Microsoft Azure
Fresh81% completeMicrosoft Azure is a hyperscale cloud platform delivering 200+ services across compute, storage, networking, databases, AI/ML, analytics, and security across 60+ global regions. Practitioners interact primarily through the Azure Portal, CLI, ARM/Bicep templates, and REST APIs; billing is almost entirely consumption-metered with no seat minimums. It is the second-largest public cloud by market share and is tightly integrated with Microsoft's enterprise stack including Entra ID, GitHub, Microsoft 365, and Teams.
Products
- Azure Virtual MachinesactiveVirtual machine provisioning and lifecycle management on shared or dedicated bare-metal infrastructure
On-demand IaaS Linux/Windows VMs spanning general-purpose, compute/memory/storage-optimized, GPU, and Arm-based (Cobalt) SKUs.
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)activeManaged Kubernetes cluster provisioning, upgrades, node pool scaling, and control-plane operations
Managed Kubernetes with a Microsoft-operated control plane; worker nodes run as Azure VMs billed in the customer's subscription.
- Azure App ServiceactiveManaged web hosting runtime with horizontal auto-scaling, blue/green deployment slots, and custom domain/SSL management
PaaS for deploying web apps, REST APIs, and mobile backends in .NET, Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, or custom containers with auto-scaling and deployment slots.
- Azure FunctionsactiveServerless function execution with cold-start management, consumption-based billing, and Durable Functions for stateful orchestration
Event-driven serverless compute that executes code in response to HTTP, queue, timer, Service Bus, or Event Grid triggers without provisioning servers.
- Azure Blob StorageactiveObject storage with tiered durability, versioning, lifecycle rules, immutable storage, and SAS-URL or private endpoint access controls
Massively scalable object storage with hot, cool, cold, and archive access tiers and lifecycle management policies.
- Azure SQL DatabaseactiveManaged relational database engine with automatic backups, geo-replication, patching, and serverless pause/resume billing
Fully managed SQL Server-compatible relational database with a serverless compute tier, elastic pools, and a Hyperscale option for large-scale workloads.
- Azure Cosmos DBactiveDistributed NoSQL database engine supporting document, key-value, graph, and column APIs with configurable consistency and automatic multi-region replication
Globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database with single-digit millisecond latency, multi-region writes, and five selectable consistency levels.
- Azure OpenAI ServiceactiveLLM inference API with fine-tuning, embeddings, DALL-E, and Whisper endpoints running on Azure-sovereign, tenant-isolated infrastructure
Enterprise-grade REST API access to OpenAI models (GPT-4o, o1, o3) hosted on Azure infrastructure with data residency, VNet isolation, and Microsoft compliance commitments.
- Azure AI FoundryactiveEnd-to-end MLOps and agentic AI orchestration including model catalog, fine-tuning pipelines, evaluation harnesses, and governed production deployment
Unified platform for building, evaluating, fine-tuning, and deploying AI models and agentic workflows, consolidating the former Azure ML Studio and AI Studio surfaces.
- Microsoft Entra IDactiveIdentity provider with OAuth/OIDC/SAML federation, conditional access policies, Privileged Identity Management, and B2C/B2B guest access
Cloud identity platform providing SSO, MFA, conditional access, and RBAC for Azure resources and third-party SaaS applications (formerly Azure Active Directory).
- Azure DevOpsactiveCloud-hosted DevOps toolchain with pipeline execution agents, artifact storage, work item tracking, and test result aggregation
Integrated suite of YAML CI/CD pipelines, Git repos, agile boards, test plans, and artifact feeds for software delivery teams.
- Azure MonitoractiveTelemetry ingestion, storage, and KQL querying over Log Analytics workspaces with alerting, dashboards, and workbooks
Unified observability service collecting metrics, logs, and traces from Azure resources, VMs, and instrumented applications via Application Insights.
- Microsoft FabricactiveIntegrated analytics platform with lakehouse, warehouse, Spark, KQL, and BI workloads sharing a single OneLake storage tier with unified governance
Unified analytics SaaS platform combining data engineering, data warehousing, real-time analytics, Power BI, and data science over a shared OneLake storage layer.
- Azure ArcactiveHybrid and multi-cloud control plane extension using Azure Resource Manager APIs applied to non-Azure infrastructure via an installed agent
Projects the Azure management plane — RBAC, Policy, Monitor, Defender — onto on-premises servers, Kubernetes clusters, and resources in other clouds.