Microsoft
Azure is a cloud based platform with a large collection of integrated services,
Azure is constantly adding new integrated services as it grows. Azure is a
major player in the cloud platform community, it’s both infrastructure-as-a-service
(IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS). The combination of both managed and
unmanaged services allows the user to build, deploy, and manage their applications
in any way they choose. Azure makes data storage, backup, and recovery as efficient
and economical as I’ve seen compared to most cloud platforms.
One
of the best features that Microsoft Azure has to offer is its flexibility. When
I first heard about Azure I assumed it was going to be exclusive to the Windows
operating system as well as the Visual Studio IDE, but it’s not. Azure can be
used on any operating system, any programming language, any tool, and any
framework. I’ve personally used Azure with Visual Studio and the .Net language combined
with Oracle for my database and was amazed how flexible Azure is.
Azure
seems to have a good track record of staying online, for larger companies
having access to their cloud platform is crucial to their success. According to Microsoft website the Azure
platform stays online 99.95% of the time, which is amazing considering natural
disasters, weather problems, power outages, etc. Azure offers a “pay for what
you use” option that allows for smaller companies or even individual programmers
the ability to afford the services. I found that the “pay for what you use” is
not as great as it sounds however, Microsoft Azure offers 10 free webpages, I
created a site and uploaded it to Azure and used their database option, I never
published the site but was still charge for “traffic” and data stored in the
database. I still use Azure but I am careful with the options I choose.
Overall
I think Azure is doing a great job in the cloud computing platform, their “all-in-one”
cloud makes life for individual programmers all the way to large scale companies
much easier. I find Azure to be one of the more reliable cloud based platform
as well and I would recommend the service.
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