Almost 70% of organizations worldwide at one time have used Microsoft Azure for their cloud services since 2015. About 486,738 companies use Microsoft Azure for their day-to-day service.
Microsoft Azure's key solutions used by these companies include data management, media services, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), developer tools, and internet of things (IoT) applications.
40% of Microsoft Azure customers are in the United States(288.9 million customers) and 7% are in the United Kingdom(50.5 million customers).
Countries
Number of Customers
Percentage
United States
288.9 million customers
40%
United Kingdom
50.5 million customers
7%
Canada
2 million customers
0.04%
Australia
209,444 customers
0.03%
Netherlands
137,222 customers
0.02%
Brazil
122,777 customers
0.02%
France
111,222 customers
0.02%
India
109,055 customers
0.02%
Germany
101,110 customers
0.01%
Spain
79,444 customers
0.01%
After the two players, there are many countries using Microsoft Azure, though the percentage of customers is way lower than the US and the UK's.
There's also Canada, Australia, India, and lots of European countries that use Azure. Though, all of these have less than 0% of the total Azure consumers.
Microsoft Azure's servers are all over the world, with servces in North & South Ameirca, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Americas
Europe
Africa
Asia-Pacific
Brazil South
France Central
South Africa North
Australia East
Canada Central
Germany West Central
Central India
Central US
North Europe
Japan East
East US
Norway East
Korea Central
East US 2
West Europe
Southeast Asia
South Central US
Sweden Central
East Asia
US Gov Virginia
China North 2
West US 2
West US 3
Most of Microsoft Azure's serves are located in the Americas: North & South. After that, Azure's most servers are in Asia, followed by Europe and Africa.
Deepak Patil is the SVP, of APEX Engineering at Dell Technologies and he was the Founder of Microsoft Azure. He attended the College of Engineering Pune.
About 1,500 personnel from Microsoft, the parent company of Microsoft Azure, are currently assigned to support and manage the Azure Cloud infrastructure.
Azure primarily makes its money by allowing customers to pay based on consumed services, products, and resources on the cloud.
How much do Azure services cost?
Due to the number of services available, the cost of Azure varies enormously depending on which parts of it a business decides to use, and how much they actually use it.
There are no upfront costs involved with Azure, and customers only pay for what they use, with many services charged by the hour.
For example, Azure App Service, which allows users to create powerful cloud-based apps for web and mobile, starts from $0.013 per hour. Using Azure’s managed relational SQL database as a service costs $0.021 per hour. Both of these, like many of Azure’s services, are free for the first 12 months.
Some services, such as REST-based “blob” storage for unstructured data, are charged according to data usage, rather than time; blob storage costs $0.002 per gigabyte, with 5GB free for the first 12 months.
Other services are charged by the number of executions a user performs through Azure; the Functions service costs $0.20 per million executions, with the first million free every month.
Ther eare 10 products/services at Microsoft Azure. See all of them and their descriptions below.
Products/Service
Description
Azure DevOps
It is one of the first Azure cloud services launched into the market. The Azure DevOps services are ideal for smarter planning and better collaboration to ensure faster delivery. Users could find Azure DevOps services as ideal choices for building, testing, and deploying with CI/CD. Based on your business needs, one can choose any DevOps service. The services are:
• Azure Repos - This provides Git repositories or Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC).
• Azure Pipelines - This provides build and release services to support continuous integration and delivery of the application.
• Azure Boards - Azure Boards delivers a set of tools to support planning and tracking work, code defects, and issues using Kanban and Scrum methods.
• Azure Test Plans - This provides tools to test the applications, including both manual testing and continuous testing.
• Azure Artifacts - This allows sharing packages from public sources, and private sources and integrating package sharing into the pipelines.
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's object storage cloud solution. It is optimized for storing huge amounts of unstructured data, the data that doesn't belong to a particular data model or definition.
Azure Blob Storage is designed for:
• Adding images or documents to the browser directly
• Writing log files
• Streaming media such as audio or video files
• Storing data for backup and restore disaster recovery, and archiving
Azure Virtual Machines
You can get Burstable VMs, Compute-optimized VMs, Memory-optimized VMs, and general-purpose VMs with Microsoft Azure. The per-second billing makes this service even more desirable for businesses. Azure Virtual Machines can be used in the following ways:
• Development and test
Quick and easy way to create computers with basic and specific configurations required to code and test the applications.
• Applications in the cloud
One can pay for extra VMs when they need them and shut them down when they don't.
• Extended datacenter
VMs in Azure Virtual Network can easily be connected to the organization's network.
Azure Backup
An azure backup is an ideal tool for simplifying data protection from human errors. This service also allows you to keep your application consistent with the help of VSS snapshot (Windows) and fsfreeze (Linux). It gives us benefits like:
• Offload on-premises backup
• Backup Azure IaaS VMs
• Scale easily
• Get unlimited data transfer
• Keep data secure
• Centralized monitoring and management
• App-consistent backups
• Retain short and long-term data
• Automatic storage management
• Multiple storage options
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB offers a globally distributed, fully managed NoSQL database service. This distribution involves transparent multi-master replication. It is designed to ensure single-digit millisecond response times. This guarantees speed at any scale. As it is fully managed, it does database administration by automatic management, updates, and patching. Cosmos DB is also a multi-model with wire protocol-compatible API endpoints.
Azure Logic Apps
It helps you to build powerful integration solutions in no time. It can help in connecting data, apps, and devices anywhere. Furthermore, the business-to-business (B2B) capabilities of Logic Apps help in easier working with trading partners through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) standards.
Azure Active Directory
This service provides the user id and password management for users logging to enter in at the same time. The facility of single sign-on can help users gain simpler access to their apps from any location. It helps the employees sign in and access resources from both external and internal resources.
Azure API Management
It helps to publish, manage, analyze, and secure the APIs in just a few minutes. API management provides the core competencies to ensure a successful API program through developer engagement, business insights, analytics, security, and protection. One can use Azure API Management to take any backend and launch a full-fledged API program based on it. The best part about this is the security which keeps all the APIs protected with the help of IP filters, tokens, and keys.
Azure Content Delivery Network
This service is designed to run in integration with a number of other services including web apps, Azure cloud services, and storage while providing a secure delivery across the globe. It provides the benefit of advanced analytics which can help in obtaining insights into customer workflows and business requirements.
Azure Site Recovery
Azure site recovery provides a built-in disaster recovery service for your business. Helping you to keep your maintenance costs low, this service paves the path for you to minimize downtime and even test the disaster recovery plan without hammering the actual work. Microsoft has bagged the position of a leader in the native Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) category in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service by Gartner.
Due to the colossal array of apps and services available through Azure, the platform provides a unique opportunity for developers. Depending on which part of Azure is being used to develop and deploy apps and services, a range of programming languages is supported by .NET, #C, Python, Java, PHP, Node.js, PowerShell, and Go.
Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform. It provides a broad range of cloud services, including computing, analytics, storage and networking.
Is Azure the same as SQL?
No, Azure SQL Database is not the same as SQL Server. While they are both relational database management systems, there are key differences between the two. Azure SQL Database is a cloud-based service, while SQL Server is an on-premises software.
Is Azure a programming language?
Azure programming language is a general-purpose programming language developed by Microsoft for their Azure Cloud platform.
Is Azure a Python?
All Microsoft Azure services are available by using Python. Here are some types of activities that you can perform by using Python and Microsoft Azure: Remote debugging on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.
Why Python is used in Azure?
Python can quickly and easily build, train, host, and deploy models from any Python environment with Azure services for data science and machine learning. Or bring in pre-built AI solutions to deliver cutting-edge experiences to your Python apps.
Can I learn Azure without coding?
You do not need coding skills to use Microsoft Azure.
Which language is best for Azure?
Azure supports the most popular programming languages in use today, including Python, JavaScript, Java, .NET and Go.
What language is Azure built in?
The company's heavy use of Java and continuing promotion of the language for Azure computing comes even though the language is similar in many ways to its own flagship programming language: C#.
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