Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Virtual Machines (Azure VMs) is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that allows users to deploy and manage virtualized computing resources, including operating systems, data disks, and networking components, in Microsoft's cloud. It provides on-demand, scalable compute capacity…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2012
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Azure Virtual Machines was created to solve the problems associated with on-premises infrastructure, such as high capital expenditure for hardware, long procurement cycles, limited scalability, physical data center maintenance, and the complexities of building highly available and disaster-recoverable systems. It virtualizes the underlying hardware, allowing users to provision and manage servers rapidly with a pay-as-you-go operational expense model.
- Platforms
- Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure
Related technologies
Notable users
- Coca-Cola
- Heineken
- Adobe
- NHS (National Health Service - UK)
- Bosch
- Starbucks