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- Functions Process events with serverless code
- Batch Run large-scale parallel and batch compute jobs
- Service Fabric Build and operate always-on, scalable, distributed applications
- Cloud Services Create highly available, infinitely scalable cloud applications and APIs
Get credits that enable:
4 Windows or Linux Virtual Machines
24 x 7 for a month
And much more...
Learn more - Networking
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- Virtual Network Provision private networks, optionally connect to on-premises datacenters
- Load Balancer Deliver high availability and network performance to your applications
- Application Gateway Layer 7 Load Balancer with built-in HTTP load balancing and delivery control
- VPN Gateway Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity
- Azure DNS Host your DNS domain in Azure
- CDN Deliver content to end-users through a robust network of global data centers
- Traffic Manager Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability
- ExpressRoute Dedicated private network fiber connections to Azure
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- Azure Storage Durable, highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage
- Data Lake Store Hyperscale repository for big data analytics workloads
- StorSimple Hybrid cloud storage for enterprises, reduces costs and improves data security
- Backup Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud
- Site Recovery Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds
Get credits that enable:
8 standard SQL Databases
Hadoop instance for a week
And much more...
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- App Service Create web and mobile apps for any platform and any device
- Web Apps Quickly create and deploy mission critical Web apps at scale
- Mobile Apps Build and host the backend for any mobile app
- Logic Apps Automate the access and use of data across clouds without writing code
- API Apps Easily build and consume Cloud APIs
- CDN Deliver content to end-users through a robust network of global data centers
- Media Services Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale
- Search Fully-managed search-as-a-service
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- SQL Database Managed relational SQL Database-as-a-service
- SQL Data Warehouse Elastic data warehouse-as-a-service with enterprise-class features
- SQL Server Stretch Database Dynamically stretch on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure
- DocumentDB Managed NoSQL document database-as-a-service
- Redis Cache High throughput, low latency data access to build fast and scalable applications
- Data Factory Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement
Get credits that enable:
8 standard SQL Databases
Hadoop instance for a week
And much more...
Learn more - Intelligence + Analytics
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- HDInsight Provision cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters
- Machine Learning Powerful cloud-based predictive analytics
- Stream Analytics Real-time stream processing
- Cognitive Services Add smart API capabilities to enable contextual interactions
- Data Lake Analytics Distributed analytics service that makes big data easy
- Data Lake Store Hyperscale repository for big data analytics workloads
- Data Factory Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement
- Power BI Embedded Embed fully interactive, stunning data visualizations in your applications
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- Azure IoT Hub Connect, monitor, and control millions of IoT assets
- Event Hubs Receive telemetry from millions of devices
- Stream Analytics Real-time data stream processing from millions of IoT devices
- Machine Learning Powerful cloud based predictive analytics tool to enable predictive maintenance
- Notification Hubs A scalable, push notification engine for quickly sending millions of messages
- Enterprise Integration
- Enterprise Integration
- Logic Apps Automate the access and use of data across clouds without writing code
- BizTalk Services Seamlessly integrate the enterprise and the cloud
- Service Bus Connect across private and public cloud environments
- API Management Publish APIs to developers, partners and employees securely and at scale
- StorSimple Hybrid cloud storage for enterprises, reduces costs and improves data security
- SQL Server Stretch Database Dynamically stretch on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure
- Data Factory Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement
- Security + Identity
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- Security Center Prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility
- Key Vault Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets
- Azure Active Directory Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
- Azure Active Directory B2C Consumer identity and access management in the cloud
- Azure Active Directory Domain Services Join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers
- Multi-Factor Authentication Safeguard access to your data and apps with an extra level of authentication
- Security Information Learn how Azure provides you a secure infrastructure to build your cloud solutions
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Store 500,000 objects in Active Directory
Multi-factor auth with 100 users
And much more...
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- Visual Studio Team Services Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software
- Azure DevTest Labs Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts
- Visual Studio Application Insights Detect, triage, and diagnose issues in your web apps and services
- API Management Publish APIs to developers, partners and employees securely and at scale
- HockeyApp Deploy mobile apps, collect feedback and crash reports, and monitor usage
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- Visual Studio Application Insights Detect, triage, and diagnose issues in your web apps and services
- Log Analytics Collect, search and visualize machine data from on-premises and cloud
- Automation Simplify cloud management with process automation
- Backup Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud
- Site Recovery Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds
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Learn how to use SQL Database, a relational database-as-a-service in the cloud. See database tutorials, videos, and more.
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SQL Database videos
04-23-2015 01 min, 36 sec Azure SQL Database - create DBs in seconds
04-23-2015 01 min, 02 sec Azure SQL Database - protecting important DBs from regional disasters is easy
04-23-2015 01 min, 24 sec Azure SQL Database dynamically scale-up or scale-down
Recent SQL Database Updates
Improved automatic tuning boosts Azure SQL Database performance
September 29, 2016 - Now customers can run their production workload in SQL Database for a day, and Advisor will provide relevant tuning recommendations to improve performance.
Major update to SQL Database Advisor makes database performance tuning much faster
September 6, 2016 - SQL Database Advisor is now significantly faster when tuning your database performance, requiring only a day of activity before producing the tuning recommendations.
General availability: New Azure SQL Database Premium performance level, P15
August 24, 2016 - P15 offers 4000 Database Transaction Units (DTUs)—that’s twice as powerful as our P11 offering—with extremely fast transactional performance, real-time analytics, and up to 1 TB of storage.