What is Microsoft Azure – ‘The Thing Explainer’

Microsoft Azure is an infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud computing platform for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centres.

In short, Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web—for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money.

To help you better understand what Microsoft Azure really is, we developed the below ‘Thing Explainer’ to describe some of the more tricky aspects of Azure.