Internet of Things (IoT) Offerings from Azure
IoT is a network of connected devices that can function with no real human intervention.
IoT Hub | Messaging hub collects data from IoT devices |
IoT Central | Fully-managed global IoT software as a service (SaaS) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage your IoT assets at scale |
IoT Edge | Push your data analysis onto your IoT devices instead of in the cloud allowing them to react more quickly to state changes. |
Azure Sphere | A specific hardware device made by Microsoft and a native way of managing IOT devices |
Big Data and Analytics Offerings from Azure
BigData involves the process of extracting huge amounts of data collected by organizations to generate some business value out of it.
SQL Data Warehouse or Synapse Analytics | Run analytics at a massive scale using a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) offering that leverages massive parallel processing (MPP) to run complex queries quickly across petabytes of data |
Data Bricks | Based on Apache Spark – a distributed cluster computing framework |
HDInsight | Process massive amounts of data with managed clusters of Hadoop clusters in the cloud, Spark and Kafka |
Data Lake Analytics | Scalable analytics service that allows you to write queries to transform your massive data and extract valuable insights. |
Artificial Intelligence ( Machine learning ) Offerings from Azure
AI is the ability of a machine to imitate human behaviour
Azure Machine Learning Service | The cloud-based environment you can use to develop, train, test, deploy, manage, and track machine learning models. It can auto-generate a model and auto-tune it for you. It will let you start training on your local machine, and then scale out to the cloud |
Azure Machine Learning Studio | Collaborative, a drag-and-drop visual workspace where you can build, test and deploy machine learning solutions using pre-built machine learning algorithms and data-handling modules |
Azure Bot Service | Allow us to create BOTs for adding some value to customers |
Azure Cognitive Service |
Serverless Computing Offerings from Azure
Azure Functions (AWS Lambda) | An event-driven, serverless compute service |
Logic Apps | help you to schedule workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, inside or outside of our organization. |
Event Grid | This is similar to AWS Simple Notification Service. It passes events between applications that needs to know about events. |
Azure DevOps Offerings from Azure
Azure Boards | Used to keep track of projects – It’s just a planning app like MS Project on Azure, |
Azure Pipelines | Same as Jenkins – It tests our software automatically and continuously |
Azure Repos | Same as GitHub but Azure Repos run inside Azure |
Azure Test Plans | For testing applications & Quality assurance |
Azure Artifacts | Same as GitHub – Artifacts lets us share application and code outside our organization domain. |
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