Azure Knowledge : For Beginners...... An Introduction to Azure and It's Portals

  • A Little  Introduction to Azure and It's Portals:


  • About Azure:

  • Windows Azure was released by Microsoft in the year of 2010 and later it got renamed to Microsoft Azure in the year of 2014 as it is expanded the cloud support to all the Microsoft Products such as Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics, Bing, One Drive, Skype, and Xbox Live and other products of Microsoft.

  • Evolution of Microsoft Azure:

  • Azure Services are provided with two portals.

  • 1) Azure Service Management Portal

  • 2) Azure Resource Management Portal


  • 1) Azure Service Management Portal: 

  • This Portal is also called as Classic or Management Portal.

  • In this Portal all the resources in the cloud should be created under "Cloud Services" Group.

  • Note: with out creating the cloud service group, we were not able to create the resources in this portal.


  • From Jan 8th,2018 Microsoft withdraw the Public Availability of Azure Service Management Portal to General Public.

  • Where now it is mandate to use ARM Portal for everyone.


  • 2) Azure Resource Manager:

  • This Portal is also called as ARM Portal

  • In this Portal all the resources in the cloud should be created under Resource Group.

  • Note: with out creating the Resource Group we can't create any resources in the cloud.


  • Different Services that any Cloud Offers:

  • IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service)

  • PAAS (Platform As A Service)

  • SAAS (Software As A Service)


  • Various Services being offered by Azure Specific:

  • IDAAS (Identity and Directory Management As A Service or Identity and Access Management As A Service)

  • Azure Active Directory is called as IDAAS.

  • SeAAS (Search As A Service) and many more.................




  • A Brief Understanding about Each Cloud Service:


  • Green Color:  Can be controlled by Cloud User.

  • Red Color:  Controller by Cloud Provider


  • IAAS:





  • PAAS:


  • SAAS:





  • Hierarchy of Resource in Azure:
  • According to hierarchy only Azure Active Directory is the resource which can be created with out creating any Resource Group.


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