What is Microsoft Azure?
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.
Microsoft Azure is a tool in the Cloud Hosting category of a tech stack.
Why developers like Microsoft Azure
Scales well and quite easy
Can use .Net or open source tools
Startup friendly
Startup plans via BizSpark
High performance
Wide choice of services
Lots of integrations
Low cost
Reliability