What is Microsoft Azure?
The Microsoft Azure cloud platform comprises more than 200 products and services. These services are designed specifically to help organizations willing to create innovative solutions that are efficient enough to solve modern business challenges and set the status-quo of the future. It brings seamlessness and flexibility to use tools and frameworks of your choice to build, run, and manage versatile applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, or at the edge.
Microsoft Azure is a public computing platform that includes infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) at its core. Azure offers everything a business needs for running virtual computing, storing, networking, analytics, databases, and more.
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It offers complete IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS compatibility.
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It offers flexibility to move computing resources up and down as per necessity.
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It supports almost all operating systems, languages, tools, and frameworks.
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It offers 99.5% availability and 24/7 tech support.
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It houses data in geosynchronous data centers for seamless global accessibility.
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It is cost-efficient as it operates with pay for what you use model.
7 Key Benefits of Azure
- Speed: Azure is amazingly faster. The speed provided by Azure for Deployment, Operation, and Scalability is simply unmatched. You can connect private connections or on-premises networks to Azure using the Microsoft global network. It connects directly to WAN and supports IPv6 workloads for providing increased reliability and speed.
- Scalability: An organization changes over time, requiring either downsizing or growing the infrastructure-related investment. Microsoft Azure offers on-demand scalability allowing organizations to increase or decrease storage space and computing power as per their need.
- Security: Microsoft Azure is designed Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) model and was the first to embrace the new international standard for cloud privacy, ISO 2701. It enhances the privacy, integrity, and availability of sensitive customer information by combining existing built-in security tools with existing cybersecurity systems and policies.
- Compliance: Microsoft Azure offers more than 35 compliance compatibilities. Each compatibility is necessary and well-aligned specifically with the key industries, such as healthcare, manufacturing, government, finance, education, etc. With Microsoft Azure, it becomes easy to comply with the evolving regulatory guidelines of HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, CMMC, and more.
- Cost-efficiency: Microsoft Azure offers a pay-as-you-go model enabling you to purchase; only what you need. Its consumption-based pricing structure allows businesses of all sizes to leverage cloud benefits and manage their IT budgets efficiently.
- Availability: Compared to other cloud service providers, Microsoft Azure offers high availability and redundancy across all its data centers. As of now, Microsoft Azure operates across 55 regions globally and is available in about 140 countries. Microsoft Azure has an undisputed global reach making it the only one to offer an SLA ensuring 99.5% availability.
- Interoperability: Microsoft Azure provide enterprise-level development tools that can be used to build, deploy, and manage custom web apps. Microsoft Azure aids Internet protocols and open standards such as XML, SOAP, REST, and HTTP. Besides, it also offers a software development kit for Java, PHP, and Ruby. Else, you can use programming languages, including .NET, Java, Python, Kubernetes, and much more.
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December 20, 2024
