Windows azure is another cloud computing platform in market that is created by Microsoft. It is fastest growing cloud computing platform among various cloud platform available in market like AWS, Google, and Oracle etc. It provides various services to building, deploying and managing your application and services through global datacenter managed by Microsoft.
Windows Azure is virtualized environment that provides a shared pool of compute, disk, network resources that can be used as common building blocks of distributed applications.
There are 3 types of Service models provided by azure.
1) Software as a Service (SSAS)
2) Platform as a Service (PAAS)
3) Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
Software as a Service (SSAS): In this the application vendor(provider) install or deploy the application software in the cloud and
users access that software from cloud so users does not need to manage the cloud infrastructure and platform
on which the application is running.
Example: Gmail, Salesforce, Office 365
Platform as a Service (PAAS): In this vendor provides a computing platform like Operating System, compiler, web server, database etc.
The users can use these platform on cloud to run or develop their applications.
Example: Azure Web Role, Azure Worker Role, SQL Azure
Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS): In this, provider provides physical hardware virtually like Virtual machine,firewalls, load balancers, storage, networks etc.
Example: Azure VM
Windows Azure is virtualized environment that provides a shared pool of compute, disk, network resources that can be used as common building blocks of distributed applications.
There are 3 types of Service models provided by azure.
1) Software as a Service (SSAS)
2) Platform as a Service (PAAS)
3) Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)
Software as a Service (SSAS): In this the application vendor(provider) install or deploy the application software in the cloud and
users access that software from cloud so users does not need to manage the cloud infrastructure and platform
on which the application is running.
Example: Gmail, Salesforce, Office 365
Platform as a Service (PAAS): In this vendor provides a computing platform like Operating System, compiler, web server, database etc.
The users can use these platform on cloud to run or develop their applications.
Example: Azure Web Role, Azure Worker Role, SQL Azure
Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS): In this, provider provides physical hardware virtually like Virtual machine,firewalls, load balancers, storage, networks etc.
Example: Azure VM
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