AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Study Guide

Chapter 01: Introduction to Azure
Introduction:
Azure, like Google and Amazon Cloud Platforms, is Microsoft’s Cloud Platform. It is typically a platform that allows us to use Microsoft tools. We need tremendous amount of money, energy, physical space, etc. to set up the huge IT infrastructure. In such circumstances, Microsoft Azure comes to our rescue. It offers us virtual machines, fast data processing, analytical tools, and monitoring instruments to simplify our work. Azure pricing is also simpler and cheaper. It is commonly referred to as “Pay as You Go”, meaning you only pay for the services when you are using them. Microsoft launched Azure’s Windows at the beginning of October 2008 but it became live in 2010. Microsoft later changed the name to Microsoft Azure in 2014, from Windows Azure. It has become one of the leading cloud services used today and is only growing bigger by the day.
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing is basically storing data and accessing the computers over the internet. It is the delivery of different computing services like servers, software, analytics, databases, and storage via the internet. Computing resources are delivered on-demand through a cloud service platform with pay-as-you-go pricing. The companies that are providing services termed as “Cloud Providers”. There are numbers of cloud providers like Amazon, Google and Azure.