It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

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Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.