Glossary

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Element
Description
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<i>AzureElement</i> Base class for Azure architecture elements
<i>Generic Resource</i> A resource which does not have a model class. Generic resources have "kind" (type).
<i>Location</i> A base class for Region and Availability Zone to associate with resource. Some resources may be deployed to multiple locations.
<i>ManagementGroupElement</i>
<i>Resource</i> An entity managed by Azure
<i>SubnetResource</i> Base class for resources connected to a Subnet
<i>VirtualNetworkResource</i> Base class for resources connected to a Virtual Network
App Service An HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends.
Availability Zone One or more physically and logically separated datacenters with their own independent power source, network, and cooling.
azure
AzureFiles
BlobStorage
compute
Container Instance Azure Container Instances (ACI) allows you to quickly and easily run containers on Azure without managing servers or having to learn new tools
DataLakeStorageGen2
Disk A block-level storage volume managed by Azure and used with Azure Virtual Machines
Disk Type Azure managed disks currently offers five disk types, each intended to address a specific customer scenario
disks Computed opposite to Disk.type
Kubernetes Service Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offers the quickest way to start developing and deploying cloud-native apps in Azure, datacenters, or at the edge with built-in code-to-cloud pipelines and guardrails
locations A resource can be associated with zero or more locations. E.g. a VM can be deployed to a region or a specific availability zone in a region. A kubernetes cluster can be deployed to several availability zones.
Management Group Management groups are containers that help manage access, policy, and compliance across multiple subscriptions
networking
NetworkInterface
PrivateEnpoint https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/private-link/private-endpoint-overview
PublicEndpoint
QueueStorage
Region A set of datacenters, deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network
RegionPair
Resource Group A container that holds related resources for an Azure solution
resources Resources connected to this subnet
resources Resources connected to this Virtual Network. Computed opposite to VirtualNetworkResource.virtualNetwork
Service
ServiceEndpoint
size Disk size in gigabytes
storage
Storage Account
Subnet
Subscription A logical container used to provision related resources
TableStorage
Tag
Tenant
Virtual Machine An image service instance that provides on-demand and scalable computing resources with usage-based pricing
Virtual Machine Image Initial contents of a VM disk used to initialize a VM
Virtual Machine Scale Set Azure virtual machine scale sets let you create and manage a group of identical, load balanced VMs.
Virtual Machine Size Size of a virtual machine in terms of CPU and RAM
Virtual Network
virtualMachines Computed opposite to VirtualMachine.image
virtualMachines Computed opposite to VirtualMachine.size
Workload https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/plan/workloads#what-is-a-workload