Introduction to Azure

Azure is the Microsoft technology created to build and provide cloud-computing systems and applications. Hosted in the Microsoft datacenters, these applications will give end users about 99.9% uptime, and the customer won’t need to invest in any infrastructure or IT services for their environment.

The concept of cloud computing invites companies to alter their perspective with regard to procuring expensive on-premises equipment and hard-to-manage support and consider moving to a service-oriented service, software as a service (SaaS), where they pay for the time and resources consumed (similar to what we currently do for electricity or phone services).

Azure is the set of tools and application programming interfaces (APIs) ...

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