Microsoft Azure edit 
A cloud computing service operated by Microsoft, with support for infrastructure, storage, databases and analytics services, available in 34 geographical regions. Announced in Otober 2008, with first services available in February 2010. Previously known as Windows Azure. Vendor Information
Other Names Azure Infrastructure Services
Azure Virtual Machines Virtual servers with support for a range of operating systems and pre-build images, and for management at scale (Virtual Machine Scale Sets) - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/ Azure Kubernetes Service Kubernetes container service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kubernetes-service/ Azure Disk Storage Persistent disk storage to support virtual machines - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/unmanaged-disks/ Storage Services
Azure Files Network storage, mountable on multiple machines over REST and SMB - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/files/ Azure Blob Storage Highly scalable and resilient object storage Azure Data Lake Store Massively scalable HDFS compatible filesystem as a service, based on Microsoft’s Cosmos technology Compute Services
Azure Functions Service for executing arbitrary code in response to a trigger or timer - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/ Azure Batch Service for executing batch jobs across a pool of compute servers - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/batch/ Database Services
Azure HDInsight Hadoop service based on HDP Azure SQL Database Scalable relational database - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/ Azure SQL Database Edge Relational database optimised for running at the edge - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database-edge/ Azure Analysis Services SQL Server Analysis Services as a service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/analysis-services/ Azure Database for MySQL MySQL as a service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/mysql/ Azure Database for PostgreSQL PostgreSQL as a service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/postgresql/ Azure Database for MariaDB MariaDB as a service, currently in preview - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/mariadb-postgresql-and-mysql-more-choices-on-microsoft-azure/ Azure SQL Data Warehouse Scalable analytical database - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse/ Azure Redis Cache Redis as a service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cache/ Azure Table Storage A NoSQL wide column store service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables/ Azure Cosmos DB Massively scalable, low latency multi-model (key-value, graph, wide column and document) NoSQL database, previously known as Azure DocumentDB - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cosmos-db/ Azure Search Search service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search/ Analytics Services
Azure Data Explorer Ad-hoc analytics service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-explorer/ Azure Data Lake Analytics Massively parallel analytics job service, with support for U-SQL, R, Python, and .NET - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-lake-analytics/ Azure Data Catalog A metadata catalog service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-catalog/ Azure Time Series Insights Storage, analytics and visualisation service for time series data - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/time-series-insights/ Azure Log Analytics Storage, analytics and analytics service for log data - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/log-analytics/ Azure Databricks Spark as a service jointly developed with Databricks, currently in preview - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/databricks/ Streaming Data Services
Azure Event Hubs Elastic service for the buffering and publishing of streaming event data with a Kafka compatible end point - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/event-hubs/ Azure Stream Analytics Service for querying streams of data using a SQL like language - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/stream-analytics/ Data Integration Services
Azure Data Factory Data ingestion as a service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-factory/ Azure Scheduler Scheduling as a service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/scheduler/ Machine Learning Services
Azure Machine Learning Machine learning service - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/ Azure Cognitive Services Suite of services including vision, speech and text analysis - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/ Links
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