As the name suggests, Microsoft Azure is a public cloud platform owned by Microsoft, which provides different PaaS and IaaS services for their customers. Some of the popular services are virtual machine, app service, SQL database, Resource Manager, and so on.
The Azure services fall mainly into these two categories:
- Platform services: These are the services where customers are provided with an environment to build, manage, and execute their applications while taking care of the infrastructure themselves. The following are some of the Azure services by its various categories:
- Management services: These provide a management portal and marketplace services, which provide galleries and tools for automation in Azure.
- Compute: These are services such as fabric, functions, and so on, which help the developer to develop and deploy highly scalable...