Azure provides an ever-increasing set of PaaS and IaaS across a spectrum of technology areas. For our purpose, we will look at the subset of areas and services that are directly applicable and used by our application.
For ease of use, I have created this service categorization model across technology areas that are most relevant to typical business applications:
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This is just an indicative list and by no means an exhaustive list. Refer to the Azure portal for a complete list.
In the preceding categorization models, we have divided the services into the following areas:
- Infrastructure: This is an all-encompassing list of services ...