Opsgility announced last week the availability of the Opsgility Cloud Sandbox which enables users to create, manage and control Microsoft Azure subscriptions outside of the production environment.
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers.
The Opsgility Cloud Sandbox enables companies' developer teams to "experiment, learn and perform development and test in Microsoft Azure without the risk of overspending and major time investment of managing and monitoring subscriptions," the cloud technology training company said in its press release.
This sandbox allows cloud admins to enable hard quotas to control both costs and services and regions. Admins can specify the exact date and time that the creation and/or termination of an Azure subscription, and these are distinct and separate from production accounts.
Furthermore, there are built-in budgeting and quota management tools that can be used for spending caps. These provide reports for simplified cloud chargeback, regardless of the company size.
The Opsgility Cloud Sandbox provides the on-demand lab environments, enabling users to provide customizations needed proof-of-concepts and demos that expire. It also allows the automatic deployment of workloads within the sandbox subscription environments.
Meanwhile, many Wall Street analysts believe Azure Cloud generated revenue of $3 billion in the most recent quarter.
Microsoft shares closed Friday at $65.78, just before getting another all-time high of $65.91. Azure has grown to become second to Amazon.com, Inc.'s AWS, although the tech giant has remained mum about its platform's client closure rate.
"Our customers are seeing greater value and opportunity as we partner with them through their digital transformation," Investopedia quoted Microsoft CEO Satya Nedalla as saying.
"Accelerating advancements in AI across our platforms and services will provide further opportunity to drive growth in the Microsoft Cloud," he added.
