In this chapter, we looked at and discussed some of the terminology around the cloud. From the services offered to some of the specific features available in Microsoft Azure, you should be able to differentiate between a public and private cloud. You can also now differentiate between some of the public cloud offerings. Then, at the end of this chapter, we looked at some of the specific Microsoft Azure features and services.

In the next set of chapters, we will take a look specifically at how we can make use of some of these infrastructures and platforms as service offerings.