What is Azure

• Azure is Microsoft's Cloud computing platform with an ever expanding set of services to help you build solutions to meet your business goals.
• Azure supports infrastructure, platform, and software as a service computing with services, such as virtual machines running in the cloud, website and database hosting, and advanced computing services like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and IoT.
• Most of Azure services are pay as you go, you only pay for the computing time that you use.

Azure Core Services

• If your business needs complete control over your computing environment, Azure allows you to host virtual machines in the Cloud. You can create virtual machines from scratch, upload your own virtual hard drive, or choose from an array of templates that Azure provides.
• Azure also provides cloud-based storage, which allows you to store your application or backup data safely and securely.
• Azure's app services provide a scalable hosting platform where developers can create web based applications using popular development frameworks. You can easily deploy, operate, and scale your apps in a fully managed environment.
• With Azure functions, you can create event driven serverless applications with no coding required.
• Azure Container Instances and Azure Kubernetes Service allow you to deploy containerized applications with fully managed services.
• Azure offers a choice of fully managed relational and in-memory databases, spanning proprietary and open source engines, and Microsoft's Cosmos DB provides support for several popular NoSQL APIs.
• Azure's artificial intelligence and machine learning services empower developers and data scientists with a wide range of productive experiences for building, training, and deploying machine learning models faster.
• Azure's regional data centers allow you to distribute your applications globally so you can locate your data in apps where they're needed most, thereby improving your application performance for your customers.
• The Azure portal lets you create, configure, and control all your services and resources from a single, easy to use web-based interface.
• Microsoft Azure offers a wide array of cloud computing services where infrastructure management, scalability, availability, and security are handled for you saving you time and money.

What does Azure offer?

• Be ready for the future: Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today and your product visions for tomorrow.
• Build on your terms: You have choices. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, you can build how you want and deploy where you want.
• Operate hybrid seamlessly: On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge, we'll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with tools and services designed for a hybrid cloud solution.
• Trust your cloud: Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups.

What can I do with Azure?

• Running your existing applications on virtual machines
• Exploring new software paradigms, such as intelligent bots and mixed reality.
• Azure provides artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML) services that can naturally communicate with your users through vision, hearing, and speech.
• It also provides storage solutions that dynamically grow to accommodate massive amounts of data.