The Windows Azure platform delivers a rich development experience, automated service management and pay-as-you-go pricing — all backed by service-level agreements and support. The Windows Azure Platform enables businesses to run critical applications with a higher performance-price ratio by running them on the services platform’s data centers on a pay–as-you-go basis. Whether you are building new applications, augmenting established systems, or connecting with trading partners, you can take advantage of the Windows Azure Platform to do it quickly, inexpensively, and across the Web and a range of connected devices.

The Windows Azure Platform provides the ability to create compelling experiences on the web and combines the power of the internet with a multitude of devices for new applications. It provides a quick on-ramp to authoring and running applications by hosting them in Microsoft data centers and affordably fits user needs by offering a scalable infrastructure in a pay as you go business model. The services platform can also extend and breathe new life into existing investments by providing cloud capabilities to on-premises applications.

In three words Windows Azure Platform can be caracterized by: “scalability, durability, availability”. With one click and minimum financial costs you can increase the business infrastructure you need for your deployed application, data stored in the cloud will be always available for the end-user and also the platform provides a mechanism that assures you that no data will be lost.