Windows Azure is a cloud services OS that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® data centres.
Windows Azure is an open platform that supports Microsoft and non-Microsoft languages and environments. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft® Visual Studio® expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, and PHP. As with other technologies for cloud computing, Windows Azure is intended to simplify IT management and minimise up-front and ongoing expenses. To this end, Azure was designed to facilitate the management of scalable Web applications over the Internet. Windows Azure® is classified as Platform as a Service and forms part of Microsoft's cloud computing strategy.
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