what is azure

 Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that offers more than 200 products and services globally over the internet. Microsoft Azure Services include Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, and Platform as a Service in the form of storage, networking, virtual machines, servers, etc. It is a fully managed cloud computing platform that maintains the hardware, infrastructure, and resources with the pay-as-you-go payment method.

Why use Azure?

Now that we know what is Azure? Let’s find the reason why do we need it.

• Application development: You can develop any web application in Azure using the language of your choice.
• Testing: It also allows you to test the application after development.
• Application hosting: You can also host the applications using Azure.
• Create virtual machines: You can launch many virtual machines with any configuration as per your requirement.
• Integrate and sync features: You can integrate and sync virtual devices and directories.
• Collect and store metrics: You can also collect and store metrics to analyze how can your work improve.
• Virtual hard drives: Azure offers both SSD (Solid State Drive) and HDD (Hard Disk) with massive storage.

Services offered by Microsoft Azure

Although there are more than 200 services offered by Azure. But I am listing down the most popular and frequently used services.

Compute Services

• Virtual Machine – Using this service, you can launch virtual machines in Windows and Linux with just a few clicks.
• Cloud Service – You can create scalable applications within the cloud. When you deploy an application, its provisioning, health monitoring is managed by Azure itself.
• Service Fabric – This service simplifies the process of developing Microservice. If we talk about Microservice, it is an application that includes other bundled applications.
• Functions – You can develop applications using any type of programming language without worrying about the hardware requirement.