Microsoft Azure

What is Azure?

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organization meet your business challenges. It is the freedom to build, manage and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favorite tools and frameworks. . The platform hosts a wide range of services like

Deploy infrastructure

Develop apps

Manage data and AI

Secure and manage resources

Azure DevOps

About the Product

Name:   Microsoft Azure

CEO:   Satya Nadella

Established:   2010 Feb 1

Mission:  To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more

and help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential

Azure Cloud providers offer their services according to different models, of which the three standard models per NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology) are:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Why Azure?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities

Security Offering

Scalability and Ductility

Unmatched Hybrid Capabilities

Integrated Environment with Other Microsoft Tools

Analytics and Intelligence capabilities

Easy learning curve

Cost-Efficient Platform

Interoperability

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Azure Infrastructure as a service

  Deploy Infrastructure

Linux Virtual Machines

Azure Linux Virtual Machines provides on-demand, high-scale,

secure, virtualized infrastructure using Red Hat, Ubuntu, 

or the Linux distribution.

Windows Virtual machines

Azure Windows Virtual Machines provides on-demand, high-scale, secure, virtualized infrastructure using Windows Server.

Container Instances

Azure Container Instances offers the fastest and simplest way to run a container

in Azure, without having to provision any virtual machines and without having

to adopt a higher-level service.

Kubernetes Services

Virtual Machine scale sets

Virtual machine scale sets are an Azure Stack compute resource. With all virtual machines configured in the same way, scale sets do not require the pre-provisioning of virtual machines. It's easier to build large-scale services that target big compute, big data, and containerized workloads.

Azure Platform as a service

   Azure Cloud Apps

Web Apps 

Mobile Apps 

API Apps 

Logic Apps 

Azure Software as a service

Azure Cloud Softwares

Office 365

Visual studio 

Application Insights

Azure Virtual Network

Azure Virtual Network enables many types of Azure resources, such as  Azure Virtual Machines (VM), to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks. 

Azure Virtual Network provides the following key capabilities:

Isolation and segmentation

Communicate with the internet

Communicate between Azure resources

Communicate with on-premises resources

Filter network traffic

Route network traffic

Connect virtual networks

Relevant Blogs:

Microsoft Azure IaaS  

Cloud Security Linux Containers (LXC) 

What is Private cloud? 

Ansible Modules