Updated: March 12, 2024 (March 10, 2024)

Azure Resource Provisioning Offerings Compared

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Offering	Description	Delivered Via	Recent Microsoft Emphasis	General Availability Date	Future Microsoft Investment
Azure portal, CLI, PowerShell, and APIs	Baseline functionality (UI and APIs) for managing Azure	Web site, CLI, SDKs	Large	2014 (with Azure Resource Manager)	█ █ █ █ █
Deployment Environments	Helps development teams repeatably provision Azure resources	Service	Large	May 2023	█ █ █ █ █
Landing Zones	Prepare an Azure environment before applications and data are deployed	Guidance, tools, and templates	Small	Sept. 2018	█ █ █ █
DevTest Labs	Organizes and optimizes the use of Azure resources for development and test	Service	Small	May 2016	█ █
Azure Dev CLI	Handles infrastructure setup to do Azure-based development (separate from Azure CLI)	CLI	Medium	2023	█ █ █
ARM Templates	JSON format declarative files that provision Azure resources	Framework, JSON files	Medium	2014	█ █ █ █
Template specs	Azure resources that store ARM templates for reuse	Azure resources	Medium	May

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