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‘What is Azure?’ is the question many ask when looking at Microsoft products. The product is particularly interesting for companies in order to modernise their own infrastructure.
What is Azure? All information about the cloud
The name Microsoft Azure is used to describe a cloud offering that is better known as Windows Azure. The manufacturer made the name change in 2014.
- Through this offering, businesses can use a collection of cloud services.
- This does not require any investment in the company’s own IT resources. Maintenance and updates do not have to be organised by the company either.
- The provider selects the appropriate IT resources for the company’s needs and pays for them according to actual consumption.
- This way, the platform can be adapted to the specific needs of the company.
- Companies can use services from the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) sectors
- In addition, access to databases and storage systems is possible.
Advantages and disadvantages: What you should know when using Azure
When companies use Azure, they can benefit from a number of advantages during use.
- Using Azure is cost-efficient as you are only charged according to the actual consumption of the services.
- In addition, the capacity you need is immediately available, giving businesses more agility.
- Furthermore, companies can tailor the IT they use to their individual needs, keeping products scalable
- One disadvantage, however, is the multitude of cloud services on offer, which can make it difficult to keep track of them all
- Because Azure does not offer any consulting services on the product, companies sometimes find it difficult to assess which products fit their needs.
