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Microsoft launched the Azure service just over eight years ago in a bid to play catchup with Amazon Web Services. And it has succeeded. Azure is now the No. 2 cloud service, behind AWS.

Microsoft eventually plans to move "all Intune functionality" to the Azure portal, according to an Intune in Azure introduction document. Right now, not everything is supported in the preview, though.

At the ongoing Build 2017 developer conference, Microsoft has announced the Azure Cloud Shell, which brings support for Bash in the Azure Portal, with PowerShell support expected to be added later.

Layer one is the base Azure operating system. This is what used to be codenamed "Red Dog." Red Dog was designed by a team of operating-system experts at Microsoft, led by Amitabh Srivastava ...