Cloud platforms are complex systems that provide ways to scale web applications across multiple server instances based on the traffic the application is receiving. They also offer an abstraction of the server environment in a way that developers do not need to deal with the hardware and software architecture of the system, but only with the resources and services. This is an advantage because with this in place, the developer does not actually need to configure and manage the server; however, at the same time, it also proves to be a disadvantage, since not all software components are able to work in such systems.

Azure is a cloud-hosting platform by Microsoft that enables developers to quickly build, deploy, and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. It is tightly integrated in Visual Studio; also, the Python language is covered by this service.

We are going to see how to deploy a Django project on Azure...