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Subject: What is Azure and How Does It Work?
Content: Azure provides more than 200 services, are divided into 18 categories. These categories include computing, networking, storage, IoT, migration, mobile, analytics, containers, artificial intelligence, and other machine learning, integration, management tools, developer tools, security, databases, DevOps, media identity, and web services. Let’s take a look at some of the major Azure services by category: Compute Services   Virtual Machine This service enables you to create a virtual machine in Windows, Linux or any other configuration in seconds. Cloud Service This service lets you create scalable applications within the cloud. Once the application is deployed, everything, including provisioning, load balancing, and health monitoring, is taken care of by Azure.  Service Fabric With service fabric, the process of developing a microservice is immensely simplified. Microservice is an application that contains other bundled smaller applications. Functions With functions, you can create applications in any programming language. The best part about this service is that you need not worry about hardware requirements while developing applications because Azure takes care of that. All you need to do is provide the code. Networking Azure CDN Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) is for delivering content to users. It uses a high bandwidth, and content can be transferred to any person around the globe. The CDN service uses a network of servers placed strategically around the globe so that the users can access the data as soon as possible. Express Route   This service lets you connect your on-premise network to the Microsoft cloud or any other services that you want, through a private connection. So, the only communications that will happen here will be between the enterprise network and the service that you want.  Virtual network The virtual network allows you to have any of the Azure services communicate with one another privately and securely.  Azure DNS This service allows you to host your DNS domains or system domains on Azure. Storage Disk Storage   This service allows you to choose from either HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or SSD (Solid State Drive) as your storage option along with your virtual machine. Blob Storage   This service is optimized to store a massive amount of unstructured data, including text and even binary data.  File Storage This is a managed file storage service that can be accessed via industry SMB (server message block) protocol.  Queue Storage   With queue storage, you can provide stable message queuing for a large workload. This service can be accessed from anywhere in this world. See also: Azure Virtual Desktop | Azure Managed Services  | Azure Data Migration