Windows Azure, which was later renamed as Microsoft Azure in 2014, is a cloud computing platform, designed by Microsoft to successfully build, deploy, and manage apppcations and services through a global network of datacenters. This tutorial explains various features of this flexible platform and provides a step-by-step description of how to use the same.

Audience

This tutorial has been designed for software developers who are keen on developing best-in-class apppcations using this open and advanced platform of Windows Azure.

Prerequisites

To learn Windows Azure, you need to be famipar with the Windows environment and have a basic knowledge of cloud computing.