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Microsoft Azure: A Comprehensive Guide

Azure is one of the popular public cloud computing models by Microsoft.  It provides a variety of cloud services which includes general functions such as computing, analytics, storage, and networking.  Like any other public cloud applications, users can pick from any of these services to run existing applications, or develop and scale new applications in the platform. Azure is ‘ever-expanding’  set of cloud services widely considered both as a PaaS(Platform as a service) and IaaS(Infrastructure and a service). 

Azure is a fast, secure, cost-effective and comprehensive cloud platform that facilitates solutions based on individual challenges and requirements. Azure provides the freedom to create and deploy anywhere you want, using the tools, applications, and frameworks of any kind. Azure adopts the ‘pay as you go’ mode of payment scheme which makes it a promising alternative for businesses transitioning from on-site servers to the cloud. It is also cost effective because of the lesser upfront costs and appreciable time delay in resource provisioning. Azure’s scalability and ease of transition are some of the other factors that make Azure matter among the rest of its competition. Azure autoscale dynamically autoscale applications according to the demands and requirements. Self-triggered autoscaling capability of Azure prevents unwanted downtimes and alerts the user if anything goes wrong. 

Quick Facts about Microsoft Azure

Flexible: Resource scaling can be done anytime. 

Compatible: Goes along with all frameworks,  OS, language, and tools.

Reliable: 99.95% availability SLA.

Availability: Geo-synchronous data centers.

Cost: Pay as you go model.

Storage, virtual machine, CDN, and Windows-related services, are not the only services or products offered by Azure. It also offers a broad variety of other services.

Azure IoT Suite: Use templates to create fully customizable solutions for the common Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios—Bring your business together in insightful new ways

HDInsight:  Effortlessly process massive amounts of data and get all the benefits of the broad open source ecosystem with the global scale of Azure. Easily run popular open source frameworks—including Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka. 

Azure Cache for Redis: Fully managed, open source–compatible in-memory data store to power fast, scalable applications

Azure Cosmos DB: Globally distributed, multi-model database service for any scale

Azure Media Services: Azure Media Services makes it easy to use high-definition video encoding and streaming services to reach your audiences on today’s most popular devices. Azure Media Services also enables you to extract richer metadata though video AI, improve accessibility, distribution, and scalability —all while protecting your content.

Azure Stack platform is a product of Microsoft incoordination with Lenovo, Dell EMC, HP Enterprise, Cisco, and Huawei. Microsoft Azure Stack is an extension of Azure that brings the privilege of cloud computing to build and deploy hybrid applications anywhere. The hardware certified by The Azure stack allows businesses to run applications from the cloud while gripping data hosted on-premise, as well as running the same services from the public Azure cloud on the platform.

Azure is also used for data backup and disaster recovery (DR). It can be used as an alternative to own-datacentres too. Instead of investing in local servers and storage, Azure can be a better alternative for running all of the business applications at one place. Microsoft ensures the availability for Azure globally by planting datacentres all around the world. Azure backup reserves three copies of your data in various locations in the datacentre, and then another three copies in a remote Azure data center.  Azure site recovery integrates with System Center and HyperV architectures, creating a strong and seamless coherence between Azure, System Center, and HyperV. It can integrate with the existing Active Directory to enhance identity and access capabilities—this gives your DNS an increased reach, centralized superintendence, and sturdy security. 

Azure is the only hybrid cloud, has more regions than any cloud provider, accouches exceptional developer productivity, and allows more extensive compliance coverage—including meeting the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These services mentioned are just a glimpse of what Azure can provide for your environment. Along with Microsoft’s distinguished services, it has adequate cloud-computing potential that the user can employ in practically any way possible. Calculate the estimated cost for your cloud computing needs from the Azure cloud pricing calculator and let us know what you think about Azure in the comments below.

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