CHAPTER 2

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Overview of Microsoft Azure Services

Microsoft Azure Services

As you saw in Chapter 1, Microsoft Azure represents computing capabilities. What does that mean? That Azure strives to be the foundation of modern computing and continues to evolve. The services presented are a snapshot in time, and you should expect new services to be introduced at an accelerated pace.

This evolution is currently manifested by monthly releases of new capabilities. As of this writing, Azure addresses 25 categories of services.

This chapter goes through all these services at an introductory level. Furthermore, by working your way through this chapter, you will ...

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