SKU

In the Ultra Transcenders books

AZ-305AZ-104AZ-700AZ-900AI-200DP-900DP-750SC-300AZ-400AZ-802DP-600DP-700PL-300MD-102DP-800ALZ

Each book explains SKU in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Archive

  Offline access tier for blobs, cheapest to store yet dearest to access. Reading a blob means rehydrating it first, which can take as long as 15 hours.

• Premium

  Hosting plan for Azure Functions that keeps instances pre-warmed to avoid cold starts and supports VNet integration. Executions time out after 30 minutes by default, which host.json can extend.

• Azure Container Registry

  Private Azure registry for container images. Images can be geo-replicated, cleaned up by retention policies and built by ACR Tasks, while webhooks let a push kick off continuous deployment.

Related terms

• Application Gateway Basic SKU

  Low-traffic Application Gateway v2 SKU that supports header rewrite but omits WAF, mTLS and URL rewrite.

• Application Gateway v1

  First-generation Application Gateway SKU, with Standard and WAF tiers and authentication certificates, which retired on 28 April 2026. Gateways already on v2 cannot revert to it.

• Application Gateway v2

  Present-day Application Gateway SKU, Standard_v2 or WAF_v2, offering zone redundancy, autoscaling, a static VIP, Key Vault integration and header rewrite. It requires its own subnet, ideally a /24.

• az cognitiveservices account create

  Azure CLI command creating a Foundry Tools or Foundry resource based on --location, --sku and --kind. Customer-managed key configuration belongs in --encryption; --assign-identity merely creates a managed identity.

• AZ SKU

  Any VPN or ExpressRoute gateway SKU carrying the AZ suffix (VpnGw1AZ to 5AZ, ErGw1Az to 3Az). In regions with availability zones its instances spread across zones; in other regions it deploys regionally, becoming zone-redundant once zones are introduced there.

• Azure Firewall Premium

  Top Azure Firewall SKU, which builds on Standard with IDPS, TLS inspection, URL filtering and web categories; using those features requires a firewall policy on the Premium tier.

• Azure Firewall Standard

  Mid-level Azure Firewall SKU: it filters with application and network rules, can block known-bad addresses using threat intelligence and acts as a DNS proxy. Inspecting TLS traffic and IDPS are Premium-only.

• Azure Load Balancer

  Layer-4 load balancer operating within a region, with zone redundancy on the Standard SKU; it has no WAF, doesn't terminate TLS and can't route by URL.