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Compute
premium
Disk attachment
Disk attachment is the association between a managed disk and a virtual machine or compatible scale set instance, allowing the workload to use the disk as OS or data storage.
Managed disks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: VM disk attachment, data disk attachment, attach managed disk, attached disk
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Compute
premium
Disk bursting
Disk bursting is an Azure managed disk capability that lets supported disks temporarily exceed baseline IOPS or throughput targets to handle short workload spikes.
Managed disk performance
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: managed disk bursting, Premium SSD bursting, Standard SSD bursting, on-demand disk bursting
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Compute
premium
Disk encryption set
A disk encryption set is an Azure resource that connects managed disks, snapshots, or images to a customer-managed key used for server-side encryption.
Managed disk encryption
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: DES, managed disk encryption set, disk CMK set, customer-managed key disk encryption set
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Compute
premium field-manual
Managed disk
A managed disk is an Azure-managed block storage resource used as an operating system disk or data disk for a virtual machine. Teams use it when VM storage needs durable disks without manually managing storage accounts or page blobs. In plain English, it gives operators a named control for clear disk ownership, backup evidence, encryption control, and repeatable VM recovery instead of leaving the decision hidden in a portal setting, script, or deployment file. Treat it as production-ready only when the owner, dependencies, permission boundary, monitoring signal, and rollback evidence are clear.
Azure Disk Storage
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: Managed disk, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Disk Storage
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Compute
premium field-manual
Managed disk SKU
A managed disk SKU is the selected disk type and performance tier for a managed disk, such as Standard HDD, Standard SSD, Premium SSD, Premium SSD v2, or Ultra Disk. Teams use it when a VM workload needs the right balance of latency, IOPS, throughput, durability options, and cost. In plain English, it gives operators a named control for right-sized storage performance without paying for unnecessary disk capability instead of leaving the decision hidden in a portal setting, script, or deployment file. Treat it as production-ready only when the owner, dependencies, permission boundary, monitoring signal, and rollback evidence are clear.
Azure Disk Storage
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: Managed disk SKU, Azure Disk Storage
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Storage
premium
Azure Container Storage
A cloud-based volume management, deployment, and orchestration service built natively for containers and integrated with Kubernetes persistent volumes.
Container storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: ACS for containers
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Storage
premium
SFTP for Azure Blob Storage
SFTP for Azure Blob Storage lets clients connect to a storage account through SSH File Transfer Protocol for file access, transfer, and management. It requires a supported storage account with hierarchical namespace enabled, then local users and scoped permissions control access to containers and paths.
Storage platform
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Blob Storage SFTP, SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage, storage account SFTP, Blob SFTP endpoint, SFTP for Azure Blob Storage
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Storage
premium
Azure Storage Actions
Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform for automating data management tasks across Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage objects without provisioning separate compute.
Storage platform
intermediate
4 commands
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Storage
premium
Azure Storage Explorer
Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app for Windows, macOS, and Linux that helps users connect to and manage Azure Storage data and resources through a graphical interface.
Storage tooling
fundamentals
4 commands
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Storage
premium
Azure Storage Mover
Azure Storage Mover is a fully managed migration service that helps move files and folders from on-premises or AWS S3 sources to Azure Storage while minimizing workload downtime.
Storage migration
intermediate
4 commands
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Storage
premium
Azure Storage Discovery
Azure Storage Discovery is a fully managed service that provides enterprise-wide visibility into Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage estates for analysis, optimization, security, and operations.
Storage platform
intermediate
3 commands
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Storage
premium
Azure Elastic SAN
A cloud-native Azure storage area network service that provides scalable, cost-effective, high-performance block storage volumes for compute workloads.
Block storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Elastic SAN
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Storage
premium
Azure file share
An Azure file share is a managed cloud share hosted by Azure Files. It behaves like a network file share, but Microsoft runs the storage service instead of your team maintaining file servers, disks, operating systems, and failover.
Files, queues, and tables
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Files share
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Storage
premium
Azure Managed Lustre
Azure Managed Lustre is a managed parallel file system for high-performance computing and AI workloads that need scalable, low-latency file storage in Azure.
Parallel file systems
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Managed Lustre, Azure Managed Lustre File System, AMLFS
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Containers
premium
Kubernetes StorageClass
A Kubernetes StorageClass defines how persistent storage is dynamically provisioned for persistent volume claims, including the driver, performance tier, reclaim policy, and binding behavior.
Kubernetes storage
Intermediate
5 commands
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Storage
premium
Azure Data Box
An Azure service that transfers large amounts of data to or from Azure by shipping secure, managed storage devices for offline migration.
Data transfer
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Data Box
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Storage
premium
Azure Files NFS share
Azure Files NFS share is a specific Azure file share created for NFS access rather than SMB access. It helps Linux application owners and storage teams give workloads a managed shared POSIX-style file path without operating separate NFS appliances for every project. You see it when research clusters, Linux application farms, container platforms, or data processing systems need one shared path across many clients. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
NFS file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: NFS file share, NFS Azure file share
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Storage
premium
Azure Files premium share
Azure Files premium share is an Azure Files share backed by premium storage for workloads that need predictable capacity, IOPS, and throughput. It helps application and storage architects give latency-sensitive file workloads managed storage with provisioned performance without guessing whether standard file shares can meet peak demand. You see it when profile containers, engineering tools, build systems, analytics staging, or transactional applications require faster shared file access. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
Premium file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Premium Azure file share, SSD Azure file share
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Storage
learning-path-anchor
Table Storage
Table Storage is Azure Storage for simple structured NoSQL records. You create tables, store entities, and identify each entity with a PartitionKey and RowKey. It is useful when the data is large, sparse, inexpensive to keep, and usually accessed by known keys. It is not a relational database, search engine, or analytics warehouse. The best fit is operational data that can be denormalized, read directly, updated independently, and kept cheap without requiring joins, stored procedures, or secondary indexes.
Table Storage
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Table Storage, Storage Tables, Azure Storage Tables, Azure Tables storage
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Storage
learning-path-anchor
Data Lake storage account
A storage feature or access model in Data Lake Storage Gen2 that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
advanced
19 commands
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL logical server
An Azure SQL logical server is a logical administrative construct for Azure SQL Database and related SQL resources. Microsoft Learn describes it as the central point for managing a collection of databases, including logins, firewall rules, auditing, threat detection policies, and failover groups.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
16 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Azure Files
Azure Files provides managed SMB and NFS file shares in Azure for applications, users, containers, and virtual machines that still need file-system access.
Managed file shares
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure file shares, Azure managed file shares, cloud file shares
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Blob Storage
Blob Storage is Azure object storage for massive amounts of unstructured data such as documents, images, video, backups, logs, and application files.
Storage
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Blob Storage, blob-storage, blob, blob-container, blob-access-tier, blob-soft-delete, blob-versioning, storage-account, account-sas, private-endpoint-for-storage, azure-files, data-lake-storage-gen2, queue-storage
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Databases
field-manual-complete
PostgreSQL storage autogrow
PostgreSQL storage autogrow is a safety valve for an Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. When storage consumption gets too high, Azure can increase the server’s allocated storage instead of letting the database hit a disk-full condition. That protects writes, replication, and normal workload activity. It is not a cleanup tool and it does not shrink storage later. If tables, indexes, logs, or WAL files keep growing, autogrow buys time and continuity, but the bill and capacity footprint can keep rising until the workload is fixed.
PostgreSQL flexible server
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Compute
field-manual-complete
Premium SSD disk
A Premium SSD disk is a faster Azure managed disk for virtual machines that need steadier storage performance than standard disks.
Disks and images
intermediate
5 commands
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Compute
complete
Shared disk
A managed disk configured for simultaneous attachment to multiple VMs so supported clustered applications can use shared block storage.
Disks and images
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure shared disk, shared managed disk, shared data disk, managed disk maxShares
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Compute
complete
Standard HDD disk
Microsoft Learn lists Standard HDD as an Azure managed disk type that uses hard disk storage and is available for Azure VMs. It is designed for cost-sensitive, low-IO workloads, with more variable performance than SSD-backed disks, and can often be converted when workload needs change.
Disks and images
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: standard-hdd-disk, Standard HDD disk, Azure Standard HDD, Standard_LRS disk, HDD managed disk, standard hard disk
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Compute
complete
Standard SSD disk
Microsoft Learn lists Standard SSD as an Azure managed disk type that uses solid-state storage for general-purpose VM disks. It sits between Standard HDD and Premium SSD, giving better consistency than HDD for many workloads while keeping cost lower than premium disks for moderate IO requirements.
Disks and images
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: standard-ssd-disk, Standard SSD disk, Azure Standard SSD, StandardSSD_LRS disk, SSD managed disk, standard solid-state disk
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Storage
command-rich
Primary storage region
The primary storage region is the home region for an Azure Storage account. When an application writes blobs, files, queues, or tables under normal conditions, it writes to the primary region. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in Data redundancy - Azure Storage, but this field-manual definition is intentionally wider than an older short glossary entry because the page must teach what to inspect, what can break, who owns the decision, and which evidence proves the Azure environment is behaving as intended. In field use, start with the technical boundary: Technically.
Storage platform
intermediate
4 commands
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Storage
command-rich
Secondary storage region
The secondary storage region is the other region involved when an Azure Storage account uses geo-redundant options such as GRS or GZRS. Under normal conditions, applications write to the primary region, and Azure asynchronously copies data to the secondary region. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in Data redundancy - Azure Storage, but this field-manual definition is intentionally wider than an older short glossary entry because the page must teach what to inspect, what can break, who owns the decision, and which evidence proves the Azure environment is behaving as intended..
Storage platform
intermediate
4 commands
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Storage
premium
Locally redundant storage
Microsoft Learn describes locally redundant storage as Azure Storage redundancy that replicates data within the primary region in a local storage scale unit. LRS is the lowest-cost redundancy option and provides high durability, but it does not protect against regional disasters.
Azure Storage
intermediate
10 commands
Aliases: LRS
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Compute
premium
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is Azure serverless compute for running code from triggers such as HTTP requests, queues, timers, events, and service integrations without managing servers.
Serverless compute
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Functions, Function App, serverless functions
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Databases
premium
Azure Managed Redis
Azure Managed Redis is a Microsoft-managed in-memory data store based on Redis Enterprise, used for low-latency caching, session storage, messaging, and semantic cache scenarios.
Managed cache
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Managed Redis, Redis Enterprise on Azure, Azure Redis Enterprise
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Analytics
premium
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics is Microsoft’s integrated analytics service for enterprise data warehousing, big data, data integration, and exploratory analytics.
Synapse Analytics
intermediate
6 commands
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Storage
premium
Service endpoint for Storage
A service endpoint for Storage enables the Microsoft.Storage endpoint on a virtual network subnet and pairs it with storage account network rules. It lets workloads in that subnet reach Azure Storage over the Microsoft backbone while the account firewall allows only approved virtual network sources.
Storage platform
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Storage VNet rule, Microsoft.Storage service endpoint, Service endpoint for Storage, Storage service endpoint, service endpoint for storage, service-endpoint-for-storage
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search indexer
An Azure AI Search indexer is the automated worker that fills a search index from another data source. Instead of your application pushing every document into Azure AI Search, the indexer pulls from places such as Blob Storage, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or Data Lake Storage. It can map fields, detect changes, crack documents, and run enrichment skills before writing searchable documents. It is useful when source data changes regularly.
AI platform and search
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search indexer, search indexer, indexer, azure-ai-search-indexer
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Containers
premium
Azure Container Registry
A managed private registry service for building, storing, and managing container images and OCI artifacts for container deployments.
Container images
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ACR
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Analytics
premium
Azure Data Explorer
A fully managed, high-performance analytics service for near-real-time analysis of large telemetry, log, event, and time-series datasets.
Real-time analytics
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADX, Kusto
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Databases
premium
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
A fully managed Azure database service for MySQL workloads with configurable compute, storage, backups, networking, maintenance, and high availability options.
Managed MySQL
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: MySQL Flexible Server
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Databases
premium
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
A fully managed Azure PostgreSQL service with configurable compute, storage, backups, networking, maintenance, extensions, and high availability options.
Managed PostgreSQL
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: PostgreSQL Flexible Server
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Analytics
premium
Azure Databricks
A unified, open analytics platform on Azure for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale.
Data engineering and AI
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Databricks on Azure
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Analytics
premium
Azure Databricks Unity Catalog
A unified governance layer in Azure Databricks for data and AI assets, including catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, models, privileges, and lineage.
Data governance
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog
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Storage
premium
Azure HPC Cache
Azure HPC Cache was a managed Azure file-caching service for HPC workloads; Microsoft retired the service on September 30, 2025, so current work should focus on migration or historical inventory.
Retired HPC caching
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: HPC Cache, Azure Storage Cache
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Storage
premium
Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files provides managed enterprise SMB and NFS volumes in Azure for performance-sensitive file workloads.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
5 commands
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Storage
premium
Azure Site Recovery vault
An Azure Site Recovery vault is a Recovery Services vault used to manage replication, failover, and recovery metadata for Site Recovery.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ASR vault, Azure Site Recovery vault, Recovery Services vault, Site Recovery Recovery Services vault
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL auditing
Azure SQL auditing tracks database events and writes audit logs to supported destinations such as storage, Log Analytics, or Event Hubs.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL audit logs, Azure SQL auditing, SQL auditing, database auditing
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL Business Critical tier
Azure SQL Business Critical tier is a vCore service tier for OLTP workloads that need high transaction rates, low-latency I/O, and high resilience through isolated replicas.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL Business Critical tier, Business Critical tier, BusinessCritical, Premium-like vCore tier, SQL Business Critical
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational database service in Azure that provides SQL Server-compatible engines as single databases, elastic pools, and serverless or provisioned compute choices. Microsoft Learn presents it as platform as a service with built-in availability, backups, patching, scaling, and security integration.
Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL pooled database, Azure SQL single database, SQL Database
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL Database DTU model
Azure SQL Database DTU model is a purchasing model that bundles compute, storage, and I/O resources into Database Transaction Units for Basic, Standard, and Premium tiers.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL Database DTU model, DTU model, DTU-based purchasing model, Database Transaction Unit, eDTU
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL elastic pool
Azure SQL elastic pool lets multiple Azure SQL databases on one logical server share a set of resources at a set price for variable usage patterns.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL elastic pool, SQL elastic pool, eDTU pool, elastic pool, pooled databases
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