Azure compute
When Microsoft first introduced Azure, they started with Platform-as-a-Service where they have Web Role and Worker Role. But, gradually, they started the Infrastructure services and defined the VM Role. Since April 2015, they have replaced all these roles, and given a new look to the Azure computing model, which is classified into these four components:
- Virtual machines
- Cloud service
- App Service
- Service Fabric
Virtual machines
A virtual machines is a part of IaaS and allows the user to provision any machine running on the cloud; the user can remotely connect to that machine and do whatever they want. With virtual machines, you can also manage resources such as CPU, memory, and disks (HDD or SSD), and all are quite easy to set up using the cloud portal. Similar to virtual machines, Microsoft has also introduced the concept of containers. Containers are light-weight application hosts, which refers to virtualized resources such as filesystem, windows registry, and others. Containers...