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Managing Azure
In this chapter, we cover the following recipes:
- Getting started using Azure with PowerShell
- Creating Azure resources
- Exploring the Azure storage account
- Creating an Azure SMB file share
- Creating an Azure website
- Creating an Azure Virtual Machine
Introduction
Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform and is a competitor to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public cloud providers. Azure provides you with access to a vast and constantly growing range of features. It enables any organization to move some of, most of, or even their entire on-premises infrastructure into the cloud.
Azure features come in three levels:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
IaaS is, ...
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