Azure basics

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Compute

Access cloud compute capacity and scale on demand – and only pay for the resources you use

• App Service: Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile.
• Azure Quantum: Jump in and explore a diverse selection of today’s quantum hardware, software, and solutions.
• Azure Spring Apps: Build and deploy Spring Boot applications with a fully managed service from Microsoft and VMware.
• Batch: Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management.
• Linux Virtual Machines: Provision virtual machines for Ubuntu, Red Hat, and more.
• Static Web Apps: A modern web app service that offers streamlined full-stack development from source code to global high availability.
• Virtual Machines: Provision Windows and Linux virtual machines in seconds.
• Azure Dedicated Host: A dedicated physical server to host your Azure VMs for Windows and Linux.
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Build and scale with managed Kubernetes.
• Container Instances: Easily run containers on Azure without managing servers.
• Azure CycleCloud: Create, manage, operate and optimise HPC and big compute clusters of any scale.
• Azure Spot Virtual Machines: Provision unused compute capacity at deep discounts to run interruptible workloads.
• Azure VMware Solution: Run your VMware workloads natively on Azure.
• Cloud Services: Create highly-available, infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs.
• SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud at lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets: Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows VMs.
• Azure Virtual Desktop: Enable a secure, remote desktop experience from anywhere.
• Azure VM Image Builder: Simplify your image building process with easy to use tool.
• Azure functions: Execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience.
• Service Fabric: Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows or Linux.

AI + Machine Learning

***Create the next generation of applications using artificial intelligence capabilities for any developer and any scenario

• Anomaly Detector: Easily add anomaly detection capabilities to your apps.
• Azure Cognitive Search: Enterprise scale search for app development.
• Azure Machine Learning: Use an enterprise-grade service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
• Azure Cognitive Services: Deploy high-quality AI models as APIs.
• Computer Vision: Distill actionable information from images.
• Custom Vision: asily customise your own state-of-the-art computer vision models for your unique use case.
• Face API: Detect, identify, analyse, organise and tag faces in photos.
• Azure Immersive Reader: Empower users of all ages and abilities to read and comprehend text.
• Language Understanding (LUIS): Teach your apps to understand commands from your users.
• Personaliser: An AI service that delivers a personalised user experience.
• QnA Maker: Distill information into conversational, easy-to-navigate answers.
• Speech-to-Text: A Speech service feature that accurately converts spoken audio to text.
• Cognitive Service for Language: Add natural language capabilities with a single API call.
• Translator: Easily conduct machine translation with a simple REST API call.
• Health Bot: A managed service purpose-built for development of virtual healthcare assistants.
• Azure Applied AI Services: Specialist services that enable organisations to accelerate time to value in applying AI to solve common scenarios.
• Azure Bot Service: Build conversational AI experiences for your customers.
• Azure Databricks: Design AI with Apache Spark™-based analytics.
• Azure Open Datasets: Cloud platform to host and share curated open datasets to accelerate development of machine learning models.
• Azure Video Indexer: Easily extract meaningful insights from audio and video files using media AI.
• Content moderator: Automated image, text and video moderation.
• Data Science Virtual Machines: Rich pre-configured environment for AI development.
• Azure Form Recogniser: The AI-powered document extraction service that understands your forms.
• Kinect DK: Build computer vision and speech models using a developer kit with advanced AI sensors.
• Microsoft Genomics: Power genome sequencing & research insights.
• Project Bonsai PREVIEW: Create intelligent industrial control systems using simulations.
• Speaker Recognition: A Speech service feature that verifies and identifies speakers.
• Speech translation: Easily integrate real-time speech translation to your app.
• Text to Speech: A Speech service feature that converts text to lifelike speech.
• Azure Metrics Advisor: An AI service that monitors metrics and diagnoses issues.
• Azure Percept PREVIEW: Accelerate edge intelligence from silicon to service.
• Azure OpenAI Service PREVIEW: Apply advanced coding and language models to a variety of use cases.

Analytics

***Gather, store, process, analyze and visualize data of any variety, volume, or velocity

• Azure Analysis Services: Enterprise-grade analytics engine as a service.
• Azure Data Factory: Hybrid data integration at enterprise scale, made easy.
• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1: Hyperscale repository for big data analytics workloads.
• Azure Databricks: Design AI with Apache Spark™-based analytics
• Azure Synapse Analytics: Limitless analytics service with unmatched time to insight.
• Data Lake Analytics: Distributed analytics service that makes big data easy.
• HDInsight: Provision cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters.
• R Server for HDInsight: Predictive analytics, machine learning, and statistical modeling for big data.
• Microsoft Graph Data Connect PREVIEW: A secure, high-throughput connector designed to copy select Microsoft 365 productivity datasets into your Azure tenant.
• Azure Data Explorer: Fast and highly scalable data exploration service.
• Azure Data Lake Storage: Scalable, secure data lake for high-performance analytics.
• Azure Data Share: A simple and safe service for sharing big data with external organizations.
• Azure Stream Analytics: Real-time analytics on fast-moving streaming data.
• Data Catalogue: Get more value from your enterprise data assets.
• Event Hubs: Receive telemetry from millions of devices.
• Power BI Embedded: White label Power BI to quickly and easily provide exceptional customer-facing dashboards and analytics in your own applications.
• Microsoft Purview: Govern, protect, and manage your data estate.
• Azure Chaos Studio PREVIEW: Improve application resilience by introducing faults and simulating outages.

Containers

***Develop and manage your containerized apps faster with integrated tools

• App Configuration: Fast, scalable parameter storage for app configuration.
• Azure Red Hat OpenShift: Fully managed OpenShift service, jointly operated with Red Hat.
• Azure functions: Execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience.
• Container Instances: Easily run containers on Azure without managing servers…
• Container Registry: Store and manage container images across all types of deployments.
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Build and scale with managed Kubernetes.
• Azure Container Apps: Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers.
• Web App for Containers: Easily deploy and run containerized web apps on Windows and Linux.
• Service Fabric: Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows or Linux.

Databases

***Support rapid growth and innovate faster with secure, enterprise-grade and fully managed database services

• Azure Cache for Redis: Accelerate apps with high-throughput, low-latency data caching.
• Azure Data Factory: Hybrid data integration at enterprise scale, made easy.
• Azure Database for MySQL: Fully managed, scalable MySQL database.
• Azure Database Migration Service: Accelerate your data migration to Azure.
• Azure SQL: The family of SQL cloud databases providing flexible options for application migration, modernisation and development.
  • Azure SQL Edge: Small-footprint, edge-optimised SQL database engine with built-in AI.
  • Azure SQL Database: Managed, intelligent SQL database in the cloud.
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance: Managed, always up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud.
• Table Storage: NoSQL key-value store using semi-structured datasets.
• Azure Confidential Ledger: Tamperproof, unstructured data store hosted in trusted execution environments (TEEs) and backed by cryptographically verifiable evidence.
• Azure Cosmos DB: Fast NoSQL database with open APIs for any scale.
• Azure Database for MariaDB: Managed MariaDB database service for app developers.
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL: Fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL.
• SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines: Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud at lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra: Cloud Cassandra with flexibility, control and scale.

Developer Tools

***Build, manage and continuously deliver cloud applications – using any platform or language

• App Configuration: Fast, scalable parameter storage for app configuration.
• Azure DevTest Labs: Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts.
• SDKs: Get the SDKs and command-line tools you need.
• Visual Studio Code: A powerful, lightweight code editor for cloud development.
• Azure DevOps: Services for teams to share code, track work and ship software.
• Azure Pipelines: Continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform and cloud.
• Visual Studio: Powerful and flexible environment to develop apps in the cloud.
• Azure Load Testing PREVIEW: Optimise app performance with high-scale load testing.

DevOps

***Deliver innovation faster with simple, reliable tools for continuous delivery

• Azure Artifacts: Create, host, and share packages with your team.
• Azure Boards: Plan, track, and discuss work across your teams.
• Azure DevOps: Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software.
• Azure DevTest Labs: Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts.
• Azure Monitor: Full observability into your apps, infrastructure, and network.
• Azure Pipelines: Continuously build, test, and deploy to any platform and cloud.
• Azure Repos: Get unlimited, cloud-hosted private Git repos for your project.
• Azure Test Plans: Test and ship confidently with an exploratory test toolkit.
• DevOps tool integrations: Use your favorite DevOps tools with Azure.
• Azure Load Testing PREVIEW: Optimise app performance with high-scale load testing.
• Azure Managed Grafana PREVIEW: Deploy Grafana dashboards as a fully managed Azure service.

Hybrid + multicloud

***Get Azure innovation everywhere—bring the agility and innovation of cloud computing to your on-premises workloads

• Azure Active Directory (Azure AD): Synchronise on-premises directories and enable single sign-on.
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL: Fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL.
• Azure ExpressRoute: edicated private-network fibre connections to Azure.
• Azure Sentinel: Put cloud-native SIEM and intelligent security analytics to work to help protect your enterprise.
• Azure SQL Edge: Small-footprint, edge-optimised SQL database engine with built-in AI.
• Security Center: Unify security management and enable advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads.
• Azure Stack Hub: Azure Stack Hub is sold as an integrated hardware system, with software pre-installed on validated hardware.
• Azure Modular Datacentre: A complete, rugged datacentre solution.
• Azure Arc: Secure, develop, and operate infrastructure, apps, and Azure services anywhere.
• Azure DevOps: Services for teams to share code, track work and ship software.
• Azure IoT Edge: Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to edge devices.
• Azure SQL Database: Managed, intelligent SQL database in the cloud.
• Azure Stack: Build and run innovative hybrid apps across cloud boundaries.
• Azure Stack HCI: Run your production workloads anywhere on hybrid, familiar hyperconverged infrastructure.
• Azure Stack Edge: An Azure managed device that brings the compute, storage, and intelligence of Azure to the edge.

Identity

***Manage user identities and access to protect against advanced threats across devices, data, apps, and infrastructure

• Azure Active Directory (Azure AD): Synchronise on-premises directories and enable single sign-on.
• Azure Information Protection: Better protect your sensitive information—anytime, anywhere.
• Azure Active Directory Domain Services: Join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers.
• Azure Active Directory External Identities: Consumer identity and access management in the cloud.

Integration

***Seamlessly integrate on-premises and cloud-based applications, data and processes across your enterprise

• API Management: Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale.
• Event Grid: Reliable event delivery at a massive scale.
• Service Bus: Connect across private and public cloud environments.
• Azure Health Data Services: Unify and manage health data and protected health information (PHI) in the cloud.
• Logic Apps: Automate the access and use of data across clouds.
• Azure web PubSub: Easily build real-time messaging web applications using WebSockets and the publish-subscribe pattern.

Internet of Things

***Bring IoT to any device and any platform, without changing your infrastructure

• API Management: Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale.
• Azure Digital Twins: Use IoT spatial intelligence to create models of physical environments.
• Azure IoT Edge: Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to edge devices.
• Azure Machine Learning: Use an enterprise-grade service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
• Azure RTOS: Making embedded IoT development and connectivity easy.
• Azure SQL Edge: Small-footprint, edge-optimized SQL database engine with built-in AI.
• Azure Time Series Insights: Visualise IoT data in real-time.
• Kinect DK: Build computer vision and speech models using a developer kit with advanced AI sensors.
• Notification Hubs: Send push notifications to any platform from any back-end.
• Azure Defender for IoT: Unified threat protection for all your IoT/OT devices.
• Windows for IoT: Build intelligent edge solutions with world-class developer tools, long-term support, and enterprise-grade security.
• Azure Cosmos DB: Fast NoSQL database with open APIs for any scale.
• Azure IoT Central: Go from proof of concept to proof of value.
• Azure IoT Hub: Connect, monitor, and manage billions of IoT assets.
• Azure Maps: Add location data and mapping visuals to business applications and solutions.
• Azure Sphere: Create, connect, and maintain secured intelligent IoT devices from the edge to the cloud.
• Azure Stream Analytics: Real-time analytics on fast-moving streaming data.
• Event Grid: Reliable event delivery at a massive scale.
• Logic Apps: Automate the access and use of data across clouds.
• Windows 10 IoT Core Services: Long-term OS support and services to manage device updates and assess device health.
• Azure Percept PREVIEW: Accelerate edge intelligence from silicon to service.
• Azure functions: Execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience.

Management and Governance

Simplify, automate and optimize the management and compliance of your cloud resources

• Automation: Simplify cloud management with process automation.
• Azure Backup: Simplify data protection and protect against ransomware.
• Azure Lighthouse: Empowering service providers to manage customers at scale and with precision.
• Azure Migrate: Simplify migration and modernization with a unified platform.
• Azure Monitor: Full observability into your apps, infrastructure, and network.
• Azure Resource Manager: Simplify how you manage your app resources.
• Azure Service Health: Personalised guidance and support for when issues in Azure services affect you.
• Cloud Shell: Streamline Azure administration with a browser-based shell.
• Microsoft Azure portal: Build, manage, and monitor all Azure products in a single, unified console.
• Traffic Manager: Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability.
• Azure Resource Mover: Simplify how you move multiple resources between Azure regions.
• Azure Chaos Studio PREVIEW: Improve application resilience by introducing faults and simulating outages.
• Update management centre PREVIEW: Centrally manage updates and compliance at scale.
• Azure Advisor: Your personalized Azure best practices recommendation engine.
• Azure Blueprints PREVIEW: Enabling quick, repeatable creation of governed environments.
• Azure Managed Applications: Simplify management of cloud offerings.
• Azure mobile app: Stay connected to your Azure resources—anytime, anywhere.
• Azure Policy: Implement corporate governance and standards at scale.
• Azure Resource Manager templates: Deliver infrastructure as code for all your Azure resources using Resource Manager.
• Azure Site Recovery: Keep your business running with a built-in disaster recovery service.
• Microsoft Cost Management: Monitor, allocate and optimise cloud costs with transparency, accuracy and efficiency using Microsoft Cost Management.
• Network Watcher: Network performance monitoring and diagnostics solution.
• Azure Automanage PREVIEW: Simplify and optimise IT management with automated operations.
• Microsoft Purview: Govern, protect, and manage your data estate.
• Azure Managed Grafana PREVIEW: Deploy Grafana dashboards as a fully managed Azure service.

Media

Deliver high-quality video content anywhere, at any time, and on any device

• Azure Media Player: A single player for all your playback needs.
• Content Protection: Securely deliver content using AES, PlayReady, Widevine, and Fairplay.
• Live and On-Demand Streaming: Deliver content to virtually all devices with the ability to scale.
• Content Delivery Network: Fast, reliable content delivery network with global reach.
• Encoding: Studio-grade encoding at cloud scale.
• Media Services: Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale.

Migration

***Simplify and accelerate your migration to the cloud with guidance, tools, and resources

• Azure Database Migration Service: Accelerate your data migration to Azure.
• Azure Site Recovery: Keep your business running with a built-in disaster recovery service.
• Azure Data Box: Appliances and solutions for data transfer to Azure and edge computing.
• Azure Migrate: Simplify migration and modernization with a unified platform.
• Microsoft Cost Management: Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency using Microsoft Cost Management.

Mixed Reality

***Blend your physical and digital worlds to create immersive, collaborative experiences

• Azure Digital Twins: Use IoT spatial intelligence to create models of physical environments.
• Remote Rendering: Render high-quality, interactive 3D content with real-time streaming.
• Object Anchors PREVIEW: Automatically align and anchor 3D content to objects in the physical world.
• Kinect DK: Build computer vision and speech models using a developer kit with advanced AI sensors.
• Spatial Anchors: Create multi-user, spatially aware mixed reality experiences.

Mobile

***Build and deploy cross-platform and native apps for any mobile device

• API Management: Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale.
• App Service: Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile.
• Azure Maps: Add location data and mapping visuals to business applications and solutions.
• Notification Hubs: Send push notifications to any platform from any back-end.
• Visual Studio App Centre: Build, test, release, and monitor your mobile and desktop apps.
• Azure Communication Services: Build rich communication experiences with the same secure platform capabilities used by Microsoft Teams.
• App Configuration: Fast, scalable parameter storage for app configuration.
• Azure Cognitive Search: Enterprise scale search for app development.
• Azure Cognitive Services: Deploy high-quality AI models as APIs.
• Spatial Anchors: Create multi-user, spatially aware mixed reality experiences.
• Xamarin: Create cloud-powered mobile apps faster.

Networking

***Connect cloud and on-premises infrastructure and services, to provide your customers and users with the best possible experience

• Application Gateway: Build secure, scalable, highly available web front ends in Azure.
• Azure DDoS Protection: Protect your Azure resources from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
• Azure ExpressRoute: Dedicated private-network fiber connections to Azure.
• Load Balancer: Deliver high availability and network performance to your apps.
• Azure Front Door: Modern cloud CDN that delivers optimized experiences to your users anywhere.
• Azure Private Link: Private access to services hosted on the Azure platform, keeping your data on the Microsoft network.
• Network Watcher: Network performance monitoring and diagnostics solution.
• Virtual Network: infrastructure in the cloud.
• VPN Gateway: Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity.
• Azure Orbital PREVIEW: Satellite ground station and scheduling services for fast downlinking of data.
• Azure Network Function Manager: Extend Azure management for deploying 5G and SD-WAN network functions on edge devices.
• Azure Private 5G Core PREVIEW: Rapidly deploy and manage private 5G networks at the enterprise edge.
• Azure Bastion: Fully managed service that helps secure remote access to your virtual machines.
• Azure DNS: Host your Domain Name System (DNS) domain in Azure.
• Azure Firewall: Cloud-native and intelligent network firewall security.
• Azure Firewall Manager: Central network security policy and route management for globally distributed, software-defined perimeters.
• Azure Internet Analyser PREVIEW: Test how networking infrastructure changes will impact your customers’ performance.
• Content Delivery Network: Fast, reliable content delivery network with global reach.
• Traffic Manager: Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability.
• Virtual WAN: Optimise and automate branch-to-branch connectivity through Azure.
• Web Application Firewall: A cloud-native web application firewall (WAF) service that provides powerful protection for web apps.
• Azure Route Server: Enable network appliances to exchange routes dynamically with virtual networks in Azure.
• Azure Virtual Network Manager PREVIEW: Centrally manage virtual networks in Azure from a single pane of glass.
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Security

***Protect your enterprise from advanced threats across hybrid cloud workloads

• App Configuration: Fast, scalable parameter storage for app configuration.
• Azure Active Directory (Azure AD): Synchronise on-premises directories and enable single sign-on.
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Protect your multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Azure DDoS Protection: Protect your Azure resources from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
• Azure Firewall: Cloud-native and intelligent network firewall security.
• Azure Front Door: Modern cloud CDN that delivers optimized experiences to your users anywhere.
• Azure Sentinel: Put cloud-native SIEM and intelligent security analytics to work to help protect your enterprise.
• Security Center: Unify security management and enable advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads.
• Web Application Firewall: A cloud-native web application firewall (WAF) service that provides powerful protection for web apps.
• Microsoft Azure Attestation: A unified solution for remotely verifying the trustworthiness of a platform and the integrity of the binaries running inside it.
• Application Gateway: Build secure, scalable, highly available web front ends in Azure.
• Azure Active Directory Domain Services: Join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers.
• Azure Bastion: Fully managed service that helps secure remote access to your virtual machines.
• Azure Dedicated HSM: Manage hardware security modules that you use in the cloud.
• Azure Firewall Manager: Central network security policy and route management for globally distributed, software-defined perimeters.
• Azure Information Protection: Better protect your sensitive information—anytime, anywhere.
• Key Vault: Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets.
• VPN Gateway: Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity.
• Azure Defender for IoT: Unified threat protection for all your IoT/OT devices.
• Azure Confidential Ledger: Tamperproof, unstructured data store hosted in trusted execution environments (TEEs) and backed by cryptographically verifiable evidence.

Storage

***Get secure, massively scalable cloud storage for your data, apps and workloads

• Archive Storage: Industry-leading price point for storing rarely accessed data.
• Azure Backup: Simplify data protection and protect against ransomware.
• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1: Hyperscale repository for big data analytics workloads.
• Azure Files: Simple, secure and serverless enterprise-grade cloud file shares.
• Azure NetApp Files: Enterprise-grade Azure file shares, powered by NetApp.
• Azure Data Box: Appliances and solutions for data transfer to Azure and edge compute.
• Queue Storage: Effectively scale apps according to traffic.
• Storage Explorer: View and interact with Azure Storage resources.
• Azure Confidential Ledger: Tamperproof, unstructured data store hosted in trusted execution environments (TEEs) and backed by cryptographically verifiable evidence.
• Avere vFXT for Azure: Run high-performance, file-based workloads in the cloud.
• Azure Data Lake Storage: Scalable, secure data lake for high-performance analytics.
• Azure Data Share: A simple and safe service for sharing big data with external organisations.
• Azure HPC Cache: File caching for high-performance computing (HPC).
• Azure Blob Storage: Massively scalable and secure object storage.
• Azure Disk Storage: High-performance, highly durable block storage.
• Storage Accounts: Durable, highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage.
• StorSimple: Lower costs with an enterprise hybrid cloud storage solution.

Web

***Build, deploy and scale powerful web applications quickly and efficiently

• API Management: Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale.
• App Service: Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile.
• Azure Maps: Add location data and mapping visuals to business applications and solutions.
• Content Delivery Network: Fast, reliable content delivery network with global reach.
• Static Web Apps: A modern web app service that offers streamlined full-stack development from source code to global high availability.
• Azure web PubSub: Easily build real-time messaging web applications using WebSockets and the publish-subscribe pattern.
• Web App for Containers: Easily deploy and run containerised web apps on Windows and Linux.
• App Configuration: Fast, scalable parameter storage for app configuration.
• Azure Cognitive Search: Enterprise scale search for app development.
• Azure SignalR Service: Add real-time web functionalities easily.
• Notification Hubs: Send push notifications to any platform from any back-end.
• Azure Communication Services: uild rich communication experiences with the same secure platform capabilities used by Microsoft Teams.
• Azure Fluid Relay PREVIEW: Easily add real-time collaborative experiences to your apps with Fluid Framework.

Windows Virtual Desktop

***The best virtual desktop experience – delivered on Azure

• Azure Lab Services: Set up labs for education, training, and other related scenarios.
• VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure: Provision Windows desktops and apps with VMware and Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Azure Virtual Desktop: Enable a secure, remote desktop experience from anywhere.
• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for Azure: Provision Windows desktops and apps on Azure with Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktop.

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