What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform. It provides a range of cloud services including computing, analytics, storage and networking.
What are the benefits of Azure?
The 5 major benefits of Microsoft Azure are; Speed of services, Increased flexibility, Extensibility, Disaster recovery and high security.
What can Microsoft Azure be used for?
Virtual machines; Create Microsoft or Linux virtual machines (VMs) in minutes from a wide range of templates or from your own images. SQL databases, Azure Active Directory Domain services, Application services, Visual Studio team services and storage.
Who uses Azure?
Microsoft Azure is used by many organisations worldwide. Here is a list of some of them: eBay, Boeing, Samsung, GE Healthcare and BMW.
How many companies use Azure?
According to the latest public figures, around 2 million companies worldwide are already using Microsoft Azure.
Are Azure and Microsoft 365 the same?
Azure is built for cloud-based machines, networks, storage and business systems. In abbreviations, Microsoft 365 is a SaaS concept, where Azure is both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), depending on how it is used.
