4 Reasons Why a Developer Chooses Azure?

Jennifer Balsom
4 min readJun 28, 2019

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Microsoft Azure

Building your organization’s IT base is a critical process and requires great attention. While doing so, one must ensure that only those services are picked, which align best with your enterprise’s needs. The idea is to choose a system that fits the requirements of your business. That’s where Microsoft Azure has the edge.

Microsoft Azure is growing and growing fast. Azure’s rising popularity would not have surprised us if it was working as a monopoly. However, that’s certainly not the case. It is competing with established cloud computing platforms and still making its mark.

The following numbers reveal a lot about its excellent growth story:

· A thousand new users are moving to Microsoft Azure every day.
· 360,000+ organizations are adopting the Azure cloud every year. (Source: Microsoft)
· Azure is growing at a highly impressive 154% YOY growth rate. Revenues rose by 76% in the last quarter of 2018.
· It is now used by over 57% of Fortune 500 companies.

Azure is gaining worldwide acceptability amongst developers, and for many, it is the go-to choose:

· Developers are now able to create cloud applications in Visual Studio and connect projects to an Azure server.

· For Windows developers, Azure provides smooth integration between development desktop and Microsoft Azure cloud instances. They can develop software projects and manage them easily in the cloud.

· It requires a smaller number of on-site resources to support a developer team.

Let’s understand a developer’s perspective and find out why many developers are willing to bet on Microsoft Azure. We’ll also explain how Microsoft Azure Training Courses from NetCom Learning could be highly beneficial for you. And make Career in Cloud with Microsoft Azure.

Reasons for Choosing Microsoft Azure: Developers’ Views

1. Easy Integration with Visual Studio:

· Azure provides smooth integration with your Visual Studio projects.
· One merely needs to create a web app and copy the connection information into the project.
· Azure can be used for change control and promoting code directly from the development computer.
· Microsoft provides a web app and a web app with SQL for a simple web application.
· One does not need to be limited to a Windows environment. While creating a web app, Microsoft Azure asks if you wish to use Windows or Linux.
· While working on Visual Studio with an Azure connection, you can check, edit files and check them back in as you code.

2. Your Portal or the Dashboard:

· The dashboard is called “your portal” by Azure.
· With Azure, unlike local environments where you are required to provide various resources for one application to build an application, everything you need to create an application is readily available.
· One does not need to buy multiple services like SSL and database software.
· You can click the service you require and click “Create” in the Azure portal.
· If you have chosen “pay as you go,” you only need to pay for the resources used.
· Developers can build services, start virtual servers, and host WordPress sites.

3. Convenient VM Creation for Third-Party Software Testing:

· While testing an application from a customer, Azure VM lets you keep the software off your local machine, and it’s shielded from your local network too.
· It avoids any chances of your computer crashing due to a customer’s software and you losing the valuable data. At the same time, it ensures there’s no possibility of anything searching your home network and storage.
· You can install VMs on your local desktop, use them to install the software, and can later destroy the VM when you are through.
· Azure also offers numerous pre-installed operating systems and frameworks one can choose from.
· The following platforms can be installed on Microsoft Azure VM: Citrix XenDesktop, Kiteworks, Suse Linux, Kali Linux, Jira, Magento, WordPress, Cisco CSR, and SQL Server cluster.

4. WordPress on Microsoft Azure:

· With Azure, you get a pre-installed option to create an app with WordPress. One does not need to use a separate shared host.
· You get security from standard hacks looking for .htaccess and Apache vulnerabilities.
· Let’s you keep all your web services at one place.
· It costs to host the WordPress site; however, as you only pay for traffic that hits the service, it could be more useful if you have a high-traffic blog.
· Azure offers Insights services to monitor WordPress without a third-party application.
· You get monitoring, infrastructures like load balancing and SSL.
· Azure is suitable for the enterprise that keeps detailed statistics on site usage and requires security from script kiddies.

Microsoft Azure gives you the first 30 days without any charge. For an enterprise, Azure lets you integrate Active Directory Services and ensures your network expands into Azure’s cloud IaaS.

You don’t need to create a separate portal that can be controlled with individual security settings. It removes any possibility of accidentally exposing your data from incorrect security settings.

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Jennifer Balsom
Jennifer Balsom

Written by Jennifer Balsom

Product Manager - Cybersecurity CompTIA, EC-council & (ISC)2. For more info. visit, https://www.netcomlearning.com/vendors/CompTIA-training-courses.phtml

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