Microsoft Azure is a
leading cloud hosting platform which was launched by Microsoft. The main purpose behind introducing the platform was to help businesses deploy and run applications or services through a wide network of datacenters managed by Microsoft. The Azure therefore offers both IaaS and PaaS solutions and can support a variety of programming languages, frameworks and tools which includes both the Microsoft-specific systems and third-part systems.
As many as 233,780 companies are known to use Microsoft Azure for their
public cloud hosting solutions. These are primarily based in the US and mainly belong to the IT industry. This platform is typically used by companies having about 10-50 workers and earning about 1-10 million dollars as revenue.
Besides computer software industry, this platform caters to a wide variety of industries like healthcare and hospitals, construction businesses, IT services, non-profit organizations, real estate, financial services, retailing industry, marketing and advertising, and management consulting.
The biggest companies using
Microsoft Azure are Pixar, Apple iCloud, Easy jet, Xerox, Samsung, Boeing, eBay, Diebold, 3M, NBC, Aston Martin, Mazda, Alaska Airlines, BMW, Trek bikes, LG< Symantec, Dell, NetApp, Fujitsu etc.