Microsoft Azure
There are over 600 services that fall under the Azure umbrella, but broadly speaking, it is a web-based platform on which applications and services can be built, tested, managed, and deployed. A wide range of Microsoft’s software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) products are hosted on Azure. Azure offers three core areas of functionality; Virtual Machines, cloud services, and app services.
Key Features
- Secure Networks: Azure Virtual Network Gateway allows you to build an encrypted IPsec tunnel from the user side. You can also segment instances within multiple deployments in one customer subscription using private IPs and IP subnets that act as a virtual firewall.
- Malware Protection: MS Azure security features include various integrated options to protect against malware. You can enable the antimalware option in the Azure management portal.
- Access Management: Microsoft provides you Azure Multi-Factor Authentication service that you can also use as a standalone server during on premise integrations. What’s more? Microsoft allows you to conduct your own penetration tests to test their security measures.
- Auto scaling & High Availability: If you need more servers for your application due to its traffic increase on some days, you can provide certain rules of scaling up or down. Azure will scale up or down according to the rules you have mentioned.
- IDE integration: You can download Azure SDKs on IDEs like Visual Studio and X-code, and this helps the developer to concentrate more on developing a quality application rather than other aspects like deploying and running on the cloud.