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Management and Governance
premium
Azure subscription
An Azure subscription is a management, billing, and scale unit for Azure resources.
Azure scope
fundamentals
7 commands
Aliases: subscription
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Management and Governance
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Bicep target scope
Bicep targetScope sets the deployment scope for a file, such as resource group, subscription, management group, or tenant.
Bicep
intermediate
4 commands
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Management and Governance
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Scope inheritance
Scope inheritance means children can receive rules from their parents. A policy or role assignment at a management group can affect subscriptions below it. This is powerful for governance, but it also means a high-scope mistake can spread quickly.
Management scopes
fundamentals
4 commands
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Management and Governance
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Scope
Scope means the boundary around an Azure action.
Azure governance
fundamentals
6 commands
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DevOps
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GitHub Actions for Azure
GitHub Actions for Azure is the set of GitHub workflow patterns and Azure actions used to sign in, build, test, package, deploy, and manage Azure resources from a repository. Teams use it to connect source control to Azure deployments while keeping workflow steps, identities, approvals, and release evidence in versioned automation. In daily Azure work, it shows up when engineers use azure/login, deploy web apps or functions, run Azure CLI scripts, deploy Bicep, push containers, or configure OIDC federation.
CI/CD
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure GitHub Actions, Azure actions, azure/login, GitHub Actions for Azure
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Management and Governance
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Tenant deployment
A tenant deployment is a Resource Manager deployment executed at Microsoft Entra tenant scope.
ARM deployments
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Tenant deployment, tenant deployment, Azure Tenant deployment, tenant scope deployment, az deployment tenant, ARM tenant deployment
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Integration
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Event Grid namespace
An Event Grid namespace is a logical container for Event Grid resources such as namespace topics, clients, client groups, topic spaces, certificates, and permission bindings. Teams use it to group Standard tier Event Grid resources for MQTT broker messaging and HTTP namespace topics under one managed Azure scope. It is not the same thing as a Basic tier custom topic, system topic, partner topic, or domain. In production, confirm the source, subscription, destination, filters, schema, identity, retry behavior, failure handling, monitoring, and owner before treating the route as safe.
Event Grid
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Event Grid namespace
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Management and Governance
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Policy parameter
A policy parameter is a safe input box for Azure Policy. Instead of writing separate policies for each allowed region, tag name, diagnostic workspace, or enforcement effect, you define the rule once and pass different values when assigning it. That makes policies easier to reuse across management groups, subscriptions, and environments. Parameters can include defaults, allowed values, friendly display names, and metadata, so platform teams can offer controlled choices without asking every application team to understand the full policy JSON.
Azure Policy
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Policy parameter, policy-parameter
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Management and Governance
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Resource group
A resource group is an Azure Resource Manager container that holds related resources for a solution.
Azure scope
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: RG, Azure resource group
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Management and Governance
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Management group deployment
A management group deployment is an ARM or Bicep deployment executed at management-group scope instead of subscription or resource-group scope. Teams use it when platform teams need to deploy governance resources across a management group hierarchy. In plain English, it gives operators a named control for repeatable policy, role, and subscription-level governance from the correct Azure scope 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.
ARM deployments
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Management group deployment, Azure Resource Manager, ARM deployments, ARM and Bicep governance deployments, subscription deployment, resource group deployment, tenant deployment, Azure Resource Manager and Bicep, ARM management group deployment, Bicep management group deployment
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Management and Governance
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Tenant scope
Tenant scope is the highest Azure Resource Manager deployment and governance context tied to a Microsoft Entra tenant.
Management scopes
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Tenant scope, tenant scope, Azure Tenant scope, tenant level scope, ARM tenant scope, targetScope tenant
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Analytics
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Databricks secret scope
A named Databricks collection of secrets used to store credentials and grant controlled read or manage access to workloads.
Databricks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Databricks secrets scope, secret scope, Azure Databricks secrets
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure OpenAI resource
An Azure OpenAI resource is the Azure control-plane boundary that hosts deployments, endpoints, access, networking, and billing context.
Azure OpenAI
fundamentals
12 commands
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI Service provides managed access to OpenAI model capabilities through Azure endpoints and enterprise controls.
Generative AI
fundamentals
11 commands
Aliases: Azure OpenAI
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Management and Governance
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Azure Policy
Azure Policy is a governance service for creating, assigning, and managing rules that evaluate Azure resources.
Azure Policy
fundamentals
7 commands
Aliases: Policy
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Developer Tools
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Azure PowerShell
Azure PowerShell is Microsoft’s Az module collection for managing Azure resources from PowerShell.
Command line
fundamentals
7 commands
Aliases: Az PowerShell module, Az module, Azure PowerShell, Azure PowerShell cmdlets, PowerShell for Azure
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Developer Tools
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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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Hybrid and Multicloud
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Azure Local
Azure Local is Microsoft’s distributed infrastructure solution that extends Azure capabilities to customer-owned environments for local VMs, containers, and selected Azure services through Azure Arc.
Distributed infrastructure
advanced
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Stack HCI, Azure Local infrastructure, Arc-enabled local infrastructure
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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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Containers
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ACR scope map
An ACR scope map is a reusable set of repository permissions in Azure Container Registry. It groups actions such as content read, content write, delete, and metadata access, then applies that permission boundary to one or more non-Microsoft Entra registry tokens.
Azure Container Registry
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Container Registry scope map, repository scope map, registry token scope map
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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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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
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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 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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DevOps
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Azure DevOps organization
The top-level Azure DevOps Services container that connects related projects, users, repositories, pipelines, artifacts, permissions, and organization settings.
Azure DevOps
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure DevOps org
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DevOps
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Azure DevOps project
A workspace inside Azure DevOps for a team to plan, track, code, build, test, deploy, and collaborate on software delivery.
Azure DevOps
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ADO project
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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 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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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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Management and Governance
premium
Azure Lighthouse
Azure Lighthouse enables secure delegated management of Azure resources across customer tenants, supporting service providers and central teams with scalable cross-tenant governance.
Delegated resource management
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Lighthouse, delegated resource management, Microsoft Managed Services delegation
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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning is a cloud service for managing the machine learning lifecycle, including workspaces, data, training jobs, model deployment, monitoring, and MLOps.
Machine learning operations
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Azure ML, AML, Machine Learning workspace
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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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Migration
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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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Storage
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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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AI and Machine Learning
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Azure OpenAI managed identity
Azure OpenAI managed identity uses Microsoft Entra identities so Azure workloads can call model endpoints without stored keys.
Azure OpenAI
intermediate
5 commands
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Management and Governance
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Azure reservation
An Azure reservation is a one-year or three-year commitment that provides discounted pricing for eligible Azure resource usage.
Cost Management
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Reservations, Azure reservation, reservation order, reserved capacity, reserved instance
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Monitoring and Observability
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Azure Resource Health
Azure Resource Health reports current and past health for individual Azure resources and helps diagnose service-impacting problems.
Operational hygiene
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Resource Health, Azure resource health status, Resource Health, resource availability status
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Management and Governance
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Azure savings plan
An Azure savings plan provides discounted pricing on eligible compute usage when you commit to an hourly spend for one or three years.
Cost Management
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure savings plan, Azure savings plans, compute savings plan, savings plan for compute
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Migration
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Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery helps provide disaster recovery by managing replication, failover, and failback for supported workloads.
Disaster recovery
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ASR, Azure Site Recovery, Azure disaster recovery, Site Recovery
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Storage
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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
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Azure SQL active geo-replication
Azure SQL active geo-replication creates readable secondary databases in other regions for database-level disaster recovery and failover.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL active geo-replication, SQL geo-replication, active geo-replication, geo-secondary database
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Databases
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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
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Azure SQL automated backup
Azure SQL automated backup automatically protects databases and supports point-in-time restore using service-managed backup chains.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL automated backup, Azure SQL automatic backups, SQL automated backups, point-in-time restore backups
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Databases
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Azure SQL automatic tuning
Azure SQL automatic tuning monitors query performance and can apply tuning actions such as plan correction and index recommendations.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL automatic tuning, Azure SQL tuning recommendations, SQL automatic tuning, automatic tuning
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Databases
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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
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Azure SQL database copy
Azure SQL database copy creates a transactionally consistent copy of an Azure SQL Database using portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Transact-SQL.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL copy, Azure SQL database copy, CREATE DATABASE AS COPY OF, SQL database copy, database copy
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Databases
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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
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Azure SQL elastic job
Azure SQL elastic jobs schedule and run Transact-SQL scripts across one or many Azure SQL databases, including target groups across servers, pools, and subscriptions.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Elastic Jobs, Azure SQL elastic job, SQL elastic job agent, elastic job agent, elastic jobs
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Databases
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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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