Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables organizations to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters using various programming languages, tools and environments. IT infrastructure capabilities are rapidly growing due to the unlimited public cloud resources. For small organizations and IT startups, Microsoft Azure provides an opportunity to reduce infrastructure costs, quickly deploy new applications and provide access to them. Large companies that already have a large-scale local infrastructure for their own department of developing and maintaining business applications can also take advantage of Microsoft Azure by moving some tasks and applications to the cloud.