Microsoft Azure – Cloud Infrastructure
Introduction to cloud computing
Cloud computing is when you access computing services—like servers, storage, networking, software—over the internet (“the cloud”) from a provider like Microsoft Azure. For example, instead of storing personal documents and photos on your personal computer’s hard drive, most people now store them online: that’s cloud computing.
Cloud computing platforms, like Microsoft Azure, tend to be less expensive and more secure, reliable, and flexible than on-premises servers. With the cloud, equipment downtime due to maintenance, theft, or damage is almost non-existent. You can scale your compute and storage resources—up or down—almost instantly when your needs change on Microsoft Azure. Also, you typically pay only for the services you use, which provides a level of convenience and cost-control that’s almost impossible to achieve with on-site infrastructure.
What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud computing services to help your organization meet its business challenges. Microsoft Azure gives you the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your preferred tools and frameworks. With Microsoft Azure, you can:
Be future-ready with Microsoft Azure
Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today—and your product visions for tomorrow. Build on the latest advancements in the cloud, including more than 1,000 new capabilities released in the last year.
Operate hybrid seamlessly
On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge—Microsoft Azure meets 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 Microsfot Azure’s commitment to open source and support for all languages and frameworks, you’re free to build how you want and deploy where you want.
Trust your cloud
Get security from the ground up—backed by a team of experts and proactive, industry-leading compliance that’s trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups.
It is secure
Security is a given in the cloud industry, but Microsoft Azure’s proactive approach to security, compliance, and privacy is unique. Microsoft leads the industry in establishing and consistently meeting clear security and privacy requirements.
Azure is global
With datacenters in more regions than any other cloud provider, Microsoft Azure provides a global reach with local presence that many businesses and organizations need, allowing them to reduce the cost, the time, and the complexity of operating a global infrastructure while meeting local data residency needs.
It is the future
Simultaneously, the cloud is evolving from being the integration of on-premises datacenters with the public cloud, to becoming units of computing that are accessible even in the world’s most remote destinations.
By bringing these two new realities together—and with artificial intelligence running across all systems—we have entered the era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge.
The intelligent edge is a continually expanding set of connected systems and devices that gather and analyze data—close to your users, the data, or both. Users get real-time insights and experiences, delivered by highly responsive and contextually aware apps.