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Internet of Things
premium
IoT Edge
IoT Edge is the Azure IoT runtime and deployment pattern that runs cloud-managed container modules on local edge devices while communicating with IoT Hub.
Edge computing
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure IoT Edge, IoT Edge runtime, edge modules, edgeAgent, edgeHub, edge device
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Hybrid and Multicloud
premium
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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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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Databases
command-rich
Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin
Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin is a managed graph database service for storing, querying, and traversing graph data with the Gremlin language.
Data platform
intermediate
4 commands
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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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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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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
premium
Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on Azure, delivering Windows desktops and RemoteApp experiences with host pools, session hosts, and flexible control.
Virtual desktops
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: AVD
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Containers
premium
Connected registry
an Azure Container Registry capability that keeps container images available in remote, edge, or intermittently connected environments by syncing with a parent registry
Azure Container Registry
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
Front Door origin group
A Front Door origin group is a logical grouping of origins that receives similar traffic and controls health probing and load balancing behavior.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Front Door origin group, AFD origin group, backend pool in Front Door, origin pool
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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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Monitoring and Observability
premium
Interaction to Next Paint
Interaction to Next Paint controls how teams measure whether web pages feel responsive after real user interactions, especially for Azure-hosted web apps and customer portals. Teams see it in microsoft edge devtools, microsoft clarity dashboards. It is not server response time, Time to First Byte, First Input Delay, Cumulative Layout Shift, or a backend CPU metric; confusing them can create slow clicks, abandoned checkout flows. 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.
Web Vitals
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: INP, Core Web Vitals INP, web responsiveness metric, interaction responsiveness
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Internet of Things
premium
IoT Hub
IoT Hub is the managed Azure service that provides secure, bidirectional communication between IoT applications and their connected devices at scale.
Device messaging
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure IoT Hub, device-to-cloud messaging, cloud-to-device messaging, IoT message hub, IoT Hub endpoint
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Integration
premium
API Management gateway
The API Management gateway is the component that receives API requests, applies policies, routes traffic to backends, and returns responses to callers.
API Management
intermediate
4 commands
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Integration
premium
API Management operation
An API Management operation is one callable action inside an API, such as GET /orders or POST /claims. It tells Azure API Management which HTTP method, URL template, parameters, and display name should be exposed to consumers. The operation can map to a backend route, return a mock response, accept.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: APIM operation, API operation in API Management
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Integration
premium
API Management revision
An API Management revision is a safe working copy of an API for changes that should not break consumers. You create a revision, adjust operations, descriptions, policies, or backend settings, test the changes, and then make that revision current when it is ready. Existing consumers keep using the.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: APIM revision, API revision
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Integration
premium
API Management self-hosted gateway
An API Management self-hosted gateway is a containerized copy of the API Management gateway that runs where your APIs live, such as on-premises, another cloud, or an Azure Kubernetes environment. Azure API Management remains the place where teams define APIs, products, policies, and observability..
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: APIM self-hosted gateway, self-hosted API gateway
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Integration
premium
API Management version
An API Management version is a separate version of an API that helps teams handle breaking changes. Clients can keep using an older version while newer clients adopt the new version when ready. Versions can be identified through a path, header, or query parameter, depending on the versioning.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: APIM version, API version in API Management
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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 backend pool
the group of backend targets that an Application Gateway can forward matched requests to after a listener and routing rule select them.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Application Gateway backend pool, application gateway backend pool
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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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Networking
premium
Application Gateway listener
the Application Gateway component that waits for client requests on a frontend IP address, port, protocol, and optional hostname or certificate.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Application Gateway listener, application gateway listener
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Networking
premium
Application Gateway routing rule
the Application Gateway component that connects a listener to a backend pool, backend settings, redirect, or path-based routing decision.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Application Gateway routing rule, application gateway routing rule
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Security
premium
Application Gateway WAF policy
An Application Gateway WAF policy stores Web Application Firewall configuration for Application Gateway v2. It includes managed rules, custom rules, exclusions, and policy settings, and can be associated globally, with a listener, or with a path-based rule for targeted web request inspection.
Web application firewall
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Application Gateway WAF policy, WAF policy for Application Gateway, Azure WAF policy, regional WAF policy
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Hybrid and Multicloud
premium
Azure Arc
A hybrid and multicloud management platform that extends Azure governance, security, operations, and services to resources running outside Azure.
Hybrid management
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Arc, Arc-enabled infrastructure, Azure Arc hybrid management
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Hybrid and Multicloud
premium
Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
An Azure Arc capability that connects Kubernetes clusters running anywhere to Azure for centralized management, governance, security, and application operations.
Hybrid management
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Arc-enabled Kubernetes, Azure Arc Kubernetes, connected Kubernetes cluster
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Hybrid and Multicloud
premium
Azure Arc-enabled server
A Windows or Linux physical server or virtual machine outside Azure that is connected to Azure Arc and managed as an Azure resource.
Hybrid management
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Arc-enabled server, Azure Arc server, connected machine, hybrid machine
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Databases
premium
Cosmos DB API for Gremlin
Managed Cosmos DB graph API for relationship-heavy workloads that model data as vertices, edges, properties, and Gremlin traversals.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin, API for Gremlin, Gremlin API
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Integration
premium
Developer portal
The developer portal is the Azure API Management portal where API consumers discover APIs, read documentation, sign in, subscribe to products, retrieve subscription details, and test API operations when allowed.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: API Management developer portal, APIM developer portal, developer portal in API Management, API consumer portal
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Internet of Things
premium
Device identity
A device identity is the IoT Hub identity registry entry that represents a permitted device or module, including its device ID, authentication material, status, and connection-related metadata.
IoT identity
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: IoT Hub device identity, IoT device registry identity, device registry entry, IoT device ID
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Internet of Things
premium
Device Provisioning Service
Device Provisioning Service is an Azure IoT helper service that enables zero-touch, just-in-time provisioning of devices to one or more linked IoT hubs using enrollments and allocation policies.
IoT provisioning
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service, IoT DPS, DPS, zero-touch device provisioning
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Internet of Things
premium
Device twin
A device twin is the IoT Hub JSON document that stores device metadata, tags, desired properties, and reported properties so cloud applications and devices can synchronize configuration and state.
Device state
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: IoT Hub device twin, device twin properties, twin desired properties, twin reported properties
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Networking
premium
Front Door cache purge
A Front Door cache purge removes selected cached content from Azure Front Door edge locations so future requests retrieve fresh content from the origin.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Front Door cache purge, AFD cache purge, Front Door purge content
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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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Networking
premium
Front Door origin
A Front Door origin is a backend application or service endpoint that Azure Front Door can route client requests to through an origin group.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Front Door origin, AFD origin, origin server, backend origin
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Networking
premium
Front Door route
Front Door route is the Azure Front Door configuration that decides which domain and path patterns send user requests to which origin group. Teams use it to connect edge endpoints and custom domains to backend applications while controlling accepted protocols, forwarding behavior, caching, and rule-set association. In daily Azure work, it shows up when engineers add APIs, split static and dynamic paths, migrate origins, route traffic between regions, or investigate why a request reached the wrong backend.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AFD route, Azure Front Door route, edge route
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Networking
premium
Front Door rules engine
Front Door rules engine is the Azure Front Door capability that applies edge rules to matching requests before they are sent to an origin. Teams use it to move selected routing, redirect, rewrite, header, and cache behavior to the edge instead of baking every rule into application code. In daily Azure work, it shows up when engineers tune SEO redirects, add security headers, rewrite paths, vary caching, preserve legacy URLs, or explain unexpected behavior before the origin ever receives traffic.
Application delivery and API edge
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: Front Door rule set, AFD rule set, rules engine
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Networking
premium
Load balancer frontend IP
Microsoft Learn describes a Load Balancer frontend IP configuration as the address-facing entry point that receives client traffic for a load balancer. It can use a public or private IP address and is connected to rules, probes, and backend pools.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
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Networking
premium
Load balancer health probe
Microsoft Learn describes an Azure Load Balancer health probe as the check that determines whether backend pool instances are healthy enough to receive new traffic. Probe configuration includes protocol, port, interval, and threshold choices that influence traffic distribution. Operators should review it with the connected Azure resource settings.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
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Networking
premium
Load balancer rule
Microsoft Learn describes a load-balancing rule as the configuration that maps a frontend IP address and port to backend pool addresses and ports. The rule defines how incoming traffic is distributed and which health probe validates backend availability. Operators should review it with the connected Azure resource settings.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
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Networking
premium
Outbound rule
An outbound rule is a Standard Azure Load Balancer configuration that controls outbound SNAT for backend pool instances. It defines which frontend IP configurations are used, which backend pool receives outbound access, protocol behavior, allocated SNAT ports, idle timeout, and optional TCP reset handling.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Load Balancer outbound rule, outbound NAT rule, SNAT rule, Standard Load Balancer egress rule
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
AI red teaming
AI red teaming is the practice of probing a generative AI system with adversarial prompts, attack strategies, and risk categories to discover unsafe behavior, jailbreak weaknesses, and harmful-output paths before or after deployment.
Responsible AI
advanced
3 commands
Aliases: AI Red Teaming Agent, red team scan, adversarial AI testing, LLM red teaming
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Analytics
verified
Result set cache
Microsoft Learn describes result set caching in Azure Synapse dedicated SQL pool as a feature that stores query results in the user database for reuse. When a repeated query can use cached results, it avoids recomputation, reduces compute use, and does not consume concurrency slots.
Synapse Analytics
intermediate
7 commands
Aliases: result set caching, Synapse result set cache, SET RESULT_SET_CACHING, cached query results, dedicated SQL pool result cache
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Networking
verified
VPN Gateway
VPN Gateway is an Azure virtual network gateway that creates encrypted VPN tunnels between an Azure virtual network and on-premises networks, remote clients, or other VNets, using configurations such as site-to-site, point-to-site, and VNet-to-VNet connections. for hybrid networks.
Hybrid connectivity
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure VPN Gateway, virtual network gateway for VPN, site-to-site VPN gateway, point-to-site VPN gateway
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Networking
template-specs-upgraded
Rewrite rule
Application Gateway rule logic for modifying request or response headers and URLs before backend handling.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Application Gateway rewrite rule, URL rewrite rule, HTTP header rewrite rule, rewrite rule set, App Gateway rewrite
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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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Networking
field-manual-complete
URL path map
A URL path map is an Azure Application Gateway configuration that routes requests to different backend pools based on path patterns in the URL. It connects path rules, backend targets, and HTTP settings so one gateway can serve multiple application paths.
Application Gateway
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: path-based routing map, Application Gateway path map, URL route map, path rule map
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Networking
top-250-pre130-priority-upgraded
Inbound NAT rule
Inbound NAT rule is an Azure Load Balancer rule that maps a frontend IP address and port to a backend virtual machine or scale-set instance port for inbound connectivity in Azure.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Inbound NAT rule, inbound nat rule, inbound-nat-rule
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Networking
field-manual-complete
Load balancer backend pool
Microsoft Learn describes a backend pool as the collection of resources that receive traffic from an Azure Load Balancer. Backend pools can include instances added through network interfaces or IP addresses, and multiple pools can serve different traffic groups.
Application delivery and API edge
intermediate
4 commands
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Monitoring and Observability
verified
P99
P99 is the 99th percentile of a measured set, such as request duration or dependency latency. In Azure monitoring and Kusto queries, it shows the value at or below which 99 percent of samples fall, helping teams examine extreme tail behavior.
Performance telemetry
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: 99th percentile, p99 latency, tail percentile, extreme tail latency
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