Microsoft Public Cloud

 

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud computing platform. It enables you to quickly build, deploy, and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. With Windows Azure, you can extend and even move your datacenter services off-premises or beyond a hosted environment, paying only for the resources you use at any given time. The flexible cloud computing platform of Windows Azure lets you focus on solving business problems and addressing customer needs.

 

Only Microsoft delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end cloud solution that is designed so your private cloud and public cloud work together. With Microsoft, the investments you make today will work for you in the future. Microsoft’s public cloud platform delivers the following benefits:

 

 

Windows Azure delivers a 99.95% monthly SLA and enables you to build and run highly available applications without focusing on the infrastructure.

 

 

Windows Azure enables you to use any language, framework, or tool to build applications.

 

 

Windows Azure 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.

 

 

Windows Azure delivers a flexible cloud platform that can satisfy any application need. It enables you to reliably host and scale out your application code within compute roles.

 

Try Windows Azure at no cost today. When you’ve completed your evaluation, you can explore pay as you go subscription packages and special offers for MSDN subscribers, MPN members and BizSpark members.