Microsoft has announced that since from the inception of the authentication service on the Windows Azure platform in 2012, the company says that it has processed 200 million authentications for 50 million active user accounts. On an average week, the company received 4.7 billion authentication requests for users in over 420,000 different domains. Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) has already processed just over 1 million authentications from many different devices and users around the world with responding to 9,000 requests per second and in the U.S. the average authentication takes less than 0.7 seconds. What more to say, after learning about numbers, when it is clearly indicating that Azure getting bigger.
