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_3

3. Overview of Azure Platform as a Service

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

 

In this chapter, we provide a high-level view of the major services that are globally available, as well as elements of the Microsoft Azure platform as a service (PaaS). First, we discuss Azure Web Apps, support for developer frameworks, and apps that can run in containers. Next, you gain insight into database services and individual options for support. Then, we dive into Azure DNS as a powerful global service to support name resolution ...