When NET developers get acquainted with Azure their primary question is: What Azure services are the most useful?
Here I described the Azure services I use for UKAD projects.
App Service
The App Service is used for a web application hosting. outwith .NET, it supports NodeJS, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby. The service contains tools for easy deployments, scaling, diagnostic and monitoring.
Azure Active Directory (AD)
Azure AD helps to authenticate a user, controls access to applications and resources, supports single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authorization.
Cosmos DB
Cosmos DB is NoSQL database with global distribution and horizontal scale possibilities. But it supports such APIs as MongoDB, Cassandra, Gremlin and SQL out of the box.
Azure Storage Block Blobs
This service is scalable storage for unstructured data. Storage Block Blobs
supports out of box replications for different regions.
Azure SQL Database
Microsoft SQL engine in cloud-based. SQL Database supports intelligent database management.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
ALS is handy to simplify Kubernetes management, deployment and operations.
Logic Apps
Low Сode approach used in Logic Apps helps automate business processes.
KeyVault
Use this cryptographic storage for secure storing your passwords for resources.
Content Delivery Network
Reduce load time for media like images, .js and .css files from different countries and continents.
Virtual Machine
Create Windows or Linux Virtual machine. It is one of the oldest Azure services but it is still quite handy.
Azure functions
A serverless platform which supports a variety of languages.
Application Insight
Analytic and monitoring tool for applications.
