Azure
Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive and flexible cloud computing platform and set of online services provided by Microsoft. It offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing, analytics, storage, networking, and application development, enabling organizations to build, deploy, and…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2010
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Microsoft Azure was created to solve the limitations of traditional on-premises IT infrastructure, which struggled with scalability, global reach, high upfront capital expenditure, slow provisioning times, and the burden of infrastructure maintenance. It offered an elastic, pay-as-you-go model, enabling businesses to rapidly deploy applications globally, innovate faster, and reduce operational overhead, addressing the growing demand for flexible, reliable, and cost-effective computing resources that its predecessors (traditional data centers) could not easily provide.
- Platforms
- docker_containers, web, linux, kubernetes, windows
Related technologies
Notable users
- Walgreens
- GE Healthcare
- 3M
- Starbucks
- Samsung
- Coca-Cola
- HP
- Boeing
- Adobe
- Chevron