Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web—for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money.
With Azure, you can
- Microsoft is also the only vendor positioned as a Leader across Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Application Platform as a Service, and Cloud Storage Services for the second consecutive year, which provides the feature that any developer or IT professional can be productive with Azure
- Azure is an open and flexible cloud service platform which supports the broadest selection of operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, tools, databases and devices.
- Azure easily integrates with your existing IT environment through the largest network of secure private connections, hybrid database and storage solutions, and data residency and encryption features — so your assets stay right where you need them.
- Azure’s pay-as-you-go services can quickly scale up or down to match demand, so you only pay for what you use.
- Azure has made an industry-leading commitment to the protection and privacy of your data.
- Azure runs on a worldwide network of Microsoft-managed datacenters across 22 regions—more countries and regions than Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud combined.
- Azure’s predictive analytics services make smarter decisions, improve customer service and uncover new business possibilities from your structured, unstructured and streaming Internet of Things data.
- From small dev-test projects to global product launches, Azure is engineered to handle any workload. More than 66 percent of Fortune 500 companies rely on Azure, which offers enterprise grade SLAs on services.
Who are using Azure
From broadcasting the Olympics to building massively multiplayer online games, Azure customers are doing some amazing things. Here are more things you can do:
Heineken uses the cloud to reach 10.5 million consumers in global marketing campaign
3M Speeds Mobile-App Development and Gains Real-Time Insight with Cloud Solution
Mazda Gains Better Data Protection, 95 Percent Lower Costs Using Hybrid Cloud Storage
NBC News Picks Windows Azure over Amazon to Host Push Notifications to Mobile Apps
We create SDKs that connect to Azure services through REST wrappers and interfaces in the languages of your choice including .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, Golang, Ruby and others.
Microsoft's commitment to openness and collaboration is ingrained in our day-to-day approach to doing business with partners around the world.This commitment influences how web are helping customers transition to the cloud and make the most of IT trends that can boost flexibility, drive efficiency, and improve analytics.
To get started with using open source languages or open source softwares on Azure, below useful resources for your reference.
If you are an open source language developer
Please refer to the specified language developer centers for a quick searching about the SDKs, tutorials and documents of Azure.
- PHP
- You can create, configure, and deploy a PHP web app to Azure.
- You can also quickly build a WordPress site with the existing template from Azure Marketplace.
- Java
- Python
- Node.js
- Ruby
Meanwhile, the documents, SDKs, and code samples are all open source. Pull, push, and commit to contribute on GitHub.
If you are looking for an open source software/server on Azure
Your online store for thousands of certified, open source, and community software applications, developer services, and database pre-configured for Microsoft Azure. Download, deploy, and get more done.
Refer to the Azure marketplace to find and start the particular one when you need.
More about the open source software on Azure, please refer to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/open-source/.