Cloud Computing’s Target Audience
Cloud computing can mean 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 may be very different from a technology leader and may be very different from a developer, a database admin, or a data scientist. They all have specific wants and needs, so cloud computing as a model must almost be all things to everyone.
Azure typically provides the following high-level categorization of services to a business:
- Hosted infrastructure platform
- Application development platform
- Data, AI, and analytics platform
- Monitoring and management platform
- Hybrid and multi-cloud control plane platform
- Security operations platform
- Identity and compliance platform
In the context of Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, these different functions are well catered for, making it relevant...