Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform, offering hundreds of services for computing, storage, databases, networking, AI and analytics from data centres around the world, including several regions in India. It is the second-largest public cloud after AWS.

Well-known Azure services include Virtual Machines, App Service for web apps, Azure Functions for serverless code, Azure SQL Database, Blob Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure OpenAI. Azure integrates closely with Microsoft products such as Windows Server, Active Directory (Entra ID), Office 365 and .NET, which makes it popular with enterprises.