Microsoft Azure

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What Is Microsoft Azure? Services, Pricing and How to Get Started

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft’s cloud, where you rent servers, storage, databases and AI tools and pay only for what you use. This guide shows how Azure is organized, the services most people start with, the Azure portal, how pricing and the free account work, and how to get started from a Windows PC.