Let’s examine Azure with respect to our definition of microservices:
Azure Services are isolated and autonomous: Yes
Azure Services are configurable: Yes
Azure Services provide elastic scale: Yes
Azure Services are programmable through secure endpoints: Yes
Azure Services are automatable through a ReST API such that the creation, management, monitoring, and teardown is controlled completely through software: Yes
Azure Services are composable in that they can be combined in uncountable ways to formulate solutions that address business and technical goals: Yes
Azure’s finished services such as SQL Database, ...
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