Discovering Microsoft Azure - Cloud Computing

What is Azure ? 

As most of you know that azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform . Before we start to know what azure is and what it can do , lets talk a little bit about cloud computing .

I just want to go over a couple of terms that we will be using here , that some of thing that goes with cloud computing . 

Infrastructure As A Service(IAAS) , renting hardware to some one else in the cloud .

Platform As A Service(PASS) , this is a great environment for build and deploy and test software application . 

Software As A Service(SAAS) , software is going to be centrally hosted and managed for the end user.Office 365 and Microsoft 365 are some of examples of SAAS.

Why move to cloud ?

Cost Effective 

• Pay As you go pricing 
• Pay Only for the resources you use 

Scalable

    Virtually scale resources

• Adding a faster CPU 
• Adding memory    

    Horizontally scale

• Add more servers

Elastic 

• Automatically add or remove resources 
• Add more resources when your application is most heavily used

Reliable 

• Your data is safe (Data backups , Disaster recovery, Data Replication)

Secure 

• Physical Security 
• Digital Security