Azure

The Azure is cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and created the future. Build, run and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your choice.

Why Azure?

• Cost Efficient Platform - “Microsoft’s pay-as-you-go model allows you to pay for what you use to build or expand resources using Azure services”
• Trust your cloud - Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and start-up’s.
• Operate hybrid seamlessly - On-premises, across multiple clouds, and at the edge—we’ll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with tools and services designed for hybrid cloud.
• Build on your terms - You have choices. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to.
• Be future-ready - Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow as “Invent with a comprehensive cloud platform”, “Transform your business with AI”, “Get instant and continuous insights from your data”.

Products

• Compute - “Azure compute provides the infrastructure you need to run your apps. Containerize your applications, deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs), and take advantage of flexible options for migrating VMs to Azure. With comprehensive support for hybrid environments, deploy how and where you want to. Azure compute also includes a full-fledged identity solution, so you gain managed end-point protection, and Active Directory support that helps secure access to on-premises and cloud apps”
• Logic App - “Logic apps make it very easy for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards to operate in collaboration with trading partners through their B2B functionalities. Logic apps can also virtually connect devices, data, and apps across different locations”
• Azure Functions - “Developers use Azure Functions to connect to data sources or messaging solutions and react to events. The best part about Azure Function is its compute-on-demand capacity which means that you only pay for the services when you consume the resources. Azure Functions, a serverless compute service, enables enterprises to run event-triggered codes without having an infrastructure for its provision.

Azure Function is greatly reliable and is used in production settings. It can be used to achieve decoupling, high throughput, shared, and reusability.”

• DevOps - “By adopting a DevOps culture along with DevOps practices and tools, teams gain the ability to better respond to customer needs, increase confidence in the applications they build and achieve your business goals faster. DevOps improvs collaboration and productivity is also integral to achieving business goals like Accelerating time to market, Adapting to the market and competition, Maintaining system stability and reliability and Improving the mean time to recovery”
• IoT - “Drive transformation and achieve desired business outcomes by building intelligent environments that allow you to connect, monitor, automate, and model devices and applications. Organize your devices and applications in a single view, easily add features in real time, automate updates, and monitor and troubleshoot device functionality”
• App Service - “Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs on your terms. Support for virtual networks, and ability to run in an isolated and dedicated Environment. Rigorous security and compliance standards, including SOC and PCI, for seamless deployments in the cloud, in Azure Government, and on premises”
• Azure Storage - “Get cloud storage which provides a set of highly scalable, secure, performant and cost-effective foundation to run all your business applications. Azure Blob Storage helps you create data lakes for your analytics needs and provides storage to build powerful cloud-native and mobile apps. Optimise costs with tiered storage for your long-term data and flexibly scale up for high-performance computing and machine learning workloads”
• Web - “Build, deploy, and scale powerful web applications quickly and efficiently. Azure App Service Web Apps are necessary for hosting a standard ASP.NET web application. They are very easy to setup and provide you with lots of benefits out-of-the-box. There is no need to worry about load balancing and downtime due to Built-in auto-scale. The ease of the application enables the users to quickly create and deploy mission critical web apps at scale.”
• Azure AI and ML learning - “Empower data scientists and developers to build, deploy and manage high-quality models faster and with confidence. Accelerate time to value with industry-leading MLOps (machine learning operations), open-source interoperability and integrated tools. Innovate on a secure, trusted platform designed for responsible machine learning (ML)”
• Security - “Take advantage of its wide array of security tools and capabilities. These tools and capabilities help make it possible to create secure solutions on the secure Azure platform. Microsoft Azure provides confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer data, while also enabling transparent accountability.”
• Azure Database Services - “A fully managed relational, NoSQL and in-memory databases, spanning proprietary and open-source engines, to fit the needs of modern app developers. Infrastructure management—including scalability, availability, and security—is automated, saving you time and money. Focus on building applications while Azure managed databases make your job simpler by surfacing performance insights through embedded intelligence, scaling without limits, and managing security threats.”
• Management and Governance - “Governance management encourages efficient use of resources and accountability for the stewardship over those resources. One of the key components of governance management is to align the interests of individuals, the organization, and society. Governance management encompasses setting goals and objectives, determining ethical standards, establishing the intended culture, ensuring compliance, and designing and implementing the governance framework.”