Microsoft Azure offers an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform with a vast service catalog focused around Infrastructure Services (IaaS) and Data & App Services (PaaS). By using an open and flexible platform, Azure supports the same technologies most developers and IT professionals already rely on, allowing your organization to get more done.An open and flexible cloud service platform Azure supports the broadest selection of operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, tools, databases, and devices. Azure cloud service supports the same technologies millions of developers and IT professionals already rely on and trust.

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. Any developer or IT professional can be productive with Azure. The integrated tools, pre-built templates, and managed services make it easier to build and manage enterprise, mobile, Web and Internet of Things (IoT) apps faster, using skills you already have and technologies you already know. Microsoft is also the only vendor positioned as a Leader across Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Application Platform as a Service, and Cloud Storage Services for the second consecutive year.