Microsoft® Azure™ IaaS is an open, flexible, enterprise-level cloud computing platform that is used for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers.

Microsoft has expanded Azure IaaS to include a marketplace with thousands of certified, open source, community software applications, developer services, and data, all pre-configured for Microsoft Azure.

You can deploy Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) on Azure IaaS using the Azure Marketplace offerings designed for HDP.