What is Microsoft Azure?

Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform. It provides a variety of services to both individuals and organizations. Cloud computing enables convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of computing resources over the network. These resources can range from storage and servers to applications that can be deployed rapidly.

Azure provides rapid provisioning of compute resources to help you host your existing applications, streamline new application development, and even enhance on-premises applications. These resources are managed by Microsoft; however, you can monitor them and get reports and alerts when issues arise. This is all built on top of resource pools that can be dynamically assigned to the required services, which can include CPU, memory, storage, and network bandwidth.

There are four categories of service models offered by Azure, which are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS...