterprise Container as a Service)
• Azure Functions
• Azure Batch

• Azure Blob storage
• Azure Disk Storage (Similar to EBS)
• Azure File Storage (NFS, Similar to EFS)
• *Azure Queue Storage (Messaging Queue)
• *Azure Table Storage (Wide column NoSQL Database)
• Azure Data Box/Azure Databox Heavy (Rugged breifcase computer)
• Azure Archive Storage (Long term cold storage)
• Azure Data Lake Storage (centralized repository like Snowflake)

• Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL database)
• Azure SQL Database (MS SQL database)
• Azure Database for MySQL/PLSQL/MariaDB
• SQL Server on VMs (lift and shift existing on-prem sql server dbs)
• Azure Synapse Analytics (Azure SQL Data Warehouse)
• Azure Database Migration Service
• Azure Cache for Redis
• *Azure Table Storage

• Azure Notifications Hub (SNS)
• Azure API Apps (Essentially API Gateways)
• Azure Service Bus (Messaging as a service SES)
• Azure Stream Analytics (Serverless real-time analytics)
• Azure Logic apps
• Azure API Management (add in front of an existing APIs)
• *Azure Queue service (SQS)

• Azure Signal Service (Real-time Messaging)
• Azure App Service (PaaS like Heroku)
• Visual Studio (IDE code editor)
• Xamarin (Mobile app framework)

Azure devops is basically a Azure Boards Azure Pipelines Azure Repos Azure Test Plans (manual and exploratory testing tools like cyprus.io) Azure Artifacts Azure DevTest Labs

IaC of Azure, Azure Resources Manager or ARM allows you to create Azure resources via Json templates.

Azure QuickStart is a library of pre-made ARM templates provided by the community and partners to help you quickly launch new projects for a variety of stack scenarios

vNet is a logically isolated section of Azure Network where you launch your Azure resources. you choose a CIDR range to be used within the network.

Subnet is a logical partition of an IP network to breakup the IP-ranges within a vNet. The CIDRs range must be smaller than the vNets. There could be Public or Private Subnets.

• Azure DNS (like Route 53)
• Azure Virtual Network (vNet)
• Azure Load Balancer (OSI level 4 (Transport) Load Balancer)
• Azure Application Gateway (OSI Layer 7 HTTP load balancer, WAF applicable)
• Network Security Groups (NSGs) (virtual firewall at subnet level)

• Azure Frontdoor ()
• Azure Express Route (Connection between On-prem to cloud)
• Virtual WAN
• Azure Connection (VPN connection)
• Virtual Network Gateway (A site to site VPN)

This allows you to group together identical virtual machines and automatically increase or decrease the amount of servers based on:

• change in CPU, memory, disk and network performance
• On a predefined schedule

Similar to AWS EC2 auto scaling groups.

• IoT central (device-cloud connection)
• IoT Hub (device-application connection)
• IoT Edge (edge computing)
• Windows 10 IOT Core Services

• Azure Synapse Analytics (Enterprise data warehousing and BD analytics)
• HDInsight (Runs Open-source analytics software like Hadoop, Kafka, Spark)
• Azure Databricks (Apace Spark based analytic platform)
• Data Lake Analytics

• Azure Machine Learning Service
• Personalizer
• Translator
• Anomaly Detector
• Azure Bot Service
• Form Recognizer
• Computer Vision
• Language understanding
• QnA maker (QA bot)
• Text Analytics
• Content Moderator
• Face
• ink Recogniser (OCR)

Highly Available, Scaleable, and Cost-effective solution that could be Event Driven Scaled, Abstract Servers, and ** Bill in microseconds for cost effectiveness**.

• Azure Functions
• Blob storage
• Logic Apps (Like Lambda step function)
• Event Grid (pub/sub to trigger other services)

Azure Portal is a web based, unified console as an alternative to azure cli. There are also Azure Preview Portal to utilize new features. preview.portal.azure.com

Azure CLI Supported on Windows, Mac and Linux and can be used to manage Azure resources via CLI.

PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework. Can be used as a command-line shell and a scripting language like bash. It is built on top of .NET Common Language Runtime, it accepts and returns .Net objects.

Azure PowerShell are a set of cmdlets for managing Azure resources directly from PowerShell command Line

Azure Cloud Shell is and interactive, authenticated browser-accessible shell for managing azure resources via Bash or PowerShell.

Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor.