A small planning office needs one Azure-hosted machine for a lightweight GIS tool where staff will manage the operating system. Which service is the core IaaS compute option for that need?
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Short Explanation
Need a real machine image in Azure and willing to manage the OS? That is an Azure Virtual Machine. It is the straightforward IaaS compute building block for a small GIS box.
Full Explanation
Azure Virtual Machines are the primary IaaS compute offering: Azure provides the virtualized hardware, and customers manage the guest operating system and applications. That model fits workloads that need OS-level control, such as a small GIS tool. Serverless functions and unrelated SaaS mailboxes do not substitute for that IaaS machine model.