Azure Services

Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform that provides computing power, storage, databases, and other services over the internet — instead of running your own physical servers, you rent and scale resources on demand.

Core services

The basic building blocks include virtual machines for compute power, various storage services for files and data, and managed databases that automate much of the maintenance work, such as backups and scaling.

Why cloud skills matter

More and more production and measurement data is being collected and analyzed centrally in the cloud. Being comfortable with cloud services makes it easier to automate analysis and share data across teams without maintaining your own server infrastructure.

Repository management with Azure Repos

Beyond compute and storage, Azure DevOps offers Azure Repos — Git-based version control for software projects. Teams manage their source code centrally there, work on new features in separate branches, and merge changes back through pull requests in a controlled way.

Team collaboration

Branch policies ensure changes only land in the main branch after code review and passing automated checks. That makes repository management a core responsibility whenever multiple people work together on qualification or automation software — from managing access permissions to keeping a traceable version history.

Where it fits

Alongside AWS and Google Cloud, Azure is one of the three major cloud providers, and it's especially common at companies with existing Microsoft infrastructure, since it integrates closely with services like Active Directory and Office 365.