Azure Compute Services

Renting a computer/server from Microsoft instead of buying a physical one

Azure Virtual Machine

A VM is what kind of service type? (IaaS, PaaS, Saas)

Infrastructure as a Service

Create and manage many identical VMs in a group

VM Scale Sets

Protect VMs from hardware failures and planned maintenance by distributing them across Fault Domains and Update Domains.

VM Availability Sets

Azure distributes VMs across these two types of availability sets

Update domain and fault domain

A group of physical hardware that gets rebooted at the same time

Update Domain

A group of physical hardware that shares a common power/network source.

Fault Domain

What is the Microsoft service called that moves the desktop computer experience into Azure instead of on the physical computer?

Azure Virtual Desktop

Virtual machines can only run one operating system, what is the solution to this limitation?

Containers!!

Container

Lightweight solution that bundles a single app + dependencies and deploys it as a unit to a container host

Container Host

Container hosts abstracts away the operating system, allowing multiple containerized apps to run simultaneously

VMs virtualize the ___ while containers virtualize the ___

VMs virtualize the hardware while containers virtualize the operating system

PaaS Azure service to run a container in Azure

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

PaaS Azure service to run your container like ACI, but adds built-in scaling and load balancing

Azure Container App

Distributing incoming network traffic across multiple servers/VMs so that no single server gets overwhelmed.

Load Balancing

Container orchestration service that manages the life cycle of containers. Helpful when deploying a fleet of services.

Azure Kubernetes Service

What is the severless service that runs your code when an event is triggered

Azure Functions

Stateless Functions

Doesn’t remember what happened previously

Stateful (durable) Functions

Maintains information about previous activity by passing context between executions

What is the service that provides prebuilt AI capabilities?

Azure AI Service

What is the service that lets you use generative AI models in Azure?

Azure OpenAI Service

Application pattern where an AI model can use instructions, context, and tools to accomplish multistep tasks

Agentic AI

What service allows you to build, train, and manage custom ML models?

Azure ML

What service connects IoT devices to azure ad allows 2-way communication?

IoT Hub

What is the ready to use SaaS platform for managing IoT solutions

IoT Central

What functionality lets you run cloud workloads directly on or near IoT devices? (brings cloud processing down to the devices)

IoT Edge or edge computing

What service lets you build and host web apps, background jobs, mobile backends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure

Azure App Services

What is used to run applications in Azure without the need of a VM, or provisioned server.

Azure Container Instance