Most of the cloud service providers have similar subscription models but have some unique features. We are going to concentrate on Microsoft Azure as this is the cloud service we are going to cover in this book. From now on, all features we are going to discuss are going to be Azure-specific.
For Microsoft Azure subscription, the highest level of administration is that of a tenant. Azure is a public cloud with data centers all over the world that are available to everyone. There are a few exceptions such as the US government's data center that is available only to US government institutions, the Chinese government's data center for Chinese official institutions, or the German data center only available ...
