Glossary

• Annualized failure rate (AFR): The estimated probability that a device or component will fail during a full year of use.
• App modernization: The modernization of an existing IT asset involving either its refactoring or re-architecture, or both. The goals of app modernization are often to produce cost and operational efficiencies in the cloud.
• Availability Zone: A fault-isolated area within an Azure region with redundant power, cooling, and networking components.
• Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): A type of authentication in which users are asked to verify their identity through an additional form of identification, such as a fingerprint or a code on their mobile phone.
• Azure Arc: Enables you to view and manage compute resources, whether they are on-premises, across multiple vendor clouds, or distributed on the network edge, through the Azure management interface and operating model.
• Azure Connected Machine agent: A software package that enables...