This article introduces some of the key Azure services that are used most frequently as a developer. For a comprehensive list of all Azure services, see the Azure documentation hub page.
Host .NET, Java, Node.js, and Python web applications and APIs in a fully managed Azure service. You only need to deploy your code to Azure. Azure takes care of all the infrastructure management like high availability, load balancing, and autoscaling.
Host static web apps built using frameworks like Gatsby, Hugo, or VuePress, or modern web apps built using Angular, React, Svelte, or Vue. Static web apps automatically build and deploy based off of code changes and feature API integration with Azure Functions.
A serverless compute platform for creating small, discrete segments of code that can be triggered from a variety of different events. Common applications include building serverless APIs or orchestrating event-drive architectures.
Run Docker containers on-demand in a managed, serverless Azure environment. Azure Container Instances is a solution for any scenario that can operate in isolated containers, without orchestration.
Quickly deploy a production ready Kubernetes cluster to the cloud and offload the operational overhead to Azure. Azure handles critical tasks, like health monitoring and maintenance. You only need to manage and maintain the agent nodes.
Host Spring Boot microservice applications in Azure, no code changes required. Azure Spring Apps provides monitoring, configuration management, service discovery, CI/CD integration and more.
Host your app using virtual machines in Azure when you need more control over your computing environment. Azure VMs offer a flexible, scalable computing environment for both Linux and Windows virtual machines.
Azure AI services
Azure AI services help you create AI apps with pre-built and customizable APIs and models. Example applications include natural language processing for conversations, search, monitoring, translation, speech, vision, and decision-making.
Use powerful language models including the GPT-3, Codex and Embeddings model series for content generation, summarization, semantic search, and natural language to code translation.
A secure data cache and messaging broker that provides high throughput and low-latency access to data for applications.
Storage
Azure Storage products offer secure and scalable cloud and hybrid data storage services. Offerings include services for hybrid storage solutions, and services to transfer, share, and back up data.
Azure Blob Storage allows your applications to store and retrieve files in the cloud. Azure Storage is highly scalable to store massive amounts of data and data is stored redundantly to ensure high availability.
Azure Data Lake Storage is designed to support big data analytics by providing scalable, cost-effective storage for structured, semi-structured or unstructured data.
Messaging
These are some of the most popular services that manage sending, receiving, and routing of messages from and to apps.
A fully managed enterprise message broker supporting both point to point and publish-subscribe integrations. It's ideal for building decoupled applications, queue-based load leveling, or facilitating communication between microservices.
Store and access application secrets like connection strings and API keys in an encrypted vault with restricted access to make sure your secrets and your application aren't compromised.
This feature of Azure Monitor provides Application Performance Management (APM) for enhancing the performance, reliability, and quality of your live web applications.
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