The Azure cloud platform consists of more than 100 products and services that bring innovative ideas to life—to solve today’s issues and create the future. Build, execute, and manage apps across various clouds, on-premises, and at the edge using your preferred tools and frameworks.
Microsoft Azure:
Azure is an online portal allowing you to access and manage Microsoft’s cloud services and resources. These services and tools include storing and converting your data according to your needs. All you need to access these resources and services is an active internet connection and the ability to log on to the Azure portal.
Azure should be known for the following:
• It was released on February 1, 2010, much later than its primary competition, AWS.
• It’s free to start and operates on a pay-per-use approach, which means you only pay for the services you utilize.
• Surprisingly, 80 percent of Fortune 500 organizations employ Azure services for cloud computing.
• Java, Node Js, and C# are the programming languages Azure supports.
• Another advantage of Azure is its global network of data centers. 42 Azure data centers are located worldwide, making it the cloud platform with the most data centers. In addition, Azure plans to add 12 more data centers, bringing the total number of data centers to 54 shortly.
What are the Different Azure Services, and How Does Azure Work?
Azure offers over 200 services organized into 18 categories. These include computing, networking, storage, IoT, migration, mobile, analytics, containers, artificial intelligence, machine learning, integration, management tools, developer tools, security, databases, DevOps, media identification, and web services.
Some of the essential Azure services by category are:
Computer Services:
The term compute here refers to the computing resource hosting model on which our program operates. Azure compute services are roughly classified into three types.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Ineffective services
The Azure virtual machine is the essential building block. We can deploy multiple services, such as Windows and Linux, within the Azure cloud using Azure virtual machines. When we implement a virtual machine, each virtual machine will have its operating system and data disc.
Virtual Machine:
This service lets you quickly establish a virtual computer in Windows, Linux, or any other configuration.
Cloud Computing:
This service allows you to build scalable cloud apps. Azure handles everything after the application is deployed, including provisioning, load balancing, and health monitoring.
Service Fabric:
Service fabric dramatically simplifies the process of establishing a microservice. A
microservice is a programmer that incorporates additional smaller apps that are packaged together.
Azure for disaster recovery and backup:
Certain businesses use Azure for data backup and disaster recovery. Azure may also be used as a substitute for a company’s data center.
Many businesses operate most of their business apps in Azure than investing in local servers and storage.
Microsoft has Azure data centers placed all around the world to assure availability. Microsoft Azure services are offered in 55 regions and 140 countries as of January 2020. Regrettably, not all services are accessible in every location. As a result, Azure customers must ensure that their workloads and data storage locations adhere to applicable compliance standards or other regulations.
Resource:
https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/azure-tutorial/what-is-azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/resources/cloud-computing-dictionary/what-is-azure/?&ef_id=Cj0KCQjwuaiXBhCCARIsAKZLt3muuRvCcUJ_BuC9V6CesTnwDBHdWupsO7kzUzuj6qekSfPC2S54gpoaAqXKEALw_wcB:G:s&OCID=AIDcmmf1elj9v5_SEM_Cj0KCQjwuaiXBhCCARIsAKZLt3muuRvCcUJ_BuC9V6CesTnwDBHdWupsO7kzUzuj6qekSfPC2S54gpoaAqXKEALw_wcB:G:s&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuaiXBhCCARIsAKZLt3muuRvCcUJ_BuC9V6CesTnwDBHdWupsO7kzUzuj6qekSfPC2S54gpoaAqXKEALw_wcB
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