Microsoft Azure

Compute
• Azure VMs IaaS virtual machines, Windows and Linux
• Azure App Service PaaS web hosting, supports Node.js, .NET, Python, Java
• Azure Container Apps serverless containers with Dapr and KEDA
• AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) managed Kubernetes
• Azure Functions serverless, event-driven functions

Storage & Database
• Azure Blob Storage S3 equivalent, hot/cool/archive tiers
• Azure SQL Database managed SQL Server, 99.99% SLA
• Azure Cosmos DB multi-model globally distributed NoSQL
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL managed PostgreSQL
• Azure Cache for Redis managed Redis

Identity & Security
• Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) identity platform, SSO, MFA
• Key Vault secrets, keys, and certificates management
• Defender for Cloud security posture management
• Sentinel SIEM and SOAR

Networking
• Azure Virtual Network (VNet) isolated network
• Azure Front Door global CDN + load balancer + WAF
• API Management API gateway with developer portal

# Azure CLI
az login
az account set --subscription "My Subscription"

# Create resource group az group create --name my-app-rg --location eastus

# Deploy App Service az appservice plan create --name my-plan --resource-group my-app-rg --sku B1 az webapp create --name my-webapp --resource-group my-app-rg \ --plan my-plan --runtime "NODE:20-lts"

# Deploy container az container create --resource-group my-rg \ --name my-container \ --image mcr.microsoft.com/azuredocs/aci-helloworld \ --dns-name-label my-app --ports 80 ```

// Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template
{
  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
  "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
  "resources": [{
    "type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts",
    "apiVersion": "2021-09-01",
    "name": "[parameters('storageAccountName')]",
    "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
    "sku": { "name": "Standard_LRS" },
    "kind": "StorageV2"
  }]
}