Logical container that places Azure compute resources physically near one another to cut latency. A scale set or VM can join one only if it is in the same region.
Also called PPG.
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Terms in this definition
- Logical
Independent of any implementation. Each logical design is made real through a physical counterpart.
- Container
Something that groups data. Blob Storage containers sit inside a storage account and hold blobs much as folders hold files; Cosmos DB containers hold items and set the scope for partitioning and throughput.
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
- JOIN
Combines rows from two or more tables in one SELECT, most often by pairing a primary key with the foreign key that refers to it.
- region
A provider-defined grouping in VCF Automation of Supervisors that all share one NSX Local Manager; tenants consume its compute, storage and memory via quotas set per region.