All-Business Cloud Platform
Microsoft is the second largest cloud provider on the market. Microsoft Azure cloud offers rich PaaS functionality and integrable SaaS products beneficial for:
SaaS Startups: Achieving faster time to market due to Azure’s compoundable services.
Small and mid-sized businesses: Getting automated migration and infrastructure construction with Azure’s PaaS services.
Businesses using Microsoft products in-house: Which then benefit from lift-and-shift migrations of their IT infrastructures to Azure.
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Featured Services of Microsoft Azure
Cloud computing
Azure Functions
Serverless event- and request- triggered computing at scale with declarative access to Azure’s and third-party services.
Azure CycleCloud
Dynamically scaled computing, networking and caching environment for high-performance data processing.
Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Centralized management of autoscaled and dynamically balanced virtual machines for large workloads and big data.
Azure VMware Solution
VMware-compatible service for migration and management of your sets of VMs at scale.
Containerization
Container Instances
Running scalable isolated containers (ACIs) in Azure’s serverless environment.
Azure Kubernetes Service
A native Kubernetes orchestration tool integrable with multiple Azure development services.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Running OpenShift container clusters in Azure environment managed by Microsoft and Red Hat.
Azure Service Fabric
Cross-platform service to arrange and manage containers with on-demand scalability.
Databases
Azure SQL Database
Building scalable relational databases.
Azure Cosmos DB
Fast clustered NoSQL database with multi-model sub-DBs deployed in each cluster for horizontal scalability.
Azure Cache for Redis
Management of distributed Redis server instances yielding low latencies through caching.
Azure Database for MySQL/ PostgreSQL/MariaDB
Virtualization services to implement scalable databases.
Azure Database Migration Service
DB migration wizard for automated migration of workloads.
Data storage
Blob storage
Scalable data management service enabling high-throughput processing of unstructured data for big data applications.
Azure Data Lake Storage
Secure data lake management platform built around Blob storage and integrated with analytics frameworks.
Azure Disk Storage
Storage for Azure VMs with a range of options for SSDs and HDDs.
Azure Files
File share management service supporting the SMB protocol compatible with Windows, Linux and macOS.
Azure HPC Cache
Cashing of on-premises and cloud data for high performance computing tasks.
Azure Backup
Snapshot backup/recovery tool supporting encryption and prolonged data retention time.
Machine learning
Azure Pipelines
CI/CD management tool for automated building, testing and deployment of code to containers, virtual machines and Azure Services.
Azure DevTest Labs
Development and testing environments self-managed by developers within defined quotas and policies.
Azure Repos
Unlimited Git repositories with internal CI/CD kit and push-pull policy management.
Azure Boards
Project management environment for planning and tracking development workflows integrable with various third-party extensions.
Azure Test Plans
QA solution helping create and trace testing scenarios as well as gather and handle user feedback.
Azure Artifacts
Package management tool enabling multi-type and multi-source package feed in your CI/CD pipelines.
Internet of Things
Azure IoT Central
Powerful IoT platform enabling monitoring and management of an IoT ecosystem.
Azure IoT solution accelerators
IoT assistant service helping build IoT network based on ready-made domain-specific scenarios.
Azure IoT Hub
Establishing secure communication between IoT devices and apps.
Azure Digital Twins
Context-oriented prototyping of scalable IoT spaces and processes for PoC purposes.
Azure Time Series Insights
Real-time processing and visualization of IoT data.
Azure Sphere
Hardware and software IoT solution for secure communication of devices.