What is Azure?

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud offering, which comes in private, on-premise (Azure Stack), government, and public versions (refer to this link for further details https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-is-a-private-cloud/). It was announced on October 2008, released on February 2010, and is the next evolution of virtualization. The magic of Azure is built on top of a technology called Service Fabric and Fabric controllers; it works as a distributed application system that handles the allocation of servers or services, monitors the health of these, and heals them as needed. Each Fabric Controller orchestrates all the resources needed within the Azure platform. All the network resources and servers have been abstracted out ...

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