The Advantages of Microsoft Azure for Businesses Apps

With the evolution of IT services, the industry came to introduce the concept of cloud computing. Being the pioneer of the IT industry, it was about time Microsoft took a leap into this. This led to the introduction of Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service that can be used for creating, testing, and managing applications through a global network of data centers managed by Microsoft. It supports numerous programming languages, tools and frameworks which include those that are specific to Microsoft and even third party software and systems.

The benefits of Microsoft Azure are plenty. A few of them are as follows:

1. Speed

Speed is an important aspect for all businesses. It is a key marker of competitive leverage and performance. In terms of speed, Azure beats the other major cloud services. Azure provides an environment for high speed application development, deployment, operation and scalability. It provides a lot of resources for developers to achieve this. For instance, if you hire dot net developers to develop an application, they will have access to a lot of pre-built dot net components from the marketplace which can be used for development. 

2. Security

Security is another crucial aspect for a business and Azure was created with security as its first priority. Microsoft ensures that its security framework is compliant is up to date with the regulatory compliance requirements. Apart from this, Azure has a token system that is used by applications to determine whether a user is allowed access to the particular application or not. This eliminates the chances of someone else accessing the application in unacceptable ways.

3. Deep Insights and Analytics

One thing that Microsoft Azure always ensures is that you have a deep understanding of your application. It provides a deep insight into your application with its advanced analytics system. It provides you with a detailed insight about your application's health, performance, response times, CPU and memory utilization, error trends etc. All of this collectively aids you to make well informed decisions in development to ensure the application remains at its highest quality. 

4. Global Reach

As mentioned earlier, Microsoft is a pioneer of the IT industry and has its data centers spread across the world. this allows businesses to deploy their applications manually or automatically anywhere around the world on any of the data centers. This gives Azure another advantage of being in accordance with the performance and utilization requirements of the region the application is being hosted in. The user experience of the application is not at all affected by the location.

5. Cost Efficiency

Cost is another crucial aspect for businesses and another great advantage of Azure. Firstly, since you will be using the resources in the cloud, your cost of infrastructure setup and maintenance is reduced drastically. Secondly, the best thing about Microsoft Azure in terms of its cost is its pricing model. Azure makes sure that businesses only pay as much as they use and nothing more. The cost of creating, debugging or testing your application depends on the time of your usage and follows a pay per hour model. For the storage services, it follows a pay per month model which is based on the size of the space used.

Collectively, Azure is no doubt one of the best cloud computing services available. There are a lot more advantages of Microsoft Azure apart from these which become major points of leverage over others. The ones given above are just a select few. This is why Microsoft Azure is the fastest growing cloud computing service even today while others remain at a stable level.