Microsoft Azure: Planning, Deploying, and Managing the Cloud

© Julian Soh, Marshall Copeland, Anthony Puca, and Micheleen Harris 2020

J. Soh et al.Microsoft Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5958-0_2

2. Overview of Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Services

Julian Soh¹  , Marshall Copeland², Anthony Puca³ and Micheleen Harris¹

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Washington, WA, USA

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Texas, TX, USA

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Colorado, CO, USA

 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a division of the US Department of Commerce, defines cloud computing as “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that are rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” ...