Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform.
Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft datacentres. It is a flexible platform that supports multiple languages and integrates with your existing on-premises environment.
Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.
Windows Azure delivers a 99.95% monthly SLA and enables you to build and run highly available applications without focusing on the infrastructure. It provides automatic OS and service patching, built in network load balancing and resiliency to hardware failure.
Windows Azure enables you to use any language, framework, or tool to build applications. Features and services are exposed using open REST protocols. Windows Azure also enables you to easily scale your applications to any size. It is a fully automated self-service platform that allows you to provision resources within minutes and elastically grow or shrink your resource usage based on your needs.
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Find out more about how Microsoft's cloud platform allows developers to run applications and store data on virtual machines in an internet-accessible data center.
Find out how dozens of companies all over the world are using Windows Azure to grow their business and better service customers.
The possibilities are unlimited. Find out how you can build software as a service, enterprise applications, games and more with Windows Azure.
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