Azure Cloud Basics

#

We will look at few key cloud terminologies that you would need to know.

Virtual Machines

#

• Windows or Linux OS
• Can be remotely accessed via RDP or SSH
• Can be created quickly, less than 10 mins
• Can install anything on it
• Placed in a virtual network

Virtual machines are one of the foundational building blocks of cloud computing. Some virtual machine abstractions; i.e. services built on top of virtual machines; are,

• Azure Batch
• Virtual Machine Sets
• Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS)
• Service Fabric

App Service

#

• Web Apps or container apps
• Fully managed servers, no remote access
• Lots of benefits in scaling, CI, deployment slots, integration with VS Code
• Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, etc

Storage

#

• Create storage accounts upto 5 PB
• Blobs, Queues, tables, files
• Various levels of replication - global, local
• Different storage tiers - hot, co0l, archive

Data Services

#

SQL Related

#

• Azure SQL DB
• Azure SQL Managed Instance
• SQL Server on VM
• Synapse Analytics(SQL Data Warehouse)

Other

#

• Cosmos DB
• Azure DB for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgresSQL
• Azure Cache for Redis

Microservices

#

• Service Fabric
• Azure Functions
• Azure Logic Apps
• AKS(Azure Kubernetes Services)