What is Azure?

Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform, a growing collection of integrated services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web—for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money.

Azure is built on a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides both Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services, and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.