Azure Logic Apps
Azure Logic Apps is Microsoft's managed cloud service for designing and running automated workflows that integrate applications, services, data, and events.
Microsoft Azure in Action
Azure Logic Apps is a managed Azure service for designing and running workflows that integrate applications, data, and services through triggers and operations.
- How it is used
- Coordinates event-driven data handoffs between Azure and third-party services, including collecting emailed images for Blob Storage.
- How deep it goes
- Works through portal creation, connector configuration, field mapping, and testing; leaves Standard hosting variants largely unexplored.
- Examples
- Uses an Outlook attachment-to-blob workflow and a blob-content-to-X posting workflow.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch in the Azure portal, then test a run and verify its output in Blob Storage.
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Azure Security
Azure Logic Apps is an Azure service for designing and running automated workflows that integrate applications, services, and data sources.
- How it is used
- Automates Defender for Cloud responses to security alerts, recommendations, and regulatory compliance conditions.
- How deep it goes
- Covers low-code workflow integration and portal configuration, without detailing individual workflow implementation internals.
- Examples
- Demonstrates blocking IP addresses after suspected SSH brute-force attacks against virtual machines.
- What you can do after
- Operate Defender for Cloud workflow automation to trigger customizable Logic App responses to detected threats.
Related concepts
- playbookused by · A playbook is a structured set of instructions or procedures for carrying out a type of work or responding to a class of situations.
- Azure Blob Storageuses · Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft Azure’s managed cloud object-storage service for storing and accessing unstructured data as blobs.
- automationused by · Automation is the execution of tasks or processes by machines or software with reduced direct human intervention.
- workflowkind of · A workflow is an organized sequence of coordinated activities, tasks, or decisions through which work progresses toward an outcome.
- soarused by · SOAR, or Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response, is a security technology that coordinates and automates workflows across multiple security systems.
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