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Azure (color)
Azure is the sky-blue color whose name came from Persian lajward (lapis lazuli) via Greek lazour and Old French azur, entering English in the early 14th century; it named the ultramarine pigment, later cobalt-blue smalt, and now a family of light blues.
Azure AI Content Safety
Azure AI Content Safety is a Microsoft cloud content moderation service, launched in 2023, that scores text and images for sexual content, violence, hate, and self-harm.
Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Foundry, renamed Microsoft Foundry, is Microsoft's unified Azure platform for building, deploying, evaluating, and governing generative AI applications and agents, offering a catalog of more than 10,000 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and others.
Azure API Management
Azure API Management is a Microsoft Azure service that publishes APIs securely to external, partner, and employee developers, combining a gateway, management plane, and developer portal.
Azure Cobalt 200
Azure Cobalt 200 is Microsoft's second-generation custom Arm-based server processor for Azure, announced in November 2025 with up to 50% higher performance than the Cobalt 100.
Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory is Microsoft's fully managed cloud ETL and data integration service, used to create pipelines that move and transform data at scale from cloud and on-premises sources.
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps, formerly Visual Studio Team Services, is a Microsoft cloud platform for software teams, combining work tracking, Git repos, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and package feeds.
Azure Digital Twins
Azure Digital Twins is a Microsoft Azure platform-as-a-service offering, announced in public preview at Ignite, that builds knowledge graphs from digital models of buildings, factories, and entire cities.
Azure Dragon (青龙)
The Azure Dragon (青龙, Canglong) is one of the Four Symbols of Chinese astronomy, a dragon figure representing the eastern sky, spring, and the element Wood.
Azure Event Hubs
Azure Event Hubs is Microsoft's fully managed, real-time event streaming platform (PaaS), ingesting millions of events per second via Kafka, AMQP 1.0, and HTTPS. Distinguished by partitioned logs, consumer groups, throughput-unit scaling, and a Kafka-compatible endpoint requiring no code changes; generally available since October 2014.
Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning is Microsoft's managed cloud platform for the ML lifecycle: training, deployment, MLOps, AutoML, a feature store, and online and batch endpoints, launched in 2015 and rebuilt as Azure ML service (preview 2017, GA 2018) with v2 SDKs replacing retiring v1.
Azure Midstream Holdings LLC
Azure Midstream Holdings LLC was a Houston, Texas natural gas gathering and midstream company formed in 2013, led by CEO Chip Berthelot with Energy Spectrum and Tenaska backing.
Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files is a Microsoft Azure file-storage service built on NetApp bare-metal hardware running ONTAP in Azure datacenters, aimed at high-performance workloads like SAP HANA.
Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI Service is a Microsoft Azure cloud service giving developers and enterprises access to OpenAI's generative AI models, announced in 2021 and generally available in 2023.
Azure Quantum
Azure Quantum is Microsoft Azure's cloud quantum computing service, announced in 2019, giving developers access to trapped-ion, neutral-atom, and superconducting quantum hardware from partners, programmed in the Q# language.
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform-as-a-service relational database on Microsoft Azure, built on the SQL Server engine and launched as SQL Azure in 2010.
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics is Microsoft's unified cloud analytics platform, formerly Azure SQL Data Warehouse, announced November 4, 2019. It combines dedicated and serverless SQL pools, Apache Spark, and Data Factory-style pipelines, with Microsoft now steering new customers to Fabric.
Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Virtual Machines is the infrastructure-as-a-service offering of Microsoft Azure, providing on-demand Windows and Linux virtual machines, billed hourly by size, with scale sets and availability options.
Azure Window
The Azure Window (It-Tieqa tad-Dwejra) was a 28 m limestone sea arch at Dwejra, Gozo, Malta, famous from Game of Thrones, which collapsed in a storm on 8 March 2017 and is now a dive site.
Azuri
Azuri was a king of Ashdod, a Philistine city and Assyrian vassal, whom Sargon II deposed in the 710s BC for withholding tribute and plotting against Assyria.
Azurin
Azurin (cupredoxin) is a small ~14 kDa blue copper protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa that carries single electrons in anaerobic respiration and denitrification; a type 1 copper site (His46, His117, Cys112, axial Met121, Gly45) and a model for electron transfer, protein electronics, and anticancer peptide p28.
Azurite
Azurite, also known as blue malachite or lapis armenius, is a deep blue copper carbonate mineral found in oxidized copper deposits, used as copper ore and a Renaissance pigment.
Azusa Inaba (稲葉あずさ)
Azusa Inaba (稲葉あずさ), born 2007, is a Japanese joshi wrestler for JTO and Stardom's H.A.T.E unit, sister of Tomoka Inaba, a multi-time JTO Girls champion and self-produced show promoter.
Azusa Pacific University
Azusa Pacific University (APU), private evangelical Christian university in Azusa, California, founded 1899 as the Training School for Christian Workers; R2 Carnegie doctoral university, over 7,000 students, HSI and AANAPISI, 18th president Adam J. Morris since 2022.
Azusa Street Revival
The Azusa Street Revival was a Pentecostal religious awakening held in Los Angeles from 1906 to about 1909, led by the preacher William J. Seymour.
Azusa Tadokoro (田所 あずさ)
Azusa Tadokoro (田所あずさ, born 1993) is a Japanese voice actress and Lantis singer from Ibaraki, 36th Horipro Scout Caravan grand prix winner, voice of Mogami Shizuka in The Idolmaster Million Live!, Symboli Rudolf, and Moroha; INSPION Agency member since April 2026.
Azusa, California
Azusa, California: general law city in Los Angeles County, 27 miles northeast of Los Angeles at the entrance to San Gabriel Canyon; founded 1887, incorporated 1898; about 50,000 residents, municipal light and water utilities.
Azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava
Azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava (ACIVC, interrupted IVC with azygos continuation) is a rare congenital venous anomaly: the hepatic IVC segment is absent and lower-body blood drains via a dilated azygos vein to the SVC, often with polysplenia or congenital heart disease.
Azygos vein
The azygos vein is the unpaired vein of the right posterior thorax that drains the thoracic wall, arches over the right main bronchus, and empties into the superior vena cava.
Azza al-Mayla
Azza al-Mayla (عزة الميلاء) was a singing-girl and musician of Medina under the Umayyad caliphate, among the earliest women of the Hijaz to perform measured song.