What is Azure Arc?

Azure Arc helps you govern and manage your IT estate across multiple cloud providers and your on-prem infrastructure.

Currently, Azure Arc allows you to manage the following resource types hosted outside of Azure:

• Servers: Manage Windows and Linux physical servers and virtual machines hosted outside of Azure.

• Kubernetes clusters: Attach and configure Kubernetes clusters running anywhere, with multiple supported distributions.

• Azure data services: Run Azure data services on-premises, at the edge, and in public clouds using Kubernetes and the infrastructure of your choice. SQL Managed Instance and PostgreSQL (preview) services are currently available.

• SQL Server: Extend Azure services to SQL Server instances hosted outside of Azure.

• Virtual machines (preview): Provision, resize, delete and manage virtual machines based on VMware vSphere or Azure Stack HCI and enable VM self-service through role-based access.

See here for more info: [Azure Arc

Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-arc/)

Next we shall be deploying Arc and managing some AWS resources.