Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services. Developers and IT professionals use it to build, deploy and manage applications through our global network of data centers. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Azure also supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. With Azure, you get the freedom to build and deploy anywhere, using the tools, applications, and frameworks of your choice.
Azure uses large-scale virtualization at Microsoft data centers worldwide and it offers more than 600 services. It uses a specialized operating system to run its “fabric layer”. The fabric layer is a cluster hosted at Microsoft’s data centers that manage computing and storage resources of the computers.
The Azure cloud platform has more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life. It helps to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge.
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