This document provides an overview of Microsoft Azure, including what it is, when it launched, how it works, how much it has grown, its components, benefits, cons, and reasons for using it. The key points are: - Microsoft Azure is a public cloud platform launched in 2008 that manages hardware infrastructure and resources accessible over the internet. - It uses virtualization technology to emulate computer hardware with software and maintains data centers hosting servers for customers. - Since 2008, Azure has grown to be the second largest public cloud platform after AWS, with 22% of the market share as of 2021. - Its main components include computing, storage, databases, content delivery networks, and security/authentication services.

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2. Table of Contents what is MS Azure?
When did Azure launch?
how does Azure work?
how much did Azure grow?
what are Azure's components?
why do we need Azure?
what are Azure's benefits?
what are Azure's cons?
why use Azure?
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3. What is Ms Azure?
Microsoft Azure is a public cloud
platform with more than 200 products
and services accessible over the public
internet.
Like other public cloud vendors, Azure
manages and maintains hardware,
infrastructure, and resources that can
be accessed for free or pay-per-use,
on-demand basis.
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4. When did Azure
Launch?
Today, Microsoft Azure serves millions of
applications, integrations, and customers. But its
humble origins can be traced back to 2008 when it
was announced as Project Red Dog.
The name “Azure” — for those who never got too
deep into the jumbo-sized crayon box — is taken
from a lovely shade of sky blue.
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5. how does
Azure work?
Like other cloud platforms, Microsoft Azure depends
on a technology called virtualization, which is the
emulation of computer hardware in software. This is
made possible by the fact that most computer
hardware works by following a set of instructions
encoded directly into the silicon. By mapping
software instructions to emulate hardware
instructions, virtualized hardware can use software
to function like “real” hardware.
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Cloud providers maintain multiple data centers, each one having hundreds
(if not thousands) of physical servers that execute virtualized hardware for
customers. Microsoft Azure architecture runs on a massive collection of
servers and networking hardware, which, in turn, hosts a complex collection
of applications that control the operation and configuration of the software
and virtualized hardware on these servers.
This complex orchestration is what makes Azure so powerful. It ensures
that users no longer have to spend their time maintaining and upgrading
computer hardware as Azure takes care of it all behind the scenes.
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7. how much did
Azure grow?
Since its creation in 2008, Microsoft Azure
has grown to become the second-largest of
the top three public cloud platforms — just
behind market leader Amazon Web Services
(AWS) and ahead of Google Cloud Platform
(GCP).
As of the second quarter of 2021, AWS
controlled 31% of the market, Microsoft Azure
took 22%, and Google Cloud sat at 8% market
share — according to Statista.
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AWS
31%
Azure
22%
GCP
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8. what are Azure's
components?
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Compute
Virtual Machine
VM Scale Sets
Storage
It presents computing operations like deployment, development, and app hosting in Azure
Architecture stages. It has the following components as under:
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Azure storage account is a key player when it comes to data storage on the cloud. It provides a
pay-as-you-go facility to only pay the cost of the resources which are used for data. Its capacity
can be expanded limitlessly.
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9. what are Azure's
components?
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Database
Content Delivery Network
Security And Authentication:
This class offer Database as a Service that offers NoSQL and SQL tasks. It also offers databases
like Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos DB.
It collects fixed web content about the strategy of a placed venue. This assists to furnish speed
for hand over the content to people.
This component is responsible for all the security issues like identifying and responding to
security threats, managing user access, authentication, authorization, encryption of keys, etc.
Azure Active Directory(AAD), Azure Key Vault, etc are commonly used services used.

10. why do we need
Azure?
Microsoft Azure lets businesses and
individuals create, run, and manage
applications and solve various
technical challenges with flexibility
across various clouds and on-
premises data centers.
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11. what are Azure's benefits?
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Cost
Effective
Scalability
Data
Security
High
Availability
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12. what are Azure's cons?
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Requires
Management
Requires
Platform
Expertise
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13. why use Azure?
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Microsoft has a long history in enterprise
organizations. Enterprises and those
with hybrid environments or
environments with essential legacy
Microsoft solutions often prefer
Microsoft Azure to AWS and GCP.
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14. Thank you
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