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Introduction to Microsoft Azure and Its Basic Terminologies
Learn about Microsoft Azure and its basic terminologies to get familiar with Azure services.
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Introduction to Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft describes Azure in the following words:
Azure is a continually expanding set of cloud services that help your organization meet your current and future business challenges. Azure gives you the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive global network using your favorite tools and frameworks.
As we discussed, cloud services fall under three main categories:
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Platform as a Service
- Software as a Service
Microsoft’s public cloud computing platform Azure is widely considered both a PaaS and an IaaS offering. As of 2020, Microsoft Azure has 22 categories of cloud services including AI and machine learning, blockchain, networking, containers, analytics, security, storage, databases management, and more. Some organizations use Azure for data backup and disaster recovery or even as an alternative to their own data center ...