what is sku in azure

Question

I have been given the option of choosing from a top of SKU options while requesting an increase in quota. What are these?

Answer 1

SKU is short for 'Stock-keeping-Unit'.

It basically stands for an item which is on sale, in lamen language. 

In terms of the Microsoft Azure cloud, they basically signify a purchasable SKU under a product. It has a bunch of different shapes of the product. 

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Answer 2

SKU stands for “Stock-Keeping Unit” in Azure Cloud. In azure cloud, we have different SKU available in Azure to facilitate the users according to their needs and workloads. This gives the businesses the advantage to be flexible to deploy and manage the resource more efficiently. 

For example, if you are trying to create a resource for the same there could be different SKUs holding different resources like CPU, RAM, storage etc.