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Understand Microsoft Azure and database-as-a-service concepts

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Understand Microsoft Azure and database-as-a-service concepts

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So with this lesson, we want to take a look at sort of an introduction to Azure. What is Azure? It's Microsoft's service -- Software as a Service or cloud services platforms. It's sort of all those things. It's essentially a way for you to get servers or databases or even Windows machines without having to physically purchase a Windows machine and install SQL on it and set up databases. Now, if you're not familiar with Software as a Service or cloud services, frankly, what they are, I mean, some people get their head around it and everyone says like, "Oh, your photos on your phone, they're all backed up to the cloud" and this is all the cloud. Well, what is the cloud? It's not magical. It's literally just physical servers somewhere on the Internet that you don't own. So it's not as though the photos on your phone are being backed up to some magical space, they're going to a server and ultimately being written to a hard drive in someone's data center. The same thing applies when you…

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