Azure

Azure is a cloud platform from Microsoft. It can host both Linux and Microsoft virtual machines. While AWS is the service people often default to, at least in the Linux space, it never hurts to explore the options. Azure is one such option that is gaining market share at the moment.

Creating a virtual machine on Azure for evaluation purposes is comparable to creating a virtual machine on AWS. The process is fairly smooth.

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