What is Cloud Computing?

See: Explain Cloud Computing

Types of cloud computing services

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Software as a Service (SaaS)

What is Microsoft Azure?

Azure is a Cloud Computing Platform from Microsoft. Microsoft is the “Cloud Services Provider (CSP)” -> Azure.

• Azure (referred to as Azure) is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.
• Azure is a public cloud computing platform (for building, deploying, and managing services and applications, anywhere)
• Azure a cloud computing service
• Azure offres:
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Can be used to replace or supplement your on-premise servers
• Azure is used by 85% of Fortune 500 companies
• Microsoft has 100+ datacenters around the globe (60+ regions, in Japan there are datacenters in Tokyo & Osaka)

Accounts Subscriptions and Resources in Azure

To access Microsoft Azure services The highest level mechanism that you’re going to need to do that is an account. Account uniquely identifies you as an Azure user inside of Microsoft. Azure subscriptions are used to grant you the user access to Azure based resource and resource is are those things that you consume inside of Azure i.e. virtual machines, networking, infrastructure storage and much more.

Why to use Azure

• Azure can provide everything a business needs to run all or part of its computing operations virtually—including servers, storage, databases, networking, analytics and more
• Azure removes the burden of upgrades and maintenance headaches
• Azure makes it easy to add or remove computing resources in minutes
• Flexible to scale up
• Reliability
• Security
• And many more…