Microsoft Azure

Azure is the cloud platform service provided by Microsoft with hundreds of services which covers all three types of cloud services such as,

• IaaS
• PaaS
• SaaS

Azure has a user friendly control panel called Azure Portal to manage your resources under all the subscriptions and resource groups. Using this control panel, you can create, update, delete, scale up/down pause/restart grant access and monitor any type of  Azure service based on the access you granted. 

Also they have a sophisticated resource access management framework with hierarchical and logical groupings. This framework ensure the security of data in cloud. All the services are fully secured. Authorization can be done by the  resource access management where as the authentication happened through out Azure Active Directory.

Azure has well defined pricing framework for it's each and every services based on desired pricing methods. Also it allows end user to calculate the approximated cost for the service you are going to use. You can choose the service and how you are willing to use the service and estimate the cost. The pricing calculation is different from service to service based on how the service works.