Introduction
Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform and is a competitor to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public cloud providers. Azure provides you with access to a vast and constantly growing range of features. It enables any organization to move some of, most of, or even their entire on-premises infrastructure into the cloud.
Azure features come in three levels:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
IaaS is, in effect, an instant computing infrastructure that you can provision, manage, and use over the Internet or via a private network connection. IaaS includes essential computing infrastructure components (servers, storage, networking, firewalls, and security), plus the physical plant you require to run these components (for example, power and air conditioning). In an IaaS environment, the servers are Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) (effectively Hyper-V VMs) and interact...
