Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the addition of bitcoin payment processor BitPay to its Azure Blockchain as a service (BaaS) along with three more companies.
BitPay has now announced via blog post that its open source Bitcoin full node and development platform Bitcore is the first Bitcoin service available for Azure users. For running Bitcore, a virtual machine in the cloud requires Node.js, 100GB of disk storage, and at least 4GB of RAM, Silicon Angle reported.
http://www.econotimes.com/BitPay-Brings-Bitcore-To-Microsofts-Azure-BaaS-Cloud-150850
