Azure Platform Service

Azure offers three main cloud computing platform services:

1. SaaS – Software as a Service
2. IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service
3. PaaS – Platform as a Service

SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS feature a multitenancy architecture where the infrastructure and the resources share virtualization technology and remote access to the business services.

Azure Pass: PaaS includes a complete infrastructure of servers, storages, networking, and middleware development tools like business intelligence services (BI), database management systems, etc. A complete platform is offered in PaaS in which the client can host their applications without the need to worry about the maintenance of the servers and its operating systems.

Azure PaaS is ideal for but not limited to:

• Development teams in businesses who want to significantly reduce the time it takes their applications time to get on the market.
• Organizations that have high operational costs that want to lessen the administration needs for a set of applications.
• Organizations that require critical support metrics for usage and chargeback.
• Organizations that want to slash costs spent on IT, and reduce database elements and operating systems complexity while increasing scalability.
• Businesses that want to improve the quality of service of their company can greatly benefit from PaaS.

IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)

Typical IaaS services are Container Service and Virtual Machines. These allow you to have a lot of control over how you run them but also require you to be responsible for things like the OS, Antivirus and Load Balancing. Because of this, you and your team can spend less time working on adding business value.

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)

Examples of SaaS services are things like Azure IoT Suite and Office 365. SaaS is the highest abstraction level and allows you to just use the application, you don’t even have to build it. You just configure it. No need to worry about the OS or even scaling the app. This allows you to work on business value, but offers you little control over your application.

For software developers, PaaS is a great cloud computing type to use. You have enough control to just work on your application and tweak it to be just right and you don’t have to worry about all of the operations stuff. Things just run without worrying about OS patches or load balancing.

Azure has a very strong PaaS offering, which is very attractive for developers. This article will discuss the top Azure PaaS services for developers that can make your application better.

Main services of Azure

Azure provides dozens of services, but the main ones are

• Virtual machines
• App services
• Storage

We will talk about them in the next charters