Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed and Microsoft partner hosted data centers. It provides both PaaS and IaaS services and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks

Azure Storage

Azure storage is a unified storage service available to Azure users which provides highly scalable, durable and globally available storage for various application needs. Azure storage is offered in four forms:

• Azure Blobs, an object storage system, similar to Amazon's S3
• Azure Tables, a database system
• Azure Queues, a messaging queue for applications
• Azure Files, a file system.