Is It Only For Windows Apps And Services?
Absolutely not. Microsoft Azure offers full support for open source technology so you
can pick and choose the technologies and tools that suit you. You can use your own
operating system, your own device, your own data source to run your applications.
Microsoft Azure is a flexible and open cloud platform that provides support for multiple
programming languages, operating systems, tools, frameworks, databases and devices –
whatever your requirements are, Azure has the answer. If you are using Linux, PHP or
Java web application platforms, Azure provides full IaaS support, including full
development and testing resources for Linux and all your open source components.
With Azure Marketplace, you will find the highest quality support for all of the most
popular Linux distributions, cover all your mobile backend requirements with the
Marketplace template and Parse Server, and build your mobile and web applications
with support for Python, Node.js, Java and PHP web programming languages.
With one managed platform you can run your Windows and Linux applications, and
scale them too, easily and with little effort on your behalf. And, using what you already
have, the applications you already built, you can team up with Azure in multiple ways:
- Use Azure Active Directory to add identity and access management to any
application, regardless of platform - Use Azure Data Lake Analytics to gain insights
- Connect PHP portals to SharePoint sites
- Support .NET applications with Linux batch processes