When most people think of Azure, the two things that usually come to mind are Microsoft’s large public cloud and running virtual machines (VMs). The reality is that Azure is a cloud platform that runs over 200 products and services. It was developed over a decade and a half ago and has matured over that timeframe. Currently, its capabilities include software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). (more…)