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Microsoft Azure

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Microsoft is a tech company that has became influential in the computer age via software like Windows, a family of operating systems developed by Microsoft. Today I will explain what Microsoft Azure is and why it is used.

Azure?

Microsoft Azure or just Azure, is a cloud platform used for assisting you in building, deploying, and managing 'innovative solutions'. What does that mean? Before Microsoft switched over to cloud computing, they primarily used 'on-premise' data centers which are in house data centers that are maintained by a company privately. Cloud computing can be defined as the delivery of different computing services and Azure is a public cloud computing platform that can be used by you or other companies.

Azure gives businesses access to a network of data centers maintained by Microsoft; meaning it is a public cloud so all hardware, software, and supporting infrastructure is owned by Microsoft (the cloud provider). Businesses utilizing Azure can reduce the time and expense associated with maintaining on-premise data centers infrastructure, helping to optimize IT costs and much more.

Azure comes with more than 200 products and services across a global network of data centers and has over 400 secure data centers in over 70 regions, meaning it is a very large cloud provider. Some services include analytics, storage, databases and networking over the internet, “the cloud”, offering faster innovation and cost-effective scalability. So, there is no need for purchasing, managing, and maintaining a local server, Azure lets you host your application in the cloud.

Cloud Services

Azure offers four different forms of cloud computing; Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): renting servers, networking, storage and more on a pay as you go basis. Platform as a Service (PaaS): build and deploy applications without managing infrastructure; using Microsofts environment for developing applications. Software as a Service (SaaS): consume Microsoft’s cloud apps like Office 365. And finally sever-less computing which is focused on application functionality allowing the cloud provider to handle set up and service management.

Why use?

Using Azure as a cloud platform can be beneficial and multiple ways; Azure offers benefits like saving money; this is because Azure can eliminate the money needed to run on site data centers. Azure offers speed and scalability meaning resources are delivered at the right moment when businesses need them. Productivity and performance are other benefits of Azure allowing for the biggest cloud computing services in the world to use Azure knowing that it is up to the most latest generation. Lastly, and most importantly, Azure offers reliability as well as security being flexible enough to back up data in almost every language and utilizing advanced site recovery.

There are many different types of cloud services like this but today around 95% of Fortune 500 companies trust Azure to help them run their businesses with around 350,000 businesses using Azure for their computing needs. Azure currently helps businesses scale and make money by optimizing their operation, managing their environments and providing scalability and accelerated developer productivity.

Application development is streamlined with tools like GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure DevOps which is a suite of tools also designed by Microsoft, to help software development and the delivery process. Right now Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform are the top cloud service providers; Azure stands out by offering Hybrid cloud services and stands to be a versatile, secure, and scalable cloud platform for you to use to help build, deploy, and manage different applications and services.

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