What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed and Microsoft partner hosted datacenters. It provides both PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks.

A cloud computing platform and infrastructure, for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed and Microsoft partner hosted data centers.