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Integration
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Logic Apps managed identity
A Logic Apps managed identity is the Microsoft Entra identity assigned to a Logic Apps workflow or Standard logic app resource so the workflow can authenticate to supported Azure resources without storing passwords, shared keys, or long-lived secrets in governed production environments.
Azure Logic Apps
intermediate
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Logic Apps Standard
Logic Apps Standard is the Azure Logic Apps hosting option where one logic app resource can contain one or more workflows running in a single-tenant runtime, with app-level settings, storage dependency, deployment operations, and scaling controls in governed production environments.
Azure Logic Apps
intermediate
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Logic Apps Consumption
Logic Apps Consumption is the Azure Logic Apps hosting option where each logic app resource contains one workflow that runs in the multitenant Azure Logic Apps service and is typically billed by trigger executions, actions, and connector usage in governed production environments.
Azure Logic Apps
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Logic Apps Consumption
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Logic App
A Logic App is an Azure Logic Apps resource or workflow that automates business and integration processes by connecting a trigger, actions, connectors, data operations, conditions, and monitoring so systems can exchange information without custom glue code everywhere in governed production environments.
Azure Logic Apps
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Logic Apps
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Integration
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Integration account
Integration account controls where Logic Apps stores reusable B2B artifacts that workflows use to translate, validate, sign, decode, encode, or route enterprise messages. Teams see it in logic apps workflows, integration account artifacts. It is not a Logic App workflow, an Azure Storage account, an API connection, an Integration Service Environment, or a general-purpose document repository; confusing them can create failed EDI exchanges, expired certificates. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Enterprise integration
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Logic Apps integration account, enterprise integration account, B2B artifact account, EDI artifact store
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Integration
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Integration service environment
Integration service environment controls how older Logic Apps workloads used a dedicated isolated runtime and VNet connectivity, and how teams identify remaining dependencies during migration. Teams see it in legacy logic apps ise resources, vnet integration. It is not Logic Apps Standard, App Service Environment, integration account, private endpoint, or a normal Consumption Logic App workflow; confusing them can create unsupported legacy integrations, missed retirement planning. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Logic Apps
Advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Logic Apps ISE, ISE, Integration Service Environment, dedicated Logic Apps environment
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Integration
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Built-in connector
A built-in connector is an Azure Logic Apps connector that runs natively with the Logic Apps runtime instead of through a separately hosted managed connector service.
Logic Apps
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Connector
a prebuilt integration component that lets workflows talk to another service, application, data source, or system through triggers and actions
Workflows
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Workflow
In Azure Logic Apps, a workflow is the trigger-and-action definition that automates a business or integration process. A workflow starts from a trigger, runs actions according to conditions and control flow, connects cloud, on-premises, and partner systems, and records run history for operations.
Logic Apps
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Logic Apps workflow, logic app workflow, workflow definition, integration workflow
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Workflow action
In Azure Logic Apps, a workflow action is a step that runs after a trigger or another action. Actions can call connectors, transform data, branch, loop, wait, compose values, or invoke services as part of the workflow definition during each run.
Logic Apps
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Logic Apps action, workflow step, Logic Apps connector action, action definition
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Workflow run
A workflow run is one execution instance of an Azure Logic Apps workflow after a trigger fires. The run records status, start and end time, duration, correlation details, trigger result, action history, retries, inputs, outputs, and errors used for troubleshooting.
Logic Apps
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Workflow trigger
A workflow trigger is the first step in an Azure Logic Apps workflow. The trigger starts a run when a schedule, event, request, polling condition, or connector condition is met, and it passes initial data into the workflow and downstream actions.
Logic Apps
intermediate
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Integration
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Request trigger
In Azure Logic Apps, the Request built-in trigger starts a workflow when an HTTPS request reaches its generated endpoint. It can validate an optional JSON schema, expose a callback URL, and pair with a Response action when the workflow needs to behave like an API. securely.
Logic Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Logic Apps Request trigger, When an HTTP request is received, HTTP request trigger, request-based trigger, callable workflow endpoint
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Recurrence trigger
A Logic Apps trigger that starts a workflow on a schedule.
Logic Apps
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Managed connector
A managed connector is a Microsoft-managed connector that provides workflow triggers and actions for SaaS applications, Azure services, and supported systems. Teams use it when a workflow must integrate with another service without custom hosting code. In plain English, it gives operators a named control for reliable integration, authentication reuse, and clearer workflow ownership 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.
Logic Apps connectors
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: Managed connector, Azure Logic Apps, Logic Apps connectors
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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
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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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Analytics
premium
Azure integration runtime
Azure integration runtime is the compute infrastructure used by Azure Data Factory and Synapse pipelines to move data, dispatch activities, and connect across network environments.
Data integration compute
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Integration Runtime, IR, ADF integration runtime
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DevOps
premium
Environment in Azure DevOps
An Azure DevOps environment is a logical collection of resources that a pipeline can target for deployments, approvals, checks, and deployment history.
Azure Pipelines
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: environment in azure devops
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Web
complete
Static Web Apps managed functions
Built-in Azure Functions APIs deployed and managed with an Azure Static Web Apps site.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-managed-functions, Static Web Apps managed functions, SWA managed functions, managed Functions API, Static Web Apps built-in API, Static Web Apps /api functions
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure OpenAI
Azure OpenAI provides OpenAI model capabilities through Azure resources, deployments, identity, networking, quota, and monitoring controls.
Azure OpenAI
intermediate
8 commands
Aliases: Azure OpenAI Service
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Developer Tools
premium
Azure Developer CLI
An open-source developer command-line tool that accelerates provisioning, deployment, pipeline setup, and monitoring for application resources on Azure.
Developer workflow
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: azd
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Containers
premium
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service is Azure’s managed Kubernetes service for deploying, scaling, and operating containerized applications while Azure manages much of the cluster control plane.
Managed Kubernetes
advanced
6 commands
Aliases: AKS, managed Kubernetes
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Databases
premium
Cosmos DB logical partition
Cosmos DB logical partition means the group of items in a container that share the same partition key value. It is the practical label operators use when they decide how application data should be modeled, queried, protected, and monitored in Azure Cosmos DB. In plain English, it explains where developers, platform engineers, and support teams meet: the application wants fast data access, while the platform controls scale, cost, security, and recovery. A good glossary entry helps the team know which setting to inspect, which owner to involve, and which symptoms prove the design works.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Cosmos DB logical partition, cosmos db logical partition
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Foundry
Create a governed project boundary where AI teams can build agents, evaluations, files, and model deployments without unmanaged sprawl.; Compare, evaluate, and approve model deployments before a generative AI feature is
AI platform
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: AI Foundry, Microsoft Foundry, Foundry resource, Foundry project, Azure AI Foundry, azure ai foundry
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Containers
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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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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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Migration
premium
Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate helps organizations discover, assess, plan, and migrate servers, databases, web apps, virtual desktops, and other workloads to Azure with reduced risk.
Migration planning
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Migrate, Azure Migrate hub, migration assessment
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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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Databases
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Azure SQL failover group
Provide a stable listener endpoint for applications that must survive an Azure SQL regional failover.; Coordinate failover for several related user databases instead of managing each geo-replica separately.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL failover group, SQL failover group, auto-failover group, failover group, geo-failover group
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Databases
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Azure SQL geo-restore
Azure SQL geo-restore uses geo-replicated backups to restore a database to any logical server in any Azure region when primary-region access is unavailable.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL geo-restore, SQL geo restore, geo-replicated backup restore, geo-restore, regional backup restore
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Containers
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Container Apps
A serverless Azure service for running containerized apps and jobs without directly operating Kubernetes clusters.
Serverless containers
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Container Apps
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Containers
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Container Apps custom domain
A custom hostname assigned to a Container App ingress endpoint.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
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Container Apps environment variable
An environment variable passed into a Container Apps container.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Container Apps ingress
The Container Apps setting that controls whether and how HTTP or TCP traffic reaches a container app.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
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Containers
premium
Container Apps replica
a running instance of a Container Apps revision that is added or removed as Azure Container Apps scales the workload
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
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Container Apps session
an isolated, short-lived execution environment from a Container Apps dynamic session pool, often used for sandboxed code or custom runtime tasks
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Container Apps traffic split
percentage-based Container Apps ingress routing that sends traffic to active revisions or labels for canary, blue-green, or A/B releases
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Container Apps workload profile
the Container Apps environment compute profile that controls resource size, scaling model, isolation, and billing behavior for deployed apps
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search
Azure AI Search is a managed retrieval service for full-text, vector, hybrid, and semantic search across application and enterprise content. It provides search services, indexes, indexers, skillsets, ranking features, security controls, and APIs used by apps, copilots, and knowledge portals.
Search
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search, AI Search, Azure Cognitive Search, enterprise search, vector search, hybrid search, semantic search, Search service
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Databases
premium
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
The native document database API of Azure Cosmos DB for JSON data, SQL-like queries, partitioning, indexing, and scalable request-unit throughput.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Cosmos DB NoSQL API, Azure Cosmos DB SQL API
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Storage
premium
Azure Files SMB
Azure Files SMB is the Azure Files capability for mounting managed file shares through the Server Message Block protocol. It helps Windows, app, and infrastructure teams move familiar mapped-drive and application share patterns to Azure without running and patching Windows file servers for common shared storage. You see it when Windows users need mapped drives, apps expect UNC paths, profile containers need shared storage, or branch offices need cloud-backed shares. 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.
SMB file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: SMB Azure file shares, Azure Files SMB protocol
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Databases
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Azure SQL zone redundancy
Azure SQL zone redundancy places database replicas or storage across multiple availability zones in a supported region to improve resilience against datacenter-level failures.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
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Containers
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Container Apps job
A Container Apps resource for running scheduled, event-driven, or manual containerized tasks to completion.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
4 commands
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Databases
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Logical partition
A logical partition in Azure Cosmos DB is the group of items that share the same partition key value inside a container, forming the unit Azure uses to organize storage, route requests, and enforce important scale limits in governed production environments.
Azure Cosmos DB
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Databases
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Azure SQL tempdb
Azure SQL tempdb refers to the SQL engine temporary workspace used for temporary tables, table variables, internal worktables, sorting, version store activity, and other transient database operations.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
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Azure SQL firewall rule
An Azure SQL firewall rule is an allow-list entry for public network access to Azure SQL Database. It says which client IP address or range may connect to a logical server or a specific database. It does not replace identity, passwords, Microsoft Entra authentication, or private networking; it only decides whether the network connection is.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL firewall rule, IP firewall rule, SQL firewall rule, database-level firewall rule, server-level firewall rule
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Azure SQL private endpoint
A database capability or setting in Azure SQL Database that helps teams store, query, scale, secure, and recover application data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL private endpoint, azure-sql-private-endpoint, azure-sql-database, azure-sql-logical-server, private-endpoint, private-dns-zone, vnet-peering, managed-identity, app-service-vnet-integration, azure-sql-firewall-rule, service-endpoint
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Containers
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Container Apps certificate
A certificate used for TLS on a Container Apps custom domain.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
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Container Apps exec
An interactive command execution feature for a running Container App replica.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
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