Discovering Microsoft Azure - What is Azure ?

Azure 

As we talked about cloud computing in general . Now lets get into azure itself , this map below shows all the massive number of services that azure comprises at this time. 

 Generally speaking  most of the services offered with in azure can be put into three categories : Compute ,Networking , Storage . And the one thing we need to look at is Security and Management which is not a separate category but that's some thing that accompanies everything that you are doing . 

Azure Compute Services 

• Azure Virtual Machine  : Windows or Linux VMs
• Azure Kubernetes Service : Manage clusters of VMs that run containerised services  
• Azure Functions : Event-driven , server-less computing 

Azure Networking Services

• Azure Virtual Network :  Connects VMs to VPN connections 
• Azure Load Balancer : Balance inbound and outbound connections
• Azure Traffic Manager : Distributes network traffic across Azure regions 

Azure Storage Services 

• Azure Blob Storage : Storage objects like video files , JSON ,Images , IoT Data 
• Azure File Storage : Acts as a file server to share and access files.
• Azure Table Storage : No SQL storage for under structured data

Azure Active Directory 

Azure AD is a multi tenant , cloud based directory and identity management service . 

It has the centralised directory store . It is the same system used by office 365 and azure . It basically contains all the identities for all the resources in your origination and giving them the right access based on their roles .