Services that a provider such as Microsoft owns, operates and sells to any customer. Nothing needs buying upfront, and charges follow actual consumption.
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Terms in this definition
- Provider
The organisation that shares data in OpenSharing. Recipients also see a provider as a Unity Catalog securable, from which shares can be mounted as catalogs.
- Consumption
Serverless, event-driven Azure Functions hosting plan charged per execution; runs are capped at 10 minutes and VNet integration isn't available.
Related terms
- AWS
Short for Amazon Web Services, Amazon's public cloud. Linking AWS accounts to Microsoft Defender for Cloud brings them under its recommendations and protections.
- Multicloud
Simultaneous use of several public cloud providers, each run as a separate environment. Hybrid cloud is a different model.
- Tenant (P2S)
In a point-to-site gateway using Entra ID authentication, the field that takes https://login.microsoftonline.com/{TenantID} in Azure public cloud. A graph.microsoft.com address is never correct here.