What is Microsoft Azure used for?

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What is Microsoft Azure used for?

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Azure is an online cloud service provider from Microsoft. It provides cloud services such as storage, computation, machine learning, application lifecycle management, application deployment, networking, etc. 

The major benefit of using Azure over an on-premise solution is that you only have to pay based on your usage, so you can opt in or out of using any of the services in Azure quite easily. These services are also managed by Microsoft so the developers do not need to worry about managing and troubleshooting the internal components of these services.

Azure can be used for a wide variety of purposes, based on your use case. You can use Azure to store your data, create a virtual network, offload some heavy computation, and build and deploy machine learning.

If you are planning on learning Azure, as a beginner it would be better to start with an online course that teaches you the basics and gives you hands-on experience.

You can either take this Azure Training which will teach you the basics of Azure or if you are just a beginner and wish to get your feet wet you can watch this end-to-end Azure tutorial.