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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
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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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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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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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 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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Management and Governance
learning-path-anchor
Template expression
A template expression computes values during ARM template deployment.
ARM deployments
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Template expression, template expression, Azure Template expression, ARM Template expression, ARM expressions, deployment expressions
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Management and Governance
learning-path-anchor
Template function
A template function is a built-in helper used by ARM templates or Bicep to calculate values.
ARM deployments
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Template function, template function, Azure Template function, ARM Template function, ARM functions, deployment functions
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Containers
learning-path-anchor
System node pool
A system node pool is the AKS worker pool that keeps the cluster itself functioning. It hosts core Kubernetes and AKS add-on pods such as DNS, networking agents, metrics, and connectivity components. You can technically run application pods there, but experienced teams avoid that because noisy workloads can starve the services that make the...
Azure Kubernetes Service
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AKS system pool, system mode node pool, AKS platform node pool, kube-system node pool
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Integration
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Throughput unit
An Event Hubs throughput unit is a capacity setting in the Standard tier that controls how much ingress and egress a namespace can handle. Operators size TUs, enable Auto-inflate, and monitor throttling so event producers and consumers keep moving data without ServerBusy errors during traffic spikes.
Event Hubs
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: Throughput unit, throughput unit, Azure Throughput unit, Microsoft Learn Throughput unit, Event Hubs TU, TUs, Event Hubs throughput units, Auto-inflate capacity
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Databases
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Time to live
Time to live in Azure Cosmos DB automatically expires items after a configured number of seconds. TTL can be set at the container level and overridden per item, helping teams remove stale operational data, limit storage growth, and keep queries focused on current records.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Time to live, time to live, Azure Time to live, Microsoft Learn Time to live, TTL, Cosmos DB TTL, defaultTtl, item expiration, container TTL
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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
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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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Integration
premium
Capacity unit
A capacity measure used by Event Hubs Dedicated clusters.
Messaging and eventing
intermediate
6 commands
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Databases
premium
PostgreSQL high availability
PostgreSQL high availability means Azure keeps a standby flexible server ready so the database can continue after certain failures or planned failover events. Instead of relying on one server instance, the primary and standby are kept in sync. Depending on the design, the standby can be in the same availability zone or a different zone. This reduces downtime risk, but it does not remove every responsibility. Applications still need retry logic, connection handling, monitoring, tested failover procedures, and a cost owner because high availability adds real infrastructure.
PostgreSQL flexible server
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: PostgreSQL high availability, postgresql high availability, Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
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Containers
premium
ACR geo-replication
ACR geo-replication keeps container images closer to workloads in multiple regions. Developers push to one registry, and Azure replicates content so regional clusters can pull faster and more reliably, assuming the registry uses the Premium tier.
Azure Container Registry
intermediate
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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Containers
premium
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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Integration
premium
Event Grid MQTT broker
An Event Grid MQTT broker is the MQTT publish-subscribe capability in Event Grid namespaces that authenticates clients, authorizes publish and subscribe requests, and routes MQTT messages between interested clients. Teams use it to connect MQTT clients, devices, and services through managed publish-subscribe messaging without running a separate broker platform. It is not a general Event Grid custom topic or an IoT Hub device registry replacement. 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 MQTT broker, MQTT broker in Event Grid namespaces
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Integration
premium
Event Grid system topic
An Event Grid system topic represents one or more events published by an Azure service for a specific Azure resource or scope. Teams use it to subscribe to events emitted by Azure services such as Storage, Event Hubs, IoT Hub, Key Vault, or Resource Manager. It is not a custom topic where an application publishes its own events or a partner topic from an external provider. 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 system topic, system topic
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Integration
premium
Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs is a fully managed, real-time data streaming platform for ingesting large volumes of events with low latency and routing them to consumers for processing. Teams use it to collect telemetry, application events, logs, clickstreams, and device data at scale before analytics, functions, or downstream services process them. It is not a queue for command messages, a workflow engine, a database, or an Event Grid routing topic for discrete platform events. In production, confirm the namespace, event hub, partitions, capacity, identity, network path, consumer group, checkpoint behavior, monitoring, and owner before treating the stream as safe.
Event Hubs
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Event Hubs, Azure Event Hubs service
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Integration
premium
Kafka endpoint
Kafka endpoint is the Kafka-compatible protocol endpoint on Azure Event Hubs that lets Kafka clients produce to and consume from event hubs without operating Kafka brokers.
Event streaming
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Event Hubs Kafka endpoint, Apache Kafka endpoint, Kafka-compatible endpoint, Kafka protocol endpoint
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Containers
premium
Kubelet identity
Kubelet identity controls how AKS nodes authenticate to Azure resources for node-level tasks, especially pulling container images from registries without embedded secrets. Teams see it in aks identity profile, node pools. It is not cluster control-plane identity, workload identity, pod managed identity, service account token, kubeconfig credential, or container registry admin user; confusing them can create image pull failures, overbroad registry access. 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.
AKS identity
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: AKS kubelet identity, node pool kubelet identity, AKS node managed identity, identityProfile kubeletidentity
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Analytics
premium
Kusto data connection
Kusto data connection links Azure Data Explorer to event or storage sources such as Event Hubs, Event Grid, or IoT Hub so data can be ingested into a database table.
Azure Data Explorer ingestion
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADX data connection, Event Hubs data connection, Event Grid data connection, IoT Hub data connection
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Analytics
premium
Kusto ingestion
Kusto ingestion is the process of loading data into Azure Data Explorer tables, where data is validated, mapped, indexed, encoded, and made queryable.
Azure Data Explorer ingestion
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADX ingestion, Azure Data Explorer ingestion, Kusto data ingestion
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Databases
premium
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database engine. In Azure, Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a managed Flexible Server service with compute, storage, backup, security, networking, monitoring, and high-availability capabilities for application and analytical workloads. across development, production, and migration scenarios.
Database
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL flexible server, managed PostgreSQL
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Search partition
A search partition is a capacity unit in Azure AI Search that provides storage and indexing resources for indexes. Increasing partitions expands index storage and can improve throughput for data ingestion and some query workloads. It is configured on the search service capacity model.
Azure AI Search
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search partition, Azure Search partition, search service partition, search capacity partition, partition count, search unit partition
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Search replica
A search replica is a copy of the Azure AI Search engine used to serve query and indexing workloads. Adding replicas increases query concurrency and availability, while partitions provide storage capacity; together they determine search units, cost, and production capacity-planning decisions.
Search
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search replica, search service replica, replica count, query replica, search capacity replica
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Analytics
premium
Serverless SQL pool
Serverless SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics lets users query data in the lake with T-SQL without provisioning dedicated SQL compute. It stores only metadata objects in databases, supports SELECT, CETAS, views, credentials, users, and object permissions, and charges based on data processed by queries.
Azure Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
5 commands
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Integration
premium
Service Bus geo-replication
Service Bus geo-replication is a Premium-tier feature that continuously replicates a namespace's metadata and message data from the primary region to a secondary region. It lets operators promote the secondary when the primary region degrades, preserving queues, topics, subscriptions, filters, and message state.
Service Bus
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Service Bus data replication, Service Bus regional replication, Service Bus secondary region, Service Bus namespace replication, Service Bus Premium geo replication
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Integration
premium
Service Bus transaction
Service Bus transaction is a broker-supported execution scope that commits or rolls back multiple messaging operations as one unit. Standard and Premium support transactions for sends, receives, completions, deferrals, dead-lettering, and related transfers, while management operations and Basic tier are outside that model.
Messaging
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Service Bus transaction, Service Bus transactional processing, broker transaction, atomic messaging operation
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Databases
premium
Shared database throughput
Shared database throughput in Azure Cosmos DB means RU/s are provisioned at the database level and shared by containers in that database. Microsoft recommends container-level throughput for most workloads because shared throughput can create unpredictable performance and scale behavior across containers.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Cosmos DB shared database throughput, database-level throughput, shared RU/s database, Cosmos DB database throughput, shared throughput database
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Management and Governance
premium
Subscription alias
A subscription alias is a handle for creating or tracking a subscription through automation. Instead of manually creating every subscription in the portal, platform teams can use aliases to request, inspect, and reconcile new subscriptions programmatically.
Management scopes
fundamentals
5 commands
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Analytics
premium
Auto Loader
Auto Loader is the Azure Databricks feature that watches cloud storage and brings in new files without forcing engineers to rescan everything manually. In plain terms, it is a safer ingestion pattern for folders that keep receiving CSV, JSON, Parquet, images, or other data files. It can process existing files, then continue with new.
Analytics platform
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Databricks Auto Loader, cloudFiles, Auto Loader cloud files, Lakeflow Auto Loader
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Integration
premium
Auto-inflate
Auto-inflate is Azure Event Hubs’ way to add more Standard tier throughput capacity when traffic grows. In plain terms, you set the namespace’s normal throughput units and an upper limit, and Event Hubs can increase capacity during busy periods. This helps absorb spikes without a person watching the portal every minute. It is especially.
Event Hubs
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Event Hubs Auto-inflate, Event Hubs auto inflate, throughput unit auto scale, Event Hubs throughput scaling
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Databases
premium
Autoscale throughput
Autoscale throughput is Azure Cosmos DB’s way to adjust request-unit capacity for a database or container as traffic changes. In plain terms, you set a maximum RU/s value, and Cosmos DB scales within that range instead of forcing you to pick one fixed manual throughput number. It is useful for workloads with bursts, uneven schedules, or.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Cosmos DB autoscale throughput, autoscale RU/s, autoscale provisioned throughput, max RU/s
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Databases
premium
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed database service for NoSQL, relational, and vector workloads. It supports global distribution, elastic scale, multiple APIs, request-unit capacity, backup, and high availability so modern applications can store and query data without operating database servers.
Azure Cosmos DB
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Cosmos DB, Cosmos DB, Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, Cosmos database, global NoSQL database, request-unit database
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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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Containers
premium
CPU scale rule
an autoscale rule that adds or removes running instances when CPU usage crosses a defined threshold for a sustained window.
Autoscale
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: CPU autoscale rule, Percentage CPU scale rule, Autoscale CPU rule
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Compute
premium
Custom Script Extension
a virtual machine extension that downloads and runs scripts on Azure VMs for post-deployment configuration, software installation, or management tasks.
Virtual Machines
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure VM Custom Script Extension, CustomScript extension, VM script extension
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Databases
premium
Elastic pool
An elastic pool in Azure SQL Database lets multiple databases on the same logical server share a set amount of compute and storage resources at a predictable price.
Azure SQL
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL elastic pool, SQL elastic pool
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Identity
premium
Enterprise application
Enterprise application properties in Microsoft Entra ID configure the organization-specific service principal settings for an application, including user assignment, single sign-on, provisioning, and ownership.
Microsoft Entra applications
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Entra enterprise application, service principal application, enterprise app
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Integration
premium
Service Bus namespace
A Service Bus namespace is the Azure management, DNS, identity, and network container for Service Bus messaging entities. It scopes queues, topics, subscriptions, rules, authorization settings, SKU choice, diagnostics, and access endpoints so applications can exchange brokered messages through one named service boundary.
Messaging
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Service Bus namespace, Namespace, Service Bus broker namespace
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Integration
premium
Service Bus premium tier
The Service Bus premium tier is the namespace pricing and capability tier that allocates dedicated messaging units to Azure Service Bus. It is chosen for production scenarios that need resource isolation, predictable capacity, private networking, full JMS support, Premium metrics, and advanced resiliency options.
Messaging
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Service Bus Premium tier, Premium messaging tier, Service Bus SKU Premium
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Integration
premium
Service Bus private endpoint
A Service Bus private endpoint is an Azure Private Link network interface that maps a virtual network to a Service Bus Premium namespace. It lets approved clients reach the namespace over private connectivity, reducing public exposure when DNS, network rules, and application routing are configured correctly.
Service Bus
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Service Bus private endpoint, Service Bus Private Link, Private endpoint for Service Bus
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Integration
premium
Service Bus Standard
Service Bus Standard is the shared-capacity Azure Service Bus tier that supports queues, topics, subscriptions, sessions, duplicate detection, transactions, scheduled messages, and forwarding. It is often used when advanced messaging features are needed without Premium dedicated capacity or isolation. for broad scenarios.
Service Bus
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Service Bus Standard, Service Bus Standard tier, Standard Service Bus namespace
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Compute
premium
cloud-init
A Linux initialization mechanism commonly used to configure VMs during first boot.
Virtual Machines
intermediate
3 commands
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Compute cluster
a managed Azure Machine Learning pool of CPU or GPU nodes that runs training, batch inference, and other jobs for a workspace
Machine learning
Intermediate
3 commands
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AI and Machine Learning
complete
Speech service
Microsoft Learn describes Azure Speech as a service for recognizing speech, synthesizing speech, translating speech, transcribing conversations, and integrating speech capabilities into applications or bots. In Azure, teams manage the Speech resource, endpoint, keys, networking, and usage controls. and monitoring responsibilities.
Azure AI services
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Speech, Azure AI Speech, Speech resource, SpeechServices account
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