Why Azure?

Over the first decades of the 2000s, competition has brought the best public clouds close enough both in terms of the products they offer and their prices. While I was writing this book, it was really hard to predict that a single public cloud would prove to be absolutely better than the others and overtake the market.

Clouds provided by Amazon (AWS), Google (GCP), and Microsoft (Azure) are all very good. Even though picking any of these would not be a mistake, this section is about to highlight the strengths of Azure while discussing why Machine Learning Studio is a good product to get yourself started with clouds.

First of all, Azure is provided by Microsoft, which means integration with a lengthy list of other products they ...

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