"Azure was born as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, providing the plumbing for your applications so you didn't have to think about infrastructure, as it was all automated and hidden by APIs and configured through a web portal. Over the years, things have evolved, and Azure now supports virtual infrastructures and a command line where you can manage applications as well as its own infrastructure-as-code (IaC) development tools and language."
"Despite all this, the vision of a serverless Azure has been a key driver for many of its innovations, from its Functions on-demand compute platform, to the massive data environment of Fabric and the hosted scalable orchestration platform that underpins the microservice Azure Container Instances. This vision is key to many of the new tools and services Russinovich talked about, delivering a platform that allows developers to concentrate on code."
Azure originated as a platform-as-a-service that automated infrastructure and configured resources through APIs and a web portal. It has evolved to support virtual infrastructures, command-line management, and an infrastructure-as-code language and tools. The platform's serverless vision has driven innovations including Functions for on-demand compute, Fabric for large-scale data, and Azure Container Instances for hosted, scalable container orchestration. Azure Container Instances provide Kubernetes-like benefits without requiring developers to operate Kubernetes, handling container lifecycle and scaling. New hardware and infrastructure features remain important to support cloud-native models, and understanding underlying infrastructure abstractions is essential because they constrain what code can accomplish.
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