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Founded in 2010 , Azure is Microsoft ’ s public cloud computing platform . With 160 active data centres in 60 regions around the world – more than any other cloud provider – the Azure cloud platform is now made up of more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help bring new solutions to life , solving today ’ s challenges and shaping the future . Its cloud services include compute , analytics , storage and networking . Headquartered in Redmond , Washington , USA , Azure ’ s robust infrastructure and comprehensive suite of services allows it to offer a secure and scalable cloud platform for deploying applications , storing data , and accessing computing resources .

The Azure platform , Microsoft says , can be up to 93 % more energy efficient than using a traditional enterprise data centre . Microsoft has been carbon neutral since 2012 and is committed to being carbon negative by 2030 , with the commitment by 2050 to remove all the carbon it ’ s directly emitted since its founding in 1975 .

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