What does Azure Defender provide for workload protection?
- Load balancing for cloud applications
- Virtual machine scaling capabilities
- DNS management services
- Threat detection and response for compute, storage, databases, and other Azure workloads ✓
Correct answer: Threat detection and response for compute, storage, databases, and other Azure workloads
Option D is correct because Azure Defender (now part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud) provides advanced threat protection across a wide range of Azure workloads including virtual machines, containers, databases, storage, and key vaults, detecting anomalous activity and providing alerts and guided remediation. Option A is wrong because load balancing is provided by Azure Load Balancer and Azure Application Gateway, not Azure Defender. Option B is wrong because virtual machine scaling is the role of Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets or Azure Autoscale. Option C is wrong because DNS management is handled by Azure DNS, a separate service with no threat-detection function.
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