Azure Services Overview

Flashcards covering key Azure services and their functions for exam preparation.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

A cloud-native security service that helps protect Azure and hybrid resources from threats and misconfigurations. Includes threat detection, vulnerability management, and security recommendations.

Azure Policy

Enforce organizational standards and compliance by applying rules to your Azure resources. Automatically audits and remediates non-compliant configurations.

Azure Blueprints

Defining and deploying a repeatable set of Azure resources with governance, policy, and RBAC assignments, ensuring consistent and compliant environments.

Service Trust Portal

Microsoft’s compliance documentation, audit reports, and trust resources to support regulatory needs.

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory)

Azure's cloud-based identity and access management service for single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication, and access policies.

Microsoft Entra Connect Health Monitor

The health and sync status of Entra ID Connect between on-prem Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, helping troubleshoot identity issues.

Azure Key Vault

Secrets, keys, passwords, and certificates, providing access control and auditing for sensitive data management.

Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

A tool to manage, control, and monitor access to privileged roles in Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). It enables just-in-time (JIT) access, approval workflows, and time-bound role assignments to reduce the risk of excessive permissions.

Microsoft Entra ID Protection

User behavior and signals (like login location, device, risk patterns) to detect risky sign-ins and compromised accounts. Automatically applies risk-based conditional access policies to protect identities.

Microsoft Defender for Identity

A cloud-based security solution that helps detect and investigate advanced threats and insider attacks by monitoring on-premises Active Directory traffic and user behavior.

Azure Sphere

An end-to-end security solution for IoT devices and microcontrollers (MCUs), including a secured chip, a custom Linux-based OS, and a cloud security service to ensure device integrity, updates, and threat detection.

Azure CycleCloud

A tool to create, manage, and optimize HPC (High Performance Computing) clusters in Azure. It automates provisioning, scaling, and job scheduling, ideal for research, simulations, and scientific workloads.

Microsoft Sentinel

A cloud-native SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system that provides intelligent security analytics, threat detection, and automated response across your organization — using AI and integrated threat intelligence.

Azure Storage

A suite of cloud storage services including blobs, files, queues, and tables. Offers scalable, durable, and secure storage for any workload.

Azure Blob Storage

Object storage optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data like backups, media, or logs.

Azure Files

Fully managed file shares accessible via SMB or NFS protocols, usable across cloud and on-prem systems.

Azure File Sync

Extends your on-prem file servers with cloud storage by syncing them to Azure Files, enabling hybrid file share setups.

Azure Managed Disks

Persistent block storage for Azure VMs with options for encryption, backups, and snapshots, simplifying disk management.

Azure Data Box

Physical device used to transfer large amounts of data (terabytes or petabytes) to Azure when network transfer is impractical.

Azure Storage Explorer

Graphical tool to manage and access Azure Storage accounts and contents locally or remotely.

AzCopy

Command-line utility to transfer data between on-premises storage and Azure Storage efficiently and securely.

Azure Cosmos DB

Globally distributed NoSQL database service designed for low-latency and high-throughput applications.

Azure Monitor

Full-stack monitoring and observability for applications, infrastructure, and network. Supports metrics, logs, and alerts.

Azure Application Insights

Detect, diagnose, and understand performance issues in web applications.

Azure Advisor

Best practice recommendations on cost savings, performance improvements, high availability, and security posture.

Azure Service Health

Azure service incidents, planned maintenance, and health advisories that affect your resources.

Azure Application

Layer 7 load balancer with built-in Web Application Firewall (WAF) for routing HTTP/HTTPS traffic and protecting web apps.

Azure Front Door

High-performance global HTTP/HTTPS load balancing, content acceleration, SSL offloading, and web app firewall.

Azure Load Balancer

A Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) load balancer that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple Azure virtual machines or services. It supports high availability, scalability, and automatic failover for both inbound and outbound traffic scenarios.

Azure Traffic Manager

Uses DNS-based routing to direct users to the nearest or healthiest endpoint to improve responsiveness and availability.

Azure Virtual WAN

A networking service that provides a unified hub-and-spoke architecture to connect branch offices, remote users, and VNets through a central global hub. It simplifies large-scale connectivity with automated routing and built-in security.

Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)

A globally distributed network of servers that caches and delivers web content, videos, scripts, and images closer to end users. Reduces latency and improves performance for users worldwide.

Azure ExpressRoute

A private, dedicated connection from your on-premises data center to Azure, bypassing the public internet. Offers higher reliability, security, and speeds — ideal for enterprise or compliance-heavy workloads.

Azure Private Link

Securely access Azure services over a private IP within your virtual network, avoiding exposure to the public internet. Useful for connecting to PaaS services like Azure Storage, SQL, or partner services securely.

Azure Artifacts

Integrated package management (npm, NuGet, Maven, etc.) for development teams using Azure DevOps.

Azure DevOps

Complete suite of development tools for source control, build pipelines, project tracking, and CI/CD workflows.

Azure Logic Apps

Low-code/no-code workflow automation by connecting apps, services, and data across cloud and on-premises.

Azure Data Factory

Cloud-based ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service for integrating, transforming, and orchestrating data flows at scale.

Azure Migrate

Discovering, assessing, and migrating on-premises servers, databases, and apps to Azure.

Azure Site Recovery

Disaster recovery service that replicates workloads running on physical or virtual machines to Azure for failover.

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Run containers without managing servers or clusters. Fast, lightweight way to deploy containerized apps.

Azure Service Fabric

Microservices platform for building and operating scalable, reliable, and distributed cloud applications.

Azure Marketplace

An online store with thousands of pre-built solutions, applications, and services certified to run on Azure.

Microsoft Purview

A unified data governance solution that helps you manage, classify, and protect sensitive data across your entire data estate. It enables data discovery, lineage tracking, and compliance through automated policies and insights.