Like GCP, Microsoft Azure provides Platform as a Service (PaaS). Users can deploy their applications to the Azure app service without having to know about detailed settings and VM management. Since 2010, Azure has been serving Microsoft software and third-party software to many users. Each Azure service provides different pricing tiers. In Azure, these pricing tiers are also called SKUs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_keeping_unit). 

The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) was announced in 2017 as the new support for their original container orchestrator solution, Azure Container Service (ACS). Since then, container solutions in Azure focused more on Kubernetes support rather than other container orchestrators, such as Docker Enterprise and Mesosphere DC/OS. As a Kubernetes cloud provider, AKS provides some native support, such as Azure active directory for RBAC, Azure disks for storage class, Azure load balancers for services, and HTTP application routing for ingress.