Choosing a cloud computing service has become an increasingly important step for businesses of all levels. This is because computing done locally is not viable anymore, and it is much cheaper to choose a cloud computing service anyways.

During the recent years, there has been a tremendous surge in the demand of cloud computing services, and a similar increase in the amount of such services available globally.

Microsoft Azure is one of the most prominent cloud computing services, and has become so popular that even government agencies like the IT Government Contractor are moving towards Azure!

Here are some reasons why Microsoft Azure is good for your business:

Even the federal agencies are using it

More and more federal agencies are moving towards using Azure fedRAMP to make them more secure, and fast. In the past, all cloud computing was to be done through AWS fedRAMP but it seems that Azure fedRAMP has turned out to be a much more intuitive and efficient alternative.

Global scale

Azure is available on a global scale, and has data centers scattered throughout the world. This means that your business will have a secure platform to work on. Azure promises a service level agreement of 99.95%, which is higher than any other cloud computing services available ever.

Provides both IaaS and PaaS in one

If your business requires a lot of customization, and requires full-stack applications to be run on the cloud, Azure has you covered. It is a unique combination of both Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service, offering a very high level of performance and compatibility in one.

 There aren’t many providers that provide infrastructure as a service on such a dynamic scale.

Cost efficient

Many government agencies, like the Pentagon, use Azure purely because of Azure’s ability to pay as you go payment plan. Because of the recent changes in the government’s several agencies’ budgets, more and more agencies are trying to shift over to Azure because of their convenient payment plan that is very cost efficient.
These plans are also available for businesses of any level, and Azure only bills its customers for the services that they use.

Easy to learn to use

Azure uses an intuitive, simple to use modules and prepackaged environments that are already compliant. If you also have programmers that know Visual BASIC, C#, C++ and various other languages that any developer must have learnt to use. This means that your business can easily hire a developer for your business solutions, and then be able to develop all sorts of applications, whether they be full-stack or just simple, for your business in a cost-effective manner.

This is one of the reasons why so many government agencies are using Azure too. It’s integration with Visual Studio is just phenomenal.

Conclusion

If you are looking for a new cloud computing solution, or want to shift to a fedRAMP compliant platform , we would recommend that you shift to Azure’s cloud computing solution. Microsoft offers amazing customer support, as well as affordable services with effective performance.