Azure Marketplace

The Azure Marketplace is a searchable service catalog that allows you to find software and services that have been optimized and, more importantly, certified to run on Azure. Not only can you find all the available Microsoft services, but the real benefit and value is that you can find the thousands of solutions and services available from many third-party vendors and other partners where, besides Azure resources, several also offer consulting services for hire as part of the Marketplace offering.

Apart from being able to browse by category to search for a certified firewall appliance to run in Azure, for example, you also have the option to create the actual service directly from the Marketplace; all the services will be deployed using ARM templates. The service creator creates these so that the deployments can be fully automated, and then creates the ARM templates in the background. When executed by you clicking Create, a set of parameters will be provided for...