AZ-900 Certification Notes

Chapter 4.8 - Summary

Virtual Machines
- Virtualized hardware you control. Spin up ad down as needed. Take advantage of the Azure tools available. Priced per hour with many configurations available.
Scale Sets
- Sets of identical VMs. Scale sets automatically create and delete VMs for your application. Provides high availability and protects against server failures
App Services
- Managed platform to host your applications. Web app, containers and API. Supports a lot of programming languages
Azure Container Instances
- Hosts and runs your containers on Azure. Containers have less overhead than virtual machines and can be deployed consistently
Azure Kubernetes Service
- Open-source tool for orchestrating and managing many container images and applications. Uses clusters and pods to scale and deploy applications
Windows Virtual Desktop
- 100% virtualized Windows 10. Access with any device that has a browser and internet connection. Reuse licenses to save some money
Functions
- Serverless Azure offering. A function does one compute action each time it's invoked