Microsoft Azure – A Brief Introduction Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure and platform designed to build, deploy and manage different applications and services through a giant network of data centres managed by Microsoft. It was launched in February 1st, 2010 as Windows Azure which was later renamed to Microsoft Azure on 25th March 2014. Apart from providing services like SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, it supports many other programming languages, frameworks and tools which could include third-party systems as well. Deployment Models of Microsoft Azure Azure offers two deployment models for cloud resources: Classic Deployment Model – Here each resource of Microsoft Azure was managed individually. The resources could be SQL Database, virtual machine, etc. Azure Resource Manager – Here the users can create different groups for related utilities in order to deploy, manage and monitor the closely coupled resources. Services offered with Microsoft Azure Fea...
