Before we speak about Microsoft Azure data centers or their locations, let's know what exactly is Microsoft Azure is. In short, Azure is a cloud platform/services provided by Microsoft to the customers in a way similar to that of Amazon AWS, Google Cloud or any other cloud service providers. You can use its services for testing your applications or build those applications on it. Also, you can host these applications on its cloud data centers and access it whenever you want, wherever you are. Just the thing is, you need to have your internet connection.
Services of Microsoft Azure
I went to their website to check the services that they provide as Microsoft Azure. I could see 200+ products there. So, its quite exhaustive list to put it all here. So, we will list out only few services and products that has been highlighted there such as:
- Compute
- Containers
- Database
- Developer tools
- AI and machine learning
- Blockchain
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Storage
- Security
- Web hosting
- Virtual Desktop
That's not even 10% of services what Microsoft Azure provides. So, you can understand what many varieties of cloud services they are capable of providing. It's good to know the services. But many a times, locations of the data centers also determine our decision on whether to choose a particular cloud service or not. Given the similar services, location does play the role in deciding our choice of cloud infrastructure provider. Therefore, in our next blog, we will cover the locations of Azure data centers.
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