Azure AD Access Reviews help you manage group memberships, access to enterprise applications, and role assignments. They enable you to ensure that only the right people have access to resources, improving security and compliance.
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Azure AD Application Proxy enables secure remote access to on-premises web applications by leveraging Azure Active Directory. It provides seamless single sign-on (SSO) and conditional access policies to ensure secure and convenient access to corporate resources.
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Azure AD Conditional Access is a tool used by Azure Active Directory to enforce access controls to your applications based on specific conditions. It allows you to create policies that provide a secure access environment by assessing signals such as user location, device state, and risk levels.
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Azure AD Connect is a tool that connects your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory. It enables hybrid identity by synchronizing user accounts, groups, and other directory objects, providing a common identity for accessing both cloud and on-premises resources.
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Azure AD Enterprise Applications allow organizations to manage and integrate third-party applications and custom applications with Azure Active Directory for centralized access management, single sign-on (SSO), and enhanced security features.
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Azure AD Identity Protection is a tool that helps organizations protect their user identities and mitigate identity-based risks. It leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect suspicious activities and provide actionable insights to address potential security threats.
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Azure AD Security Defaults are preconfigured security settings in Microsoft Entra ID designed to protect organizations from identity-related attacks. They provide a basic level of security at no extra cost, making it easier for organizations to secure their environments without complex configurations.
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Azure AD Smart Lockout is a feature that helps protect user accounts from brute force attacks by locking out malicious attempts while allowing legitimate users to continue accessing their accounts. It uses machine learning to differentiate between real users and attackers, providing an additional layer of security.
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OpenID Connect (OIDC) is a standard protocol for user authentication that is widely used in the context of internet security.
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Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions to improve the performance, security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of your Azure resources.
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Azure Alerts and Action Groups enable you to monitor and respond to critical conditions across your Azure resources. They help you create and manage alerts and automate actions in response to those alerts, ensuring your applications and services are running smoothly.
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Azure App Service Plan provides the underlying infrastructure for hosting web apps, mobile app backends, RESTful APIs, or automated business processes. It allows you to scale your applications and manage resources efficiently.
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Azure App Services is a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web apps, mobile app backends, and RESTful APIs. It provides a range of services and features to help you create and manage applications efficiently.
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Azure Application Insights is a monitoring service that helps you understand the performance and usage of your applications. It provides deep diagnostics, detects and diagnoses issues, and analyzes application usage patterns to improve the overall performance and user experience.
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Azure Application Proxy is a feature of Microsoft Entra ID that provides secure remote access to on-premises web applications. It allows users to access internal applications from anywhere without the need for a VPN, using a secure external URL.
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Azure Availability Sets and Zones are designed to ensure high availability and fault tolerance for your applications. By distributing resources across multiple fault domains and update domains, they minimize downtime and maintain business continuity even during planned maintenance or unexpected outages.
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Azure Backup is a cloud-based service that provides simple, secure, and cost-effective solutions to back up your data and recover it from the Microsoft Azure cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads, including Azure VMs, on-premises servers, SQL databases, and more.
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Azure Batch is a cloud-based job scheduling service that enables you to run large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) applications efficiently in the cloud. It allows you to scale your applications and manage resources effectively.
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Azure Blueprints is a service that enables cloud architects and central IT groups to define a repeatable set of Azure resources that adhere to an organization’s standards, patterns, and requirements. It simplifies the deployment of compliant environments by packaging artifacts such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, role-based access control (RBAC), and policies into a single blueprint definition.
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Azure Cache for Redis is a fully managed, in-memory data store based on the open-source Redis software. It provides high throughput and low-latency access to data, making it ideal for applications that require fast data retrieval and processing. Azure Cache for Redis can be used for caching, session management, real-time analytics, and more.
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Azure CDN is a global solution for rapidly delivering high-bandwidth content to users by caching content at strategically placed physical nodes across the world. It improves performance, scalability, and security for web applications and content delivery.
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Azure Compute Availability ensures that your virtual machines (VMs) and other compute resources are highly available and resilient to failures. It provides various features and services to help you achieve high availability and reliability for your applications.
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Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a service that enables you to run containers in a managed, serverless environment. ACI allows you to deploy containers without managing underlying virtual machines or infrastructure, providing an efficient way to run containerized applications.
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Azure Container Registry is a managed, private Docker registry service that allows you to build, store, and manage container images and artifacts. It integrates seamlessly with Azure services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure DevOps, and more, providing a secure and scalable solution for container lifecycle management.
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Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed, globally distributed NoSQL and relational database service designed for modern app development. It offers high performance, high availability, and support for multiple data models, making it ideal for building scalable and responsive applications.
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Azure Data Factory is a fully managed, serverless data integration service that allows you to visually integrate data sources with more than 90 built-in connectors. It simplifies the creation of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) processes, enabling you to construct data pipelines and transform data at scale.
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Azure Database Migration Service provides a comprehensive and fully managed solution for migrating databases to Azure. It enables seamless migration of SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other database workloads to Azure, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity. The service supports both online and offline migrations, making it easier to modernize your database infrastructure.
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Azure Event Grid is a fully managed event routing service that enables you to build event-driven architectures with ease. It allows you to react to events in near real-time by routing them to various Azure services and custom endpoints. Event Grid supports a wide range of event sources and handlers, making it a versatile solution for building scalable and reliable applications.
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Azure Firewall is a cloud-native and intelligent network firewall security service that provides best-of-breed threat protection for your cloud workloads running in Azure. It is fully stateful with built-in high availability and unrestricted cloud scalability, offering both east-west and north-south traffic inspection.
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Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications. It provides global load balancing, application acceleration, and security features to ensure your applications are fast, reliable, and secure.
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Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run event-driven code without having to provision or manage infrastructure. It supports various programming languages and integrates with other Azure services, making it a flexible and scalable solution for building applications.
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Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and cryptographic keys. It provides centralized management of secrets, key management, and certificate management, ensuring secure and controlled access to sensitive information.
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies the deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes clusters. It offers built-in monitoring, scaling, and security features, making it ideal for running containerized applications at scale.
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Azure Landing Zones provide a foundational architecture to deploy and manage your Azure environment, ensuring consistency, security, and governance across your resources. They are built based on best practices and offer a scalable approach to deploying Azure services.
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Azure Load Balancer provides high availability and network performance by distributing incoming traffic among multiple virtual machines (VMs). It offers load balancing for various protocols and ensures your applications are resilient and scalable.
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Azure Log Analytics Workspace is a data store that allows you to collect, analyze, and visualize log data from your Azure and non-Azure resources. It provides a centralized platform for monitoring, troubleshooting, and gaining insights into your infrastructure and applications.
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Azure Managed Identities provide an automatically managed identity in Azure Active Directory for applications to use when connecting to resources that support Azure AD authentication. This eliminates the need for developers to manage credentials, enhancing security and simplifying the development process.
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Azure Management Groups provide a governance scope above subscriptions, allowing you to efficiently manage access, policies, and compliance for multiple Azure subscriptions. They help you organize your resources into a hierarchy for unified policy and access management, making it easier to apply governance controls at scale.
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Azure Migrate is a comprehensive service that helps you discover, assess, and migrate your on-premises workloads to Azure. It provides a unified platform for migration and modernization, offering tools and guidance to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud.
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Azure Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring solution that helps you collect, analyze, and respond to telemetry data from your cloud and on-premises environments. It provides insights into the performance and health of your applications and infrastructure, enabling you to maximize availability and performance.
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Azure NetApp Files is an enterprise-class, high-performance file storage service that provides scalable and flexible file shares using protocols like NFS and SMB. It supports multiple performance tiers and integrates seamlessly with Azure services, offering a robust solution for file storage needs.
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Azure Network Watcher is a comprehensive network monitoring and diagnostic service that provides tools to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into your network performance. It helps you troubleshoot network issues, monitor network security, and optimize network performance.
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Azure Policy helps you manage and enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at-scale. It allows you to create, assign, and manage policies that enforce different rules and effects over your resources, ensuring they stay compliant with your corporate standards.
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Azure Private Link provides a secure and scalable way to consume Azure services and resources over a private endpoint in your virtual network. By using Private Link, you can ensure that traffic between your virtual network and the Azure service remains on the Microsoft backbone network, reducing the risk of exposure to the public internet.
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Azure Proximity Placement Groups help improve the performance of applications by reducing latency between virtual machines. They ensure that the VMs are physically located close to each other within the Azure datacenter, thereby minimizing network latency and enhancing application performance. This feature is particularly useful for applications that require low latency and high throughput, such as high-performance computing (HPC) and financial services applications.
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Azure Queue Storage is a service for storing large numbers of messages. It enables asynchronous communication between application components, providing a reliable and scalable messaging solution for cloud-based applications.
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Azure Resource Locks help you protect your resources from accidental deletion or modification. By applying locks, you can ensure that critical resources remain secure and unchanged unless explicitly unlocked.
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Azure Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) solution that provides intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise. It helps detect, investigate, and respond to threats, providing a comprehensive view of your security posture.
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Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker that ensures reliable communication and coordination between different applications and services. It provides a robust platform for asynchronous messaging, enabling decoupling and scaling of microservices and distributed systems.
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Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that simplifies the packaging, deployment, and management of scalable and reliable microservices and containers. It supports both stateless and stateful microservices, providing a robust environment for building and managing cloud-native applications.
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Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) define the performance standards and uptime guarantees for Azure services. They provide a commitment from Microsoft to ensure high availability and reliability for your applications and services.
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Azure Service Map automatically discovers application components on Windows and Linux systems and maps the communication between services, providing detailed insights into dependencies and performance.
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Azure Spot Instances provide a cost-effective way to run workloads by taking advantage of unused capacity in Azure. They offer significant cost savings compared to pay-as-you-go prices but come with the risk of eviction when Azure needs the capacity back.
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Azure SQL is a family of fully managed, secure, and scalable database services that include Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines. It offers multiple deployment options for SQL Server workloads, providing flexibility and performance for various application needs.
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Azure Always On Availability Groups provide a high availability and disaster recovery solution for SQL Server, ensuring continuous data protection and minimal downtime for your applications. They allow you to achieve high availability and load balancing for your critical databases, making it easier to manage and scale your SQL Server deployments on Azure.
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Azure Storage Accounts provide a scalable and secure storage solution for a variety of data types, including blobs, files, queues, and tables. They offer high availability, durability, and redundancy, making it an ideal choice for storing and accessing data in the cloud. Azure Storage Accounts also support multiple storage tiers to optimize costs and performance based on data access patterns.
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Azure Storage Pools allow you to combine multiple managed disks into a single storage pool, aggregating their size and performance. This can provide performance benefits and cost savings by using multiple smaller disks instead of a single large disk. Storage Pools use simple (RAID 0) configuration and do not support parity (RAID 5).
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Azure Stream Analytics provides a real-time analytics service that can process and analyze fast-moving streams of data from various sources. It is designed to handle complex event processing and can be used to derive insights and trigger actions based on streaming data. Azure Stream Analytics integrates seamlessly with other Azure services and offers a fully managed solution for real-time analytics.
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Azure Synapse Analytics is an enterprise analytics service that accelerates time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems. It integrates SQL technologies used in enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies for big data, and Data Explorer for log and time series analytics, providing a unified experience for data integration, exploration, and analysis.
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Azure Tags provide a way to organize and categorize Azure resources based on various criteria, enabling efficient resource management and cost tracking.
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Azure Traffic Analytics is a cloud-based solution that provides visibility into your network traffic by analyzing Network Security Group (NSG) flow logs. It helps you monitor and diagnose network issues, detect security threats, and optimize network performance.
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Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic to your public-facing applications across global Azure regions. It provides high availability, performance, and responsiveness by directing client requests to the most appropriate service endpoint based on traffic-routing methods.
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Azure vCPU Quotas help manage the number of virtual CPUs (vCPUs) that can be used within a subscription in a specific region. They ensure that resources are allocated efficiently and prevent over-provisioning.
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Azure VM Extensions are small applications that provide post-deployment configuration and automation tasks on Azure virtual machines. They help you manage and maintain your VMs by automating tasks such as installing software, configuring settings, and monitoring the VM’s health.
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Azure Web Apps is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) that enables you to build, deploy, and scale web applications quickly and efficiently. It supports multiple programming languages and frameworks, providing a robust environment for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends.
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Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft that provides interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities with an interface simple enough for end users to create their own reports and dashboards. It connects to a wide range of data sources and helps organizations make data-driven decisions.
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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery solution that helps protect your data and ensure business continuity. It supports application-aware backups, file backups, system backups, and virtual machine backups, making it a versatile tool for comprehensive data protection.
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Raspberry Pi Imager is a tool for easily flashing operating system images onto SD cards for use with Raspberry Pi and other devices
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