Azure—a collection of cloud services from Microsoft—offers capabilities and tools that can help you efficiently and securely build, manage, and deploy applications through a network of data centers around the globe. In this course, get an introduction to Azure with an emphasis on what's important to developers. Instructor Jesse Liberty discusses the various supporting services, and demonstrates how to create an ASP.NET application deployed to Azure. In addition, he explains how to spin up a virtual machine, and looks at how to create and trigger Azure functions.