@Emily Johnson Apologies for the delay in response and all the inconvenience caused because of the issue.
I do understand that you want to understand about Azure and its functionality now since this is a very vast topic I would keep it simple and short for you to understand.
The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your choice.Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service from Microsoft. Azure offers a range of software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) options for deploying applications and services on Microsoft-managed data center infrastructure.
Some of the functions are:
- Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments and startups.
- On-premises, across multiple clouds and at the edge—we will meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with tools and services designed for hybrid cloud.
- You have choices. With a commitment to open source and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want and deploy where you want to.
- Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow. You can refer to this as well for more info.
Some of the services offered are:
- Azure Machine Learning
- Compute
- Containers
- Internet of Things
- App Service
- Databases
- Security
- Storage
You can check over 200+ services here as well.
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