Microsoft Azure is an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform from Microsoft which was first released as Windows Azure on February 1, 2010 and then got renamed as Microsoft Azure on March 25, 2014. You can build, deploy, and manage applications and services using the Azure portal, globally available through the Microsoft data centers.
It basically delivers IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and SaaS (Software as a Service) and supports different programming languages, tools, and frameworks to build and manage applications/services.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
- Understanding the cloud computing basics
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Platform as a Service
- Software as a Service
- Creating your free Azure account
- Configuring Visual Studio 2017 for Azure development...
