Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure, is a cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft. It provides access, management, and development of applications and services through global data centers. Azure offers more than 200 products and cloud services, designed to help you bring new solutions to life, solve today’s challenges, and create the future. You can build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge using the tools and frameworks of your choice. Whether you’re interested in cloud storage, compute services, network services, cognitive services, databases, analytics, or IoT, Azure makes building, deploying, and managing applications easy.