What Is Azure?
What is Azure? According to Microsoft’s own web site, “Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web—for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money.”
That’s not a bad definition, but it’s a little wordy. For web app developers, I’d say that Azure is a cloud-based, compute-on-demand platform and set of services that has everything you need to build reliable and scalable web applications. It can support anywhere from a handful to millions of users. Microsoft has been using Azure to ...
