Azure Service Name

Azure Service Description

Azure Active Directory

Azure AD is designed to deliver identity management and access control. Synchronizations between on premises AD and Azure AD is supported.

API Management

API Management allows publishers to manage API via secure and scalable infrastructure.

Application Insights

Insights allows webmasters to detect problems before they are reported by the users and proactively track web application performance.

Azure Automation

Automations are designed to help with Azure Environment creation, deployment and monitoring automation tasks.

Azure Backup

Backup helps with backup tasks generally available via Winodws Server 2012 and System Center 2012.

Batch

Batch Service offers easy to run Big Data and High Performance Computing workloads. You can use Batch to manage execution of tasks in the queue.

Azure BizTalk

Azure version of BizTalk is another version on premise BizTalk and it has several unique features specific to Azure. Azure BizTalk helps with B2B and EAI needs. It can work in hybrid as well as in cloud environments.

Azure CDN

Azure Content Delivery Network is designed to help you deliver digital content such as videos, images, pdf and other types of files across the globe.  

Cloud Services

Modern solution to your web hosting needs. There is no direct access to IIS and you manage your deployments to Cloud services directly from Visual Studio.

Data Factory

Azure Data factory is new service that helps developer orchestrate and manage data workflows across enterprise grade network infrastructure.

DocumentDB

Azure version of NoSQL Database service with querying capabilities and enterprise grade infrastructure.

Event Hubs

Azure Event Hubs enables applications to process events. It is designed to handle millions of events and useful for implementation of connected devices with Azure Cloud.

Azure ExpressRoute

ExpressRoute is designed to enable private connections between Azure cloud based infrastructures with your on premise environments.

HDInsight

Azure HDInsight is Hadoop based service designed to the cloud. It helps manage BigData in easy and accessible way.

Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is designed to manage secrets and sensitive keys using Hardware Security Modules.

Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning is designed to manage predictive analytics in the cloud.

Managed Cache

Managed Cache offers scalable solution for building highly scalable applications on fast access Microsoft infrastructure.

Azure Media Services

Media Service is designed to help encode, format and copyright protect media via on-demand or stream.

Mobile Engagement

Mobile enables user segments as well as real time analytics and push notifications across all connected devices. It helps developers as well as marketers to reach their targeted audience.

Mobile Services

Azure Mobile services help develop mobile solutions on iOS, Android or Windows. It is designed to help with authentication, data storage and push notifications.

Multi-Factor Authentication

Multi-Factor Authentication provides secure layer of authentication in order to prevent unauthorized access to cloud or on premise apps.

Notification Hubs

Azure Notification Hubs enables broadcast push of notifications that works across platform infrastructures.

Operational Insights

Azure Insights is an alternative to NewRelic and other similar tools. It is designed to capture all type of logs produced by your hardware including event, network, performance logs as well as website usage analytics.

Azure Redis Cache

Azure Redis is based on Open Source project called Redis Cache and it gives you all of the capability you accustom from Redis Cache on enterprise grade infrastructure.

RemoteApp

Azure RemoteApp is designed as a service to help you access Windows, iOS, or Android devices remotely. It works in the cloud as well as on premise.

Azure Scheduler

Scheduler helps you invoke actions via HTTP endpoints and place messages into queues. As a scheduler, it helps schedule these posts at given times: regular or irregular schedules.

Azure Search

Search is another Azure service that takes hassle away from implementing web application search with capability you are accustomed to see with full-text search.

Service Bus

Azure Service Bus is a messaging cloud service that allows cloud based applications to exchange messages in real time.

Site Recover

Site Recover is Azure Service that is designed to protect your applications from failures by replicating your clouds and afterwards recovery. It is service that helps you with your disaster recovery needs.

Azure SQL

Azure SQL is a relational database in the cloud. You get all of the capability you accustom from on premise relational databases.

Azure Storage

Storage is non-relational data store designed to house blobs, tables and drive storages.

StorSimple

Azure StorSimple is a hybrid solution designed to provide storage for data disaster recovery types of scenarios.

Stream Analytic

Stream Analytics helps with insights into device, sensor usage.

Traffic Manager

Azure Traffic Manager allows for load balancing of incoming traffic across different data centers.

Virtual Machines

Azure VMs enables you to provision Windows and Lynux Servers in the cloud. Images can be derived from Azure Marketplace or from library of images prepared ahead of time by you.

Azure VNet (Virtual Networks)

Azure VNet allows you to create Virtual Networks within Azure Infrastructure and establish links with on-premises networks.

Visual Studio Online

Azure VSO is online based Application Lifecycle Management tool allowing you to manage work items as well as source control. You need to establish VSO accounts separate and then link with your Azure Subscription.

Websites

Azure Websites is a true PaaS implementation of the Azure Service. It helps remove hassle of managing underlying infrastructure without worrying about scalability and elasticity.