Azure

Cloud computing platform for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications through Microsoft-managed data centers worldwide. Delivers compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, and AI services that organizations use to run and scale workloads.

Trusted by enterprises such as Premier League, Nasdaq, Dentsu, and Apollo Hospitals. Operates more regions than any other cloud provider, with 70-plus geographic regions across 400-plus datacenters. Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. Offers over 200 products and services, alongside extensive SDK support for mainstream languages and the Azure CLI for developer workflows.

Key features:

• Over 200 services spanning compute, storage, databases, analytics, AI, and serverless
• Global infrastructure with more regions than any major cloud provider
• Official SDKs and Azure CLI for Python, .NET, JavaScript, Java, and Go
• Infrastructure as code via Bicep, Terraform, and ARM
• Managed services for containers, Kubernetes, serverless functions, and databases

Engineers deploy web and mobile backends, APIs, and microservices using Azure Functions, Container Apps, or AKS. Data teams run analytics pipelines, data lakes, and ML training on managed databases and Azure Machine Learning. DevOps automates CI/CD, container orchestration, and monitoring across the platform.