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Web
premium
Custom domain
an organization-controlled DNS name bound to an Azure-hosted endpoint instead of the default service hostname.
Domains and TLS
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: custom hostname, custom DNS name, application custom domain
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Storage
premium
Minimum TLS version for Storage
Minimum TLS version for Storage is a storage account setting that rejects client connections using TLS versions below the configured minimum. Teams should manage it with clear ownership, monitoring, rollback evidence, and production change discipline.
Storage security
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: TLS minimum for storage, TLS1_2 storage, minimum TLS for Azure Storage, minimumTlsVersion, storage minimum TLS
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Web
field-manual-complete
App Service TLS binding
An App Service TLS binding tells App Service which certificate to use for a custom domain. Without it, your app might be reachable by name but still show browser warnings, serve the wrong certificate, or fail HTTPS checks. The binding connects a hostname, a certificate thumbprint, and a binding type such as SNI. For users, it is the difference between a trusted secure site and a launch that looks broken or unsafe. Treat it as launch-blocking configuration.
App Service Security
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: TLS binding, SSL binding, App Service certificate binding, custom domain HTTPS binding
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Databases
field-manual-complete
Redis TLS port
Redis TLS port is the connection path your Redis client uses when traffic must be encrypted. In many Azure Cache for Redis deployments, TLS clients use port 6380 while the old non-TLS port is 6379. Azure Managed Redis uses port 10000 for both TLS and non-TLS modes. The exact port matters because client libraries, firewall rules, private endpoints, health probes, and connection strings must agree. A wrong port can look like a Redis outage even when the cache is healthy.
Azure Managed Redis
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Redis SSL port, Redis encrypted port, Azure Redis TLS endpoint, Redis port 6380
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Storage
complete
Storage account minimum TLS
Microsoft Learn describes the storage account minimum TLS setting as the required Transport Layer Security version for requests to Azure Storage. Clients using older TLS versions can be rejected, helping teams enforce stronger encrypted transport for Blob, File, Queue, and Table access.
Storage accounts
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: minimum TLS for storage, Azure Storage TLS minimum, storage TLS floor, minimum transport security for storage
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Integration
verified
Receive and delete
Receive and delete is an Azure Service Bus receive mode where the broker considers a message settled as soon as it sends the message to the receiver. If transfer or processing fails afterward, the message is lost instead of being redelivered.
Azure Service Bus
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ReceiveAndDelete, receive-and-delete mode, destructive read, at-most-once receive
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Integration
verified
Receive-and-delete mode
A integration pattern or service capability in Messaging that helps teams connect services reliably without tightly coupling every component with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Messaging
fundamentals
5 commands
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Storage
complete
Storage account minimum TLS version
Microsoft Learn identifies minimumTlsVersion as the storage account property that sets the lowest Transport Layer Security version accepted by Azure Storage. Operators configure the value through portal, CLI, PowerShell, templates, or policy to block clients using older TLS versions. settings. consistently. consistently.
Storage accounts
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: minimumTlsVersion, storage minimum TLS version, TLS version setting for storage, Azure Storage TLS version
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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
5 commands
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Networking
premium
Front Door
Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s global edge service for modern web applications. Microsoft Learn describes it as a cloud CDN that provides fast, reliable, and secure access to static and dynamic content through Microsoft’s global edge network worldwide.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Front Door, AFD, Azure Front Door Standard, Azure Front Door Premium, global edge
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Networking
premium
Ingress
Ingress controls how users, APIs, partners, and internal services can reach a workload and which network controls protect that entry point. Teams see it in container apps ingress settings, kubernetes ingress controllers. It is not egress, a firewall rule alone, a load balancer backend pool, or an application route inside code; confusing them can create public exposure, unreachable apps. 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.
Application Networking
Fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: incoming application traffic, inbound app traffic, Container Apps ingress, external ingress, internal ingress
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Web
premium
App Service
Azure App Service is a managed HTTP-based platform for hosting web apps, REST APIs, and mobile back ends without managing the underlying servers. It helps learners understand where the concept appears in Azure operations and what to verify before changing it.
App Service
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: App Service, app service
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Web
premium
Managed certificate
A managed certificate in Azure App Service is a platform-created TLS certificate for a supported custom domain. Azure can issue and renew it for basic HTTPS protection, but it has limitations compared with uploaded, Key Vault, or purchased certificates. That context supports safer operational decisions.
TLS
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: App Service managed certificate, free managed certificate
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Storage
learning-path-anchor
Table service endpoint
A Table service endpoint is the address your application uses when it talks to Azure Table Storage. For a normal Azure Storage account, it looks like an account-specific table URL. That address is not just a string in a connection setting; it determines DNS resolution, firewall evaluation, private endpoint routing, TLS, SDK configuration, and what operators test during an outage. If the endpoint is wrong, the table might exist and credentials might be valid, but clients still fail to connect.
Table Storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Table endpoint, Table Storage endpoint, storage table endpoint, Table data-plane endpoint
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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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Web
field-manual-complete
App Service custom domain
An App Service custom domain lets people use your real website name instead of the default azurewebsites.net address. You prove that you own the DNS name, point DNS records at the web app, and add the hostname to App Service. The setting is simple on the surface, but production success depends on DNS propagation, ownership verification, TLS certificates, redirects, and whether traffic also passes through Front Door, Traffic Manager, or another edge service. Plan it like a release.
App Service
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: app service custom domain, custom domain
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App Hosting
field-manual-complete
App Service managed certificate
An App Service managed certificate is a free certificate that Azure App Service can issue for an eligible custom domain on a web app or function app.
App Service TLS
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure App Service managed certificate, app service managed certificate
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Web
field-manual-complete
Private certificate
A private certificate is a certificate your App Service app can use because the private key is available to the platform. Teams bring private certificates when they need to secure a custom domain with their own PFX certificate, use a wildcard certificate, import a certificate from Key Vault, or make the app present a certificate to another system. It is different from a public key certificate and from some managed certificate scenarios. Handle it like a secret: protect the private key, track expiry, and bind the right thumbprint to the right hostname.
App Service
intermediate
5 commands
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Web
strict-validated
Basic App Service tier
The Basic App Service tier is a dedicated-compute App Service plan tier intended for lower-scale production, development, or test web apps that need dedicated workers.
App Service plan tiers
fundamentals
5 commands
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Web
complete
Standard App Service tier
Microsoft Learn describes App Service plan tiers as the compute and feature boundary for apps hosted in Azure App Service. The Standard tier is a production-oriented tier that supports capabilities such as custom domains, TLS, autoscale, deployment slots, and larger dedicated capacity than entry-level tiers.
App Service plans
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: standard-app-service-tier, Standard App Service tier, App Service Standard tier, Standard App Service plan, S1 App Service plan, S2 App Service plan
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App platform
complete
Static Web Apps custom domain
Microsoft Learn describes custom domains for Azure Static Web Apps as mappings from your own domain name to a static web app. Configuration includes subdomain or apex-domain options, DNS records for validation and routing, and automatic SSL/TLS certificate creation for the custom domains you add.
Static Web Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-web-apps-custom-domain, Static Web Apps custom domain, Static Web App custom domain, SWA custom domain, custom hostname for Static Web Apps, staticwebapp hostname
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse Spark pool
A Synapse Spark pool is the workspace compute definition Azure Synapse uses to start Apache Spark sessions. It records node size, node count, autoscale behavior, runtime version, packages, and idle timeout so notebooks, Spark jobs, and pipelines get repeatable distributed processing.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
8 commands
Aliases: Apache Spark pool, Spark pool, Synapse Apache Spark pool, serverless Spark pool
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse workspace managed identity
A Synapse workspace managed identity is the workspace's own identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Instead of saving passwords, keys, or connection strings inside pipelines and notebooks, Synapse can use this identity to ask for tokens and reach trusted Azure resources. It is commonly used for Data Lake Storage, Key Vault, SQL, and linked service...
Synapse Analytics
intermediate
8 commands
Aliases: Synapse managed service identity, Synapse MSI, workspace system-assigned identity, Synapse workspace identity
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Analytics
premium
Databricks catalog
The top-level Unity Catalog namespace that organizes schemas, tables, views, volumes, models, functions, permissions, lineage, and governed data ownership.
Azure Databricks
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog catalog, Azure Databricks catalog, catalog object
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Databases
premium
PostgreSQL connection string
Application configuration that identifies the PostgreSQL server, database, port, authentication method, and TLS path used by a workload.
Data platform
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: PostgreSQL connection string, postgresql connection string, connection string, Azure Database for PostgreSQL connection string, FQDN, port 5432, port 6432
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Web
premium
Web App
A Web App is an Azure App Service application for hosting web applications, REST APIs, or mobile back ends without managing servers. It runs on an App Service plan, supports common language stacks or containers, and integrates with deployment, scaling, networking, identity, and monitoring features.
App Service
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Web App, App Service Web App, Microsoft.Web/sites, App Service app
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Containers
premium
AKS ingress controller
Microsoft Learn explains AKS ingress through Kubernetes ingress resources and controllers that route HTTP or HTTPS traffic to services in a cluster. AKS application routing options can configure ingress controllers, DNS integration, TLS handling, and related networking components for production applications.
AKS networking
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: AKS ingress, Ingress controller for AKS, Kubernetes ingress controller
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Containers
premium
Container Apps custom domain
A custom hostname assigned to a Container App ingress endpoint.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Integration
premium
Event Grid domain
Event Grid domain is an Event Grid resource that provides one publishing endpoint for many related domain topics in a large or multi-tenant event solution. In Azure, it shows up when a platform needs to manage thousands of related topics, tenant-specific subscriptions, or application-specific event streams without creating unrelated standalone topics. Teams use it to review domain endpoint, domain topics, access keys or identity controls, event subscriptions, RBAC, filters, publishing application logic, metrics, and tenant ownership model before changing production behavior. It is not a DNS custom domain, Event Grid namespace custom hostname, single custom topic, or Service Bus namespace.
Event routing
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Event Grid domain, event domain
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Networking
premium
Front Door profile
Front Door profile is the top-level Azure Front Door Standard or Premium resource that groups edge endpoints, routes, origins, domains, rule sets, security associations, and delivery settings. Teams use it to manage a global application entry point without treating each endpoint, route, or origin as a separate product. In daily Azure work, it shows up when engineers review edge architecture, add a new website, tune routing, attach custom domains, configure WAF, or troubleshoot global traffic. It is not the same thing as a single endpoint, DNS name, backend app, CDN cache rule, or web application firewall policy.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Front Door profile, AFD profile, Front Door Standard/Premium profile
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Networking
premium
Hybrid Connection
A Hybrid Connection lets an Azure App Service app reach a specific TCP host and port in another network through Azure Relay.
Azure App Service and Azure Relay
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Hybrid Connection, hybrid connection
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Storage
premium
Infrastructure encryption for storage
Infrastructure encryption for storage controls how Azure Storage applies optional double encryption to blobs, files, queues, or tables depending on account and scope configuration. Teams see it in storage account creation, encryption blade. It is not blob immutability, soft delete, encryption in transit, customer-managed key rotation, or disabling shared key authorization; confusing them can create storage accounts that cannot meet compliance, rebuild-only remediation. 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.
Azure Storage Security
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: storage infrastructure encryption, storage account double encryption, require infrastructure encryption, double encryption for Azure Storage
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Containers
premium
Internal ingress
Internal ingress controls whether a Container Apps workload can receive traffic only from internal callers such as APIs, jobs, service meshes, or workloads on connected networks. Teams see it in container apps ingress settings, managed environments. It is not external ingress, private endpoint for another service, App Service VNet integration, Kubernetes ingress, or an Azure Firewall rule; confusing them can create public exposure of internal services, unreachable APIs. 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.
Azure Container Apps
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Container Apps internal ingress, private ingress, internal-only ingress, VNet ingress
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Security
premium
Key Vault
Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for storing and controlling access to secrets, keys, and certificates. It helps applications, administrators, and automation protect sensitive values with encryption, access control, logging, purge protection, private networking, and managed integration across Azure workloads.
Secrets and keys
Fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Key Vault, Azure Key Vault, vault, secrets store, certificate vault, secure secrets store, key vault resource
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Web
premium
Shared App Service tier
The Shared App Service tier is a base App Service plan option where apps run on shared Azure virtual machines and receive CPU-minute quotas. It is intended for development and testing, not production workloads that need dedicated compute, autoscale, or predictable performance isolation.
App Service plans
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: App Service Shared tier, Shared App Service plan, D1 App Service plan, shared compute App Service, App Service D1
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse SQL CETAS
Synapse SQL CETAS means CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT. It creates external table metadata and exports the result of a T-SQL SELECT statement in parallel to files in Azure Storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for later SQL or lake consumption.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE AS SELECT, CETAS, Synapse CETAS, serverless SQL CETAS
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse SQL external table
A Synapse SQL external table is database metadata that lets Synapse SQL query files stored outside the database, usually in Azure Storage or ADLS Gen2. It references an external data source, file format, and file location for governed SQL analytics.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: external table in Synapse, Synapse external table, SQL external table, external table over lake files
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse SQL on-demand
Synapse SQL on-demand is the serverless SQL pool model in Azure Synapse Analytics. It lets teams run T-SQL queries over data in the lake without provisioning dedicated warehouse capacity, storing only metadata objects while using external data sources, views, functions, and security objects.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: SQL on-demand, Synapse serverless SQL, serverless SQL in Synapse, built-in serverless SQL pool
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse Studio
Synapse Studio is the browser-based workspace experience for Azure Synapse Analytics. It exposes hubs for data, development, integration, monitoring, and management, letting users author notebooks and SQL scripts, build pipelines, configure connections, review access, and work with Git-backed or live artifacts.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Synapse Studio, Synapse web workspace, Synapse workspace UI, Synapse authoring experience
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse workspace firewall
A Synapse workspace firewall is the IP allowlist around a Synapse workspace when it accepts public network traffic. It decides which client IPv4 ranges can attempt to connect before identity permissions are evaluated. It does not grant access by itself; a user or service still needs the right Azure, Synapse, or SQL permissions. It...
Synapse Analytics
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Synapse IP firewall rule, workspace firewall rule, Synapse workspace IP allowlist, Synapse public endpoint firewall
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Storage
learning-path-anchor
Sync group
A sync group is the container that tells Azure File Sync which cloud file share and which Windows Server folders should stay synchronized. Think of it as one file namespace with a hub in Azure and one or more on-premises or edge locations attached to it. If two groups represent different shares or business...
Files, queues, and tables
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure File Sync group, file sync group, sync topology, storage sync group
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Integration
premium
AMQP 1.0
AMQP 1.0 is the protocol path Service Bus and Event Hubs clients use for reliable Azure messaging, including native AMQP and WebSockets transport choices.
Messaging protocols
Intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0, AMQP, AMQP over WebSockets, AMQP transport
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Networking
premium
Application Gateway
Application Gateway is an Azure web traffic load balancer for HTTP and HTTPS applications. It routes requests by host name, path, listener, rule, backend pool, and health status, and can add TLS termination and Web Application Firewall controls when those features are configured.
Application delivery
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Application Gateway, App Gateway, regional layer 7 load balancer, HTTP application load balancer
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Networking
premium
Application Gateway HTTP setting
the Application Gateway backend configuration that controls how the gateway connects to backend servers for HTTP or HTTPS requests.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Application Gateway HTTP setting, application gateway http setting
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Compute
premium
Availability set
Availability set is a placement group for Azure virtual machines that spreads instances across separate fault and update domains inside one datacenter. In Azure, teams encounter it when architects deploy two or more classic VM instances for an application tier that still needs datacenter-level hardware separation. The useful question is what behavior it proves, who
Availability
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: VM availability set, fault domain set, update domain set
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL transparent data encryption
Azure SQL Transparent Data Encryption helps protect Azure SQL Database data, log files, and backups at rest by encrypting and decrypting database pages without requiring application changes.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
4 commands
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Databases
premium
Cosmos DB database
An Azure Cosmos DB database is a unit of management for one or more containers within an account and acts as a namespace for child resources.
Cosmos DB
fundamentals
4 commands
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Networking
premium
DNS zone
A DNS zone is an Azure DNS container for record sets that answer names under a domain. Public zones publish internet-resolvable records after registrar delegation, while private zones resolve only for linked virtual networks and support private endpoint and internal naming patterns.
DNS
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure DNS zone, DNS zone, public DNS zone, private DNS zone, hosted zone
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Integration
premium
Email Communication Services
Email Communication Services is the Azure Communication Services email capability used to create email resources, configure domains and senders, and send transactional or application email through Azure.
Azure Communication Services
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Communication Services Email, ACS Email, Email Communication Service
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Networking
premium
Front Door endpoint
A Front Door endpoint is a logical grouping of one or more routes associated with domain names in an Azure Front Door profile.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Front Door endpoint, AFD endpoint, azurefd.net endpoint
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