Microsoft Azure is a computing platform that was developed by Microsoft and it offers cloud computing services for testing, managing application, and deploying services using Microsoft global network.
Microsoft Azure is very flexible, open cloud computing platform..
Microsoft Azure offers wide range of services that include Saas ( software as a service), (PaaS) which means platform as a service and lastly LaaS which is (infrastructure as a service) .
Also, this cloud computing platform can be able to support various programming languages, frameworks and tools such as Microsoft specific systems and software or even Microsoft third party systems and software.
Some of major services that Microsoft Azure offers include:
Management
As a result of Microsoft Azure automation, users can be able to automate long running, manual, error prone tasks that are performed in cloud and enterprises environments. This process help in time saving and also highly increases reliability and efficiency of day to day administrative regular tasks.
Storage services.
Microsoft Azure offers cloud data storage services such as SDK and REST APIs for accessing and storing data on cloud.
Microsoft Azure has highly developed program that store collection of structured text.
Also it has a blob service that enhances asses and cloud storage of binary data and unstructured text.
File storage in Microsoft Azure allows assess and storage of cloud data .File Service allows storing and access of data on the cloud using REST APIs.
Data management.
Microsoft Azure has a database software that uses Microsoft SQL technology that scale, create and applications extensions on cloud.
SQL database warehouse can handle data and computational intensive queries.
Design.
Microsoft Azure has a highly specialized and developed operating system. This operating system manages storage and computing resources that runs Microsoft Azure.
Development model.Microsoft Azure has two cloud resources models. This models are classic deployment model which is managed individually. The other on is Azure resource model which help the user in creation of groups of related services.