Solve your business problems with proven combinations of Azure services and related products. Whether you’re coming from Microsoft world and are familiar with its products and services, or no, you can use Azure to build a reliable and high performance cloud infrastructure.

Virtual Machines

Deploy virtual machines featuring up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory. Get up to 3.7 million local storage IOPS per VM. Take advantage of up to 30 Gbps Ethernet and the cloud’s first deployment of 200 Gbps InfiniBand.

• Choose Linux or Windows. Deploy your own VM image or download images from the Azure Marketplace
• Keep your budget in check with low-cost, per-second billing. You only pay for the compute time you use
• Scale from one to thousands of VM instances in minutes with VM Scale Sets
• Encrypt sensitive data, protect VMs from malicious threats, secure network traffic, and meet regulatory and compliance requirements
• Reduce costs – up to 72 per cent compared to pay-as-you-go prices – with term pricing through Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RIs).
• Ensure compliance and deploy applications to production faster across your entire business with Azure Blueprints

Databases

Wherever your data is, Microsoft Azure will help you unlock its potential. Support rapid growth and save more time for innovation with a portfolio of secure, enterprise-grade, fully managed database services that support open-source database engines.

Azure supports following database types:

• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• MariaDB
• NoSQL

Azure database services are fully managed, freeing up valuable time you’d otherwise spend managing your database so you can focus on new ways to delight your users and unlock opportunities. Enterprise-grade performance with built-in high availability means you can scale quickly and reach global distribution without worrying about costly downtime.

And developers can take advantage of industry-leading innovations such as built-in security with automatic monitoring and threat detection, automatic tuning for improved performance, and turnkey global distribution. On top of all of this, your investment is protected by financially backed SLAs.

Storage

Get secure cloud storage that protects your data infrastructure while you build apps and create better services for your customers. Integrate your on-premises data with your cloud data to form crucial insights. Scale globally and run your most demanding workloads while meeting compliance and privacy requirements.

Storage options include File Storage, Blob Storage, Archive Storage, Data Lake Storage, Azure Backup, and Archive Storage. Very similar to offerings of other cloud providers.

Azure DNS

Use Azure DNS to host your Domain Name System (DNS) domains in Azure. Manage your DNS records using the same credentials and billing and support contract as your other Azure services. Seamlessly integrate Azure-based services with corresponding DNS updates and streamline your end-to-end deployment process.

• Azure DNS uses a global network of name servers to provide fast responses to DNS queries.
• The Microsoft global network of name servers has the scale and redundancy to give you ultra-high availability for your domains.
• When you add a new DNS record, the Azure DNS name servers are updated in a few seconds, so you don’t have to wait long before that DNS record can be used.
• Azure DNS Private Zones provides a simple, reliable, secure DNS service to manage and resolve names in a VNET without the need for you to create and manage custom DNS solution.

These are just a few of the most popular Azure offerings. There are 70+ other services which can make running and managing your applications in cloud a breeze.