Cloud computing's target audience
Cloud computing can be different things to different people depending on their perspective and their role or function. A business leader will have one idea of what cloud computing needs to deliver, which will be very different from the technology leader and very different from a developer, a database admin, or a data scientist. They all have other wants and needs, and so cloud computing as a model almost has to be all things to all people.
Azure provides the following high-level categorization of services to a business:
- Hosted infrastructure platform
- Application development platform
- Data and analytics platform
- Monitoring and management platform
- Hybrid and multi-cloud control plane platform
- Security operations platform
- Identity and compliance platform
With regard to Azure, as Microsoft's cloud computing platform, these different functions are very well catered for, making it relevant from all perspectives...
