Azure
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Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service operated by Microsoft. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports different programming languages, tools, and frameworks.
Azure could be an additional hosting platform to focus on for us and our customer projects. Since our move to the Microsoft Office 365 platform, Azure seems like a good fit in regard to ease of access. Additionally, since Azure is providing lots of ML/AI services, it makes sense to rely on those services instead of self-hosting (and scaling) them.