The Azure™ Services Platform enables businesses to run critical applications with a higher performance-price ratio by running them on the services platform’s data centers on a pay–as-you-go basis. Whether you are building new applications, augmenting established systems, or connecting with trading partners, you can take advantage of the Azure Services Platform to do it quickly, inexpensively, and across the Web and a range of connected devices.
Pay as you grow and reduce costs. Pay for the services you use and reduce the capital costs associated with purchasing hardware and infrastructure. Reduce operational costs by running applications on the services platform and decrease the need for maintaining on-premises infrastructure. Increase business efficiency and agility by dynamically adding and subtracting capacity in real time. Envision building an e-commerce Web site that you can scale at the click of a mouse to meet seasonal demands or spikes in traffic based on sales and promotions. The Azure Services Platform helps reduce IT-related costs, freeing up time and capital to focus on your core business.
Accelerate innovation. Build and deploy software quickly and easily by capitalizing on the same personnel, development tools investments, and knowledge that already power your IT organization. Use the services platform’s infrastructure to power prototyping environments for experimentation, and then launch to full-scale production as soon as your business needs it. Imagine connecting existing applications with an online database that can be shared with partners, or a service bus that enables secure B2B connectivity across firewalls. Both scenarios work with the Azure Services Platform.
