Azure provides a managed compute service that gives complete control of the operating systems and the application platform stack to the application developers. It provides developers with control over the data center and allows them to manage it.

This is the ideal case for projects where complete control is required. The virtual machine can be completely altered to the requirements of the project or business. However, if not managed carefully, it could become troublesome; all the security updates then become the job of the developer who manages the infrastructure.

The maintenance of the legacy application also sometimes becomes difficult due to operating system and application stack updates.