Article of today, will be covering an Introduction to Microsoft Azure, Datacenter Locations of Azure, Azure Services and much more.

What is Azure?

Previously Known Windows Azure is known as Microsoft Azure.

Azure is basically a color, such a color that is similar to that of a sky with clear clouds, Microsoft Grabbed the concept and naming convention for their cloud services to the community. This is how Cloud Services of Cloud comes into a portal named Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Azure serves the public with cloud services for individual as well as Organisations i.e. deployment of organisation infrastructures, Applications and Services like IaaS, PaaS, SaaS worldwide.

Microsoft Azure, Plays role variantly, it can be used in conjunction with multiple solutions that are offered by Microsoft to enhance the stability of organisations, making organisations more scalable. Mainly focus this brings transformation to the datacenters of the organisations, in a way that datacenters converts to the hybrid model, from local model or I can say Local Infrastructure. This majorly enhance the way organisation approaches to the community.

Uses of Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure, is all about the services it provides, for example Organisations or even individuals can make virtual machines and make the organisation grow without the hardware cost, maintenance cost. Not only Virtual Machine, If you have an organisation and its network centres maintain all the network resources i.e. Servers, Network Switches, Load Balancers. Now with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft offers you not to bare such heavy pricing and all just utilise Azure services i.e. Virtual Switches, Virtual Network Load Balancers, Virtual Machines and much more.

Moreover, Suppose you run web apps, enterprise apps of the organisation, with Microsoft Azure you don't need to worry about the version of the softwares that whether they are latest or not services at azure always run upon the latest versions. same goes for the storage. now if you deploy databases, even raw storages i.e. page storage, blob storage. are utilised via azure services instead of being locally deployed. this all run over the latest versions.

Lets have a look upon an example of SaaS (Software as a Service), suppose we run any application layer i.e OMS (operational Management Suite) Which is operated via Operational Insight Services. All is handled via Microsoft Azure Services by plugging all the apps that you manage in organisation to Microsoft Azure Management Services. Rest is Azure Job.

Azure DataCenter Locations

Azure services are hosted in physical Microsoft-managed data centers throughout the world. The data centers are in multiple geographic areas, with a pair of regional data centers in each geographic region.

Azure Services: Compute, Storage and Identities

Within the Information Technology Spectrum, Microsoft Azure provides many computing, Storage, User Identity Services. These all Services of Microsoft Azure can be categorised upon vast range of categories.

Compute and Networking Services

Virtual Machines: You can create virtual Machines that are not bound to run windows, but they can be any i.e. Windows, Linux, Servers etc.

Virtual Machines Scale Sets: Using the Azure Resource Manager you can Deploy Virtual Machines Scale sets.

Virtual Networks: Empower the organisations to connect over the networks, via Virtual Networks, as well as help in integration of PaaS, and rest cloud services.

Cloud Services: You can define multiple PaaS services, that you can deploy and manage over cloud using Microsoft Azure.

Load Balancer: You can deploy a network load balancer in Azure and Manage the Network Loads Efficiently.

VPN Gateway: You can connect your On-Premises network to Azure through Site to Site keeping in mind about the VPN Protocols.

Azure DNS: You can use the domain naming service of Azure to manage your Domain Naming Service Records.

Express Route: Azure Express Route is the way, to connect your On-Premises Data Center with the Azure Data Center. Using High Speed Network Connections.

Traffic Manager: You can implement Traffic Balancing to manage High Availability and Large Scalability.

Network Watcher: Monitor of your network can be achieved via this service.

Storage and Backup Services

Azure Storage: Store data in files, Large Binary Objects (BLOB's) and many other formats.

Data Lake Store: you can use the Data lake store to work with big data analytics.

StorSimple: Well Storage Infrastructure, automation of data management across the organisations, acceleration of disaster recovery, comes under this service.

Backup: You can use Azure Backup Services to backup the on-premises server, datacenters.

Azure Site Recovery: Manage the failover with this service of Azure, for the on-premises Infrastructures.

Security and Identity Services

Azure Security Center: All the resources that you manage at azure, their security threats and statuses can be surveillance via Azure Security Center.

Key Vault: With the key vault feature in Azure, we can can mange the encrypted resources with the environment. Which help in reduction of latency with cloud scale and global redundancy, and automate tasks for SSL/TLS certificates.

Azure Active Directory: AAD you are meant to integrate the corporate directory with azure and enable the Single Sign On Services (SSO).

Azure Active Directory Domain Services: you can connect the Azure VM's within the domain without Domain Controllers.

Azure Multi Factor Authentication: you can take with some additional Azure Security Measures to Verify the User Identity.

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