Organisations, regardless of industry, choose to use Microsoft Azure because of the following reasons:

1. No expensive infrastructure costs.
2. Pay only for what you use.
3. Scale and deploy quickly and easily.
4. State of the art security and disaster recovery.
5. Built-in analytics to support informed decisions.
6. Automated software updates.

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