Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure, or Windows Azure as it started life as, is Microsoft's entry into the public cloud. It offers a mixture of the software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services. It began life as an internal Microsoft project with the codename of Project Red Dog around 2005. Project Red Dog was a continuation of the Red Dog OS, which was a fork of the Windows operating system, which was focused on delivering data center services using core Windows components.
The service that was publicly announced at the Microsoft Developer conference in 2008 was made up of five core services:
- Windows Azure: Allows users to spin up and manage compute instances, storage, and various networking services.
- Microsoft SQL Data Services: A cloud version of the Microsoft SQL database.
- Microsoft .NET services: Services that would allow you to deploy your .NET instance to the cloud without having to worry about...
