What is Azure Verified Modules? · Ultra Transcenders glossary

Building blocks in Terraform or Bicep, backed by Microsoft, for deploying Azure resources and whole patterns according to Well-Architected guidance.

Also called AVM.

In the Ultra Transcenders books

Each book explains Azure Verified Modules in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terraform
HashiCorp's open-source tool for describing infrastructure declaratively in HCL. For Azure it relies on four providers: AzureRM, AzAPI, AzureAD and AzureDevops.
Bicep
Domain-specific language for declaring Azure infrastructure as code, which is compiled into ARM templates.

Azure Deployment Environments
Retiring on 22 February 2027 (Microsoft points people to Azure Verified Modules, Bicep or ARM deployments and Azure DevOps or GitHub workflows). Until then, it gives developers self-service app infrastructure built from curated IaC definitions kept in dev center catalogs, governed by platform engineers.
Azure Landing Zones IaC Accelerator
Microsoft's preferred route to deploying and running the platform. A PowerShell bootstrap prepares GitHub or Azure DevOps with repositories, pipelines and runners, together with Bicep or Terraform code based on Azure Verified Modules.