| The name of the base system (platform): | Blockchain Technology Projects |
| Developers: | Microsoft |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | 2015/11 |
| Last Release Date: | 2017/05 |
| Technology: | PaaS - Platform As A Service - Business Platform as a Service |
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Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service is a resilient, cost-effective, and high-performance platform for organizations to interact with new business processes with the support of Azure's cloud platform with a wide range of compliance tools.
2021: Service Closure
In mid-May 2021, Microsoft announced the closure of the Azure Blockchain Service cloud blockchain platform on September 10, 2021. The service does not support the deployment of new projects from May 10, 2021.
Since 2015, the Azure Blockchain Service blockchain platform has played the role of a sandbox, with the help of which partners could interact with various technologies and services based on blockchain technology, from smart contracts to tax reporting. Users have been given access to the Azure Enterprise Client Toolkit. Microsoft focused on establishing the platform as a "certified blockchain market," offering solutions from industry participants. A fully managed service based on the Quorum blockchain became available to Microsoft customers in 2019.
As an alternative to Azure Blockchain Service, Microsoft offers users to switch to the Quorum blockchain developed by ConsenSys. The company bought the Quorum service from JPMorgan Chase in 2020.
According to Microsoft, Quorum will provide Azure customers with access to similar services. The platform will allow them to create "multi-cloud blockchain services" and solutions for conducting confidential transactions.
The reasons for the closure of the blockchain platform are not reported. By May 2021, Azure Blockchain customers are such large companies as JPMorgan, GE Aviation, Singapore Airlines, Starbucks and Xbox.
 | Expanding our relationship with Microsoft helps organizations take advantage of Quorum ConsenSys and Quorum customer support to offer users an enterprise-level managed blockchain service that can be easily configured and deployed, "said Quorum founder and CEO ConsenSys Joseph Lubin.[1] |  |
2017
According to 2017 information, Azure's open, flexible and scalable platform supported a rapidly growing number of distributed registry technologies that help meet security, performance, and operational process requirements. Intelligent services, such as Cortana Intelligence, provided data management and analysis capabilities, and a vast ecosystem of Microsoft partners allowed us to expand the capabilities of our platforms and services according to the needs of certain industries.
The Azure cloud platform included intelligent services and tools for developing, testing and deploying block chain applications (available from Azure Marketplace).
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Microsoft will simplify the creation of working applications on top of Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service
In July, Microsoft announced its desire to make its Blockchain-as-a-Service product easier for enterprises to use in the real world. The company is ready to simplify the creation of working applications on top of Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service. The next step in Microsoft's Blockchain-as-a-Service strategy is to release Enterprise Smart Contracts.[2]
With the release of Enterprise Smart Contracts, Microsoft is trying to help companies figure out how to build blockchain as a service. This tool provides users with a schema (data elements for contract execution), logic (business rules), counterparties, external sources (data entry triggers), registry, and contract obligations.
| | The public area of Microsoft Azure and the future hybrid cloud platform Azure Stack provide building blocks to create the basic capabilities necessary for the implementation of Enterprise Smart Contracts, "said Marley Gray, chief software manager of Azure Blockchain Engineering. - But business users need to do more than just share the same cryptographic primitives as blockchains. They need a platform and an environment. | |
The platform, which includes Azure, Azure Key Vault and Azure Active Directory, can solve such problems as key management, integration of corporate identity, generation of cryptography confirmation, etc. The environment is built on top of this platform, providing Key Vault authorization, runtime services, transaction generation and routing, and a message-based programming interface.
| | The blockchain environment plus intermediate layer cryptlets is what will help companies prepare for creating and integrating distributed applications, "Gray concluded | |
Waves Platform Availability
On May 10, 2017, it became known about the deployment of a decentralized platform for crowdfunding in the Microsoft Azure region. Adding Waves to Azure allows companies and software developers who want to create their own tokens on the blockchain, for example.
| | We welcome the advent of the Waves blockchain platform in Azure Blockchain as a Service. This platform allows developers to quickly implement projects such as ICO (crowdfunding), the creation of tokens, for example, for loyalty programs, "said Konstantin Goldstein, technical evangelist at Microsoft Russia | |
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2016: Project Bletchley Announcement
Microsoft removed the cover of mystery from the first version of Project Bletchley - ON an intermediate layer/template. blockchain It is designed to help customers and partners create networks of a private consortium, Ethereum a distributed Open Source blockchain-based computing platform that provides a decentralized virtual machine.
2015: Start
Microsoft launched Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service in November 2015.
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