Microsoft Azure

Azure DevOps comprises a range of services, to cover the full life-cycle of development, allowing for faster development than traditional practices, utilising services such as:

• Azure Boards
• Azure Repos
• Azure Pipelines
• Test Plans
• Collaboration Services
• Service Hooks

Azure Logic Apps is a cloud platform where you can create and run automated workflows with little to no code, for example:

• Schedule & Send email notifications based on events
• Route and process customer orders
• Move uploaded files
• Monitor tweets, analyse and create alerts for review

Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob Storage is designed for:

• Serving images or docs directly to browser
• Storing files for distributed access
• Streaming audio or video
• Writing to log files
• Storing data for backup & restore, disaster recovery, analysis etc.

Azure Active Directory is a cloud-based Identity and Access Management Service providing:

• Single Sign-On(SSO)
• Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
• Conditional access to users.

This service helps users access resources. Azure Active Directory provides an ID as-a-service solution for traversing their infrastructure, whether on-prem or in the cloud.

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) are an on-demand, scalable computing resource, no different in functionality/capabilities to any physical computer, however it doesn’t physically exist – it exists in the cloud. Azure VMs can be used in various ways, for example:

• Development and Testing
• Cloud Application demand control
• Extended Datacentres
• Data backup
• Running software on operating systems they weren’t intended for

Azure API Management is a management platform (platform-as-a-service) API Management solution that supports the complete API lifecycle, for meeting challenges like:

• Abstract back-end architecture diversity, and complexity.
• Securely expose services hosted on and outside of Azure APIs
• Protect, Accelerate and Observe APIs
• Enable API discovery and consumption by users.

The Azure Backup service provides simple, secure solution to data backup & recovery and monitoring.

• Offload on-prem backup
• Back up Azure IaaS VMs
• Scale easily
• Unlimited Data Transfer
• Keeping Data secure

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users, offering a global solution for rapid delivery of high-bandwidth content, with benefits such as:

• Better performance and improved User experience
• Large scaling to better handle instantaneous high loads (product launch events for example)
• Distribution of user requests and edge server content delivery taking strain off the origin server.

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL & Relational database. Single-digit millisecond response times, and instant scalability with a speed guarantee, with business continuity SLA-backed.

• Real-time access with fast latencies globally, throughput & consistency SLA backed to boot.
• Multi-region writes & distribution to any azure region at the click of a button.
• Independently & elastically scalable storage & throughput across azure regions for unlimited scale worldwide – even during unpredictable traffic bursts!

Azure Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service, offering cost effective and dependable replication, failover and recovery processes contributing to your BCDR strategy through:

• Site Recovery Service, helping ensure business continuity by keeping things running during outages, replicating workloads to a secondary location, until the primary site is fixed.
• Backup service – utilising azure backup to keep your data safe and secure.