Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is a cloud service from Microsoft that offers Infrastructure as a Service, (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) through its more than 600 services.
Microsoft Azure is present in 36 regions across the world. It was initially released in 2010 as Windows Azure, specifically designed for Windows virtual machines. In 2014, it was renamed Microsoft Azure; along with this, some of Microsoft's Linux services were also renamed. Some of the popular Azure services includes:
- Virtual machines
- SQL databases
- Functions
- Storage
- Azure Active Directory