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What is Microsoft Azure?

Azure is a cloud computing platform and an online portal that allows you to
access and manage cloud services and resources provided by Microsoft. These
services and resources include storing your data and transforming it, depending
on your requirements. To get access to these resources and services, all you
need to have is an active internet connection and the ability to connect to the
Azure portal.
Things that you should know about Azure:
• It was launched on February 1, 2010, significantly later than its main
competitor, AWS.
• It’s free to start and follows a pay-per-use model, which means you pay
only for the services you opt for.
• Interestingly, 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies use Azure services
for their cloud computing needs.
• Azure supports multiple programming languages, including Java, Node
Js, and C#.
• Another benefit of Azure is the number of data centers it has around the
world. There are 42 Azure data centers spread around the globe, which is
the highest number of data centers for any cloud platform. Also, Azure is
planning to get 12 more data centers, which will increase the number of
data centers to 54, shortly.

What are the Various Azure Services and How does Azure Work?
Azure provides more than 200 services, are divided into 18 categories. These
categories include computing, networking, storage, IoT, migration, mobile,
analytics, containers, artificial intelligence, and other machine learning,
integration, management tools, developer tools, security, databases, DevOps,
media identity, and web services. Let’s take a look at some of the major Azure
services by category:

Compute Services
• Virtual Machine
This service enables you to create a virtual machine in Windows, Linux or
any other configuration in seconds.
• Cloud Service
This service lets you create scalable applications within the cloud. Once
the application is deployed, everything, including provisioning, load
balancing, and health monitoring, is taken care of by Azure.
• Service Fabric
With service fabric, the process of developing a microservice is
immensely simplified. Microservice is an application that contains other
bundled smaller applications.
• Functions
With functions, you can create applications in any programming
language. The best part about this service is that you need not worry about
hardware requirements while developing applications because Azure
takes care of that. All you need to do is provide the code.

Networking
• Azure CDN
Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) is for delivering content to
users. It uses a high bandwidth, and content can be transferred to any
person around the globe. The CDN service uses a network of servers
placed strategically around the globe so that the users can access the data
as soon as possible.
• Express Route
This service lets you connect your on-premise network to the Microsoft
cloud or any other services that you want, through a private connection.
So, the only communications that will happen here will be between the
enterprise network and the service that you want.
• Virtual network
The virtual network allows you to have any of the Azure services
communicate with one another privately and securely.
• Azure DNS
This service allows you to host your DNS domains or system domains on
Azure.
Storage
• Disk Storage
This service allows you to choose from either HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or
SSD (Solid State Drive) as your storage option along with your virtual
machine.
• Blob Storage
This service is optimized to store a massive amount of unstructured data,
including text and even binary data.
• File Storage
This is a managed file storage service that can be accessed via industry
SMB (server message block) protocol.
• Queue Storage
With queue storage, you can provide stable message queuing for a large
workload. This service can be accessed from anywhere in this world.

Why Use Azure?


Now that you know more about Azure and the services it provides, you might
be interested in exploring the various uses of Azure.
• Application development: You can create any web application in Azure.
• Testing: After developing an application successfully on the platform, you
can test it.
• Application hosting: Once the testing is done, Azure can help you host the
application.
• Create virtual machines: You can create virtual machines in any
configuration you want with the help of Azure.
• Integrate and sync features: Azure lets you integrate and sync virtual
devices and directories.
• Collect and store metrics: Azure lets you collect and store metrics, which
can help you find what works.
• Virtual hard drives: These are extensions of the virtual machines; they
provide a huge amount of data storage.
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