Azure · Products
The services I believe matter most to understand.
A curated product catalogue for architecture and development, with concise explanations and links to official Microsoft documentation.
Last reviewed · 13 July 2026
Identity and access
The control plane for users, applications, workloads and privileged access.
Microsoft Entra ID
Identity for users, groups, applications, devices and access policies.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure RBAC
Role-based authorization for Azure resources with inheritance through the scope hierarchy.
Microsoft Learn ↗Managed identities
Identities for Azure resources that remove application secrets from code and configuration.
Microsoft Learn ↗Conditional Access
The policy engine for signal-based access, MFA, device requirements and session controls.
Microsoft Learn ↗Privileged Identity Management
Time-bound, approval-controlled privileged access to Entra roles and Azure resources.
Microsoft Learn ↗Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Access packages, access reviews and lifecycle governance for internal and external access.
Microsoft Learn ↗Applications and compute
Runtimes from serverless and PaaS to containers and full Kubernetes.
Azure App Service
Managed web and API hosting with deployment slots, autoscale and integrated identity.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Functions
Event-driven serverless compute with triggers and bindings.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Container Apps
Serverless containers with revisions, KEDA scaling and managed infrastructure.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Kubernetes Service
Managed Kubernetes for solutions that need the Kubernetes API and orchestration control.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Container Registry
Private registry for container images and OCI artifacts, including builds with ACR Tasks.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Virtual Machines
IaaS compute when the operating system, software or network setup requires full control.
Microsoft Learn ↗APIs, messaging and events
Services that connect systems without coupling them unnecessarily.
Azure API Management
Gateway, policies, developer portal and lifecycle management for APIs.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Service Bus
Reliable messaging with queues, topics, subscriptions, sessions and dead-letter queues.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Event Grid
Distribution of discrete events to subscribers with filtering and retry.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Event Hubs
High-volume event streaming and telemetry with partitioned streams.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Logic Apps
Declarative integration workflows with a large connector library.
Microsoft Learn ↗Data and storage
Structured and unstructured data, transactions, global distribution and analytics.
Azure Storage
Blob, Files, Queue and Table Storage with several redundancy and access models.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Cosmos DB
Globally distributed database with multiple APIs, consistency levels and vector search.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure SQL Database
Relational PaaS database with built-in high availability and multiple compute models.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Managed PostgreSQL with Flexible Server, high availability and pgvector support.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Managed Redis
Managed in-memory data platform for caching, streams and vector search.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Data Factory
Orchestration and movement of data between cloud and on-premises sources.
Microsoft Learn ↗Networking and security
Private connectivity, traffic management, protection and hybrid networks.
Azure Virtual Network
The basic private network for Azure resources, subnets, routing and peering.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Private Link
Private access to PaaS services through private endpoints in a virtual network.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Front Door
Global HTTP(S) entry point with acceleration, load balancing, failover and WAF.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Application Gateway
Regional layer-7 load balancing, TLS termination and web application firewall.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure ExpressRoute
Private dedicated connectivity between on-premises networks and Microsoft's cloud.
Microsoft Learn ↗Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Security posture, recommendations and workload protection for Azure and hybrid environments.
Microsoft Learn ↗Operations, observability and governance
Standardization, deployment, monitoring, cost and control at scale.
Azure Monitor
A common platform for metrics, logs, alerts and observability across Azure.
Microsoft Learn ↗Application Insights
Application performance monitoring, distributed traces and OpenTelemetry integration.
Microsoft Learn ↗Log Analytics
Analysis of workspace log data with Kusto Query Language.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Policy
Evaluation and enforcement of standards across resources and scopes.
Microsoft Learn ↗Bicep
Declarative infrastructure as code for consistent Azure deployments.
Microsoft Learn ↗Azure Backup and Site Recovery
Data protection, recovery and workload replication for disaster recovery.
Microsoft Learn ↗Well-Architected Framework
Principles for reliability, security, cost, operations and performance.
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