Azure is a public cloud service platform that supports a broad selection of operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, tools, databases, and devices. It can run Linux containers with Docker integration, build apps with JavaScript, Python, .NET, PHP, Java, and Node.js, and build backends for iOS, Android, and Windows devices.

Azure public cloud services support the same technologies that millions of developers and IT professionals already rely on and trust. When you build on or migrate IT assets to a public cloud service provider, you rely on that organization’s abilities to protect your applications and data with the services and controls they provide to manage the security of your cloud-based assets.