As a cost-effective way to build, deploy and maintain their technology, businesses are shifting to the cloud. Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform; it provides a variety of cloud services, as well as reason, analytics, storage, and networking platform and competitive advantages.
There is 200+ services provided by Azure. Azure helps to manage your company applications as well as large-scale computing processes. AZURE also provides a public cloud architecture that is helpful in IaaS and supports many other programming languages, frameworks, and tools that could include third-party systems.
You have a dedicated online portal for convenient and easy access to Microsoft Azure cloud-hosted services and resources.
Features
Azure apart from its IaaS, SaaS services has offered dozens of cloud features:
Data Resiliency
Data Security
Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery Integration
Single-Pane Operations
Enterprise Applications
Azure cloud and services
VM and Application hosting services
Azure Batch
Azure SQL Database
Azure RemoteApp
Pay as you go
Payment plans such as pay as you go, Azure is maintaining cost effectiveness measures that makes sure that businesses don't overdo their IT budgets and could purchase only what they need.
Size on demand
It becomes quite hard to know when business require extra resources and how it will impact your business. With Azure get a full-fledged suit of applications that never runs off the server capacity and goes along with business.
Open Cloud system
Get an easy and productive experience with Azure that has become a part of global chain at present. Data is shared all around the world on various cloud systems that makes Azure users have the power to access any data in real time.
Data security and disaster recovery
Your data is secured with the most advanced security features provided by Microsoft. From advancements in service's like Threat Intelligence, Threat Analytics etc Azure ensures the security of data along with keeping a backup of the same that comes useful at the times of any incident.
Internet of things – IOT
Now a days IOT is going hand in hand with businesses by innovating the technology that is needed in real time. Azure is integrating IOT with cloud platform to create a potential customer reach and build a good communication experience.
High Availability and Hybrid Capability
Azure helps to build hybrid environment and applications that makes it unique. You can leverage your resources and get broader range of hybrid connections without paying more than the normal costs.