Microsoft has three public cloud-based services offerings. Key components in the backend of Microsoft-based IoT solutions reside in the Azure cloud. Azure provides a platform for development and deployment of highly customized IoT solutions and for deployment of IoT applications and solutions developed by Microsoft’s partners. Thus, there are examples of IoT implementations deployed in Azure using IaaS components, PaaS components, and SaaS components.
The other two Microsoft cloud-based services are Office 365 (also included in Microsoft 365) and Dynamics 365. Office ...
