Is Office 365 the same as Azure?
Table of Contents
- Is Office 365 the same as Azure?
- Does Microsoft run on Azure?
- What platform does Office 365 run on?
- Is Office 365 SaaS or PaaS?
- What is the difference between ADFS and Azure AD?
- What is the difference between Office 365 and Microsoft 365?
- Does Microsoft Azure require coding?
- How does Azure work with Microsoft Office 365?
- What do you need to know about Microsoft 365?
- Are there any Microsoft services running on azure?
- Do you need Azure express route for Office 365?

Is Office 365 the same as Azure?
Microsoft Azure is another enterprise cloud platform, with a much wider range of capabilities. Unlike Office 365, which is a software as a service (SaaS) product, Azure has IaaS and PaaS components.
Does Microsoft run on Azure?
Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Windows Azure, is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform. It provides a range of cloud services, including compute, analytics, storage and networking.
What platform does Office 365 run on?
The Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans combine the familiar Microsoft Office desktop suite with cloud-based versions of Microsoft's next-generation communications and collaboration services—including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Office for the web, and Microsoft Skype for Business Online—to ...
Is Office 365 SaaS or PaaS?
Office 365 is SaaS, which provides an online version of MS Office Suite (Office Web Apps) along with SharePoint Server, Exchange Server and Lync Server. Windows Azure is both IaaS and PaaS, which makes the Windows Server operating system and other features available as services.
What is the difference between ADFS and Azure AD?
AAD mainly serves as a cloud-based user management tool for Azure services as well as offers SSO capabilities for web applications. In fact, it authenticates users to their applications in much the same way as AD FS. The difference is that AAD authenticates via the cloud and AD FS authenticates on-prem.
What is the difference between Office 365 and Microsoft 365?
Office 365 is a cloud-based suite of productivity apps like Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and more. Microsoft 365 is a bundle of services including Office 365, plus several other services including Windows 10 Enterprise.
Does Microsoft Azure require coding?
Azure as a platform can be learned without knowing any programming at all. Although if you wish to deploy an application to Azure then you may need to write some configuration code or a deployment script. But for normal infrastructure management and other tasks you can use Azure.
How does Azure work with Microsoft Office 365?
This article applies to both Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Office 365 Enterprise. Microsoft 365 uses Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to manage user identities behind the scenes.
What do you need to know about Microsoft 365?
For more information about Microsoft 365 and Azure AD, see Microsoft 365 identity models. You can grant individual apps access to your Microsoft 365 data, such as mail, calendars, contacts, users, groups, files, and folders.
Are there any Microsoft services running on azure?
Five years ago, Microsoft still was not running some of its major services on its own Azure cloud. Since then, the company has made a concerted effort to change this situation and it's closing in on being able to claim all its first-party services, including Office 365, Xbox Live and Bing services, are running on Azure.
Do you need Azure express route for Office 365?
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is not supported in Azure Express Route. Microsoft authorization is required to use ExpressRoute for Office 365. Microsoft reviews every customer request and authorizes ExpressRoute for Office 365 usage when a customer's regulatory requirement mandates direct connectivity.