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- Power BI Embedded Embed fully interactive, stunning data visualizations in your applications
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Hadoop instance for a week
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- Azure IoT Suite Capture and analyze untapped data to improve business results
- Azure IoT Hub Connect, monitor, and control millions of IoT assets
- Event Hubs Receive telemetry from millions of devices
- Stream Analytics Real-time data stream processing from millions of IoT devices
- Machine Learning Powerful cloud based predictive analytics tool to enable predictive maintenance
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- Media Services Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale
- Encoding Studio Grade encoding at Cloud Scale
- Azure Media Player A single player for all your playback needs
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- Content Protection Securely deliver content using AES, PlayReady, Widevine, and Fairplay
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- Backup Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud
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- Azure Active Directory Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
- Azure Active Directory B2C Consumer identity and access management in the cloud
- Azure Active Directory Domain Services Join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers
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- Automation Simplify cloud management with process automation
- Log Analytics Collect, search and visualize machine data from on-premises and cloud
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- Virtual Machine Scale Sets Create highly available, auto scalable Linux or Windows virtual machines
- Cloud Services Create highly available, infinitely scalable cloud applications and APIs
- Batch Run large-scale parallel and batch compute jobs
- RemoteApp Deploy Windows client apps in the cloud, run on any device
- Service Fabric Build and operate always-on, scalable, distributed applications
- Azure Container Service Use open source tools to deploy and manage containers
Get credits that enable:
4 Windows or Linux Virtual Machines
24 x 7 for a month
And much more...
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- Web & Mobile
- App Service Create web and mobile apps for any platform and any device
- Web Apps Quickly create and deploy mission critical Web apps at scale
- Mobile Apps Build and host the backend for any mobile app
- Logic Apps Automate the access and use of data across clouds without writing code
- API Apps Easily build and consume Cloud APIs
- Notification Hubs Push Notifications to millions of devices in seconds
- API Management Publish APIs to developers, partners and employees securely and at scale
- Mobile Engagement Increase app usage and user retention
- Functions Process events with serverless code
- Data & Storage
- Data & Storage
- SQL Database Managed relational SQL Database-as-a-service
- DocumentDB Managed NoSQL document database-as-a-service
- Redis Cache High throughput, low latency data access to build fast and scalable applications
- Storage: Blobs, Tables, Queues, Files and Disks Durable, highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage
- StorSimple Hybrid cloud storage for enterprises, reduces costs and improves data security
- Search Fully-managed search-as-a-service
- SQL Data Warehouse Elastic data warehouse-as-a-service with enterprise-class features
- SQL Server Stretch Database Dynamically stretch on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure
Get credits that enable:
8 standard SQL Databases
Hadoop instance for a week
And much more...
Learn more - Intelligence
Get credits that enable:
8 standard SQL Databases
Hadoop instance for a week
And much more...
Learn more - Analytics
- Analytics
- Data Lake Analytics Distributed analytics service that makes big data easy
- Data Lake Store Hyperscale repository for big data analytics workloads
- HDInsight Provision cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters
- Machine Learning Powerful cloud-based predictive analytics
- Stream Analytics Real-time stream processing
- Data Factory Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement
- Event Hubs Ingest, persist, and process millions of events per second
- Data Catalog Data source discovery to get more value from existing enterprise data assets
- Power BI Embedded Embed fully interactive, stunning data visualizations in your applications
Get credits that enable:
8 standard SQL Databases
Hadoop instance for a week
And much more...
Learn more - Internet of Things
- Internet of Things
- Azure IoT Suite Capture and analyze untapped data to improve business results
- IoT Developer Center Get started connecting your devices
- Azure IoT Hub Connect, monitor, and control millions of IoT assets
- Event Hubs Receive telemetry from millions of devices
- Stream Analytics Real-time data stream processing from millions of IoT devices
- Machine Learning Powerful cloud based predictive analytics tool to enable predictive maintenance
- Notification Hubs A scalable, push notification engine for quickly sending millions of messages
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Learn more - Networking
- Networking
- Virtual Network Provision private networks, optionally connect to on-premises datacenters
- ExpressRoute Dedicated private network fiber connections to Azure
- Traffic Manager Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability
- Load Balancer Deliver high availability and network performance to your applications
- Azure DNS Host your DNS domain in Azure
- VPN Gateway Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity
- Application Gateway Highly scalable websites with HTTP load balancing and delivery control
Connect Virtual Machines with Virtual Network for free.
Learn more - Media & CDN
- Media & CDN
- Media Services Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale
- CDN Deliver content to end-users through a robust network of global data centers
Get credits that enable:
Encoding 100GB of media
Transfer up to 1600GB of content
And much more...
Learn more - Enterprise Integration
- Enterprise Integration
- Logic Apps Automate the access and use of data across clouds without writing code
- BizTalk Services Seamlessly integrate the enterprise and the cloud
- Service Bus Connect across private and public cloud environments
- Backup Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud
- Site Recovery Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds
- Identity & Access Management
- Identity & Access Management
- Azure Active Directory Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
- Azure Active Directory B2C Consumer identity and access management in the cloud
- Azure Active Directory Domain Services Join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers
- Multi-Factor Authentication Safeguard access to your data and apps with an extra level of authentication
Get credits that enable:
Store 500,000 objects in Active Directory
Multi-factor auth with 100 users
And much more...
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- Visual Studio Application Insights Detect, triage, and diagnose issues in your web apps and services
- Azure DevTest Labs Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts
- Visual Studio Team Services Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software
- Management & Security
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- Scheduler Run your jobs on simple or complex recurring schedules
- Operations Management Suite Manage and protect your cloud and on-premises infrastructure
- Automation Simplify cloud management with process automation
- Log Analytics Collect, search and visualize machine data from on-premises and cloud
- Key Vault Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets
- Security Center Prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility
- Security Information Learn how Azure provides you a secure infrastructure on which you can build your cloud solutions
- Monitoring and Diagnostics Monitor, alert, and autoscale your Azure resources and use resource- and service-level logs to diagnose problems.
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