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Ayo Badejoko
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Core Architectural components of Azure

Introduction
Azure is a cloud computing platform powered by Microsoft that helps to build business solutions to meet organizational needs. Azure enables businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage applications and services through Microsoft’s global network of data centers.
It offers a wide range of cloud services, including computing power, storage, databases, machine learning, networking, analytics, and more.
Organizations can leverage Azure services to innovate, enhance efficiency, and achieve scalability based on pocket strengths.

Core Architectures

The architecture of Microsoft Azure includes components such as compute, storage, networking, databases, identity and access management, security, and monitoring.

The architecture of Microsoft Azure comprises data centers housing physical servers, virtualized hardware, and a complex network infrastructure, facilitating the deployment and operation of cloud-based applications and services.

Azure architecture adopts a distributed, scalable, and elastic approach, allowing for on-demand resource allocation and dynamic scaling, unlike traditional IT infrastructures that often rely on fixed hardware configurations.

With Microsoft Azure, the hardware instructions are emulated by mapping of software instructions, this way, virtualized hardware can perform functions like “real” hardware by the use of software and the architecture of Microsoft azure is run on a server collection which is huge and networking hardware which are capable of hosting a collection of applications that are complex and can control the software operation and configuration on these servers.

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