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Microsoft Windows Azure platform is an Internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in highly secure, geo-redundant Microsoft data centers. It offers a flexible, familiar development environment to create cloud applications and services. Using the Windows Azure platform, organizations can easily deploy applications in the cloud-based infrastructure without incurring huge costs involved in planning, purchasing, configuring, and maintaining the hardware and software required to deploy the applications. This snack introduces the features and benefits of the Windows Azure platform. This snack also compares the key characteristics of the Windows Azure platform with other cloud-computing vendors.