Microsoft Azure
Your AI journey starts with a single step
Make your platform AI-ready with a streamlined migration to Azure—and get the level of security, productivity, and AI capability that your organizational needs.
Azure for IT Professionals
Build intelligent apps with advanced technology, tools, and services to take your business to the next level. Seamlessly unify your technology to simplify platform management and to deliver innovations efficiently and securely on a trusted cloud.
What is Azure?
Azure is a comprehensive, trusted cloud platform designed to help you efficiently manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions in one unified place. Azure is:
Trusted cloud and AI infrastructure services
Build and scale where you need to, safeguard your IT, grow responsibly and sustainably, and run AI on a proven infrastructure—with more regions than any other cloud provider.
An industry leader in strategic cloud platform services
Learn why Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services.
An adaptive cloud to seamlessly manage technology
Innovate on an adaptive cloud that extends and grows with your needs—across datacenter, multicloud, and edge environments. Scale apps across boundaries and unify teams, sites, and systems with built-in AI assistance.
Azure. Limitless innovation.
Create today's solutions and tomorrow's breakthroughs—empowered by Microsoft Azure, the cloud the world trusts.
Innovation
Bring ideas to life
Build on a trusted platform to advance your organization with industry-leading AI and cloud services.
Unify
Seamlessly unify
Efficiently manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions across an integrated platform.
Trust
Innovate on trust
Rely on trusted technology from a partner who’s dedicated to security and responsibility.
Azure for Developers
Build intelligent apps with advanced technology, tools, and services to take your business to the next level. Seamlessly unify your technology to simplify platform management and to deliver innovations efficiently and securely on a trusted cloud.
What is Azure?
Azure is a trusted AI and cloud services platform designed to help you build innovative apps and AI-enhanced solutions—using best-in-class tools with your favorite languages, frameworks, and open-source solutions. Azure is:
Industry-leading AI services
Build your own copilots and intelligent AI apps. Choose from the latest open and multimodal models to build quickly, securely, and at scale with AI capabilities trusted by organizations worldwide.
A modern, comprehensive app platform
Build any app, in any architecture, and any language. Develop and deploy at scale on managed Kubernetes with full compatibility to open-source APIs. Plus, get the security, governance, and DevOps automation you need to be secure from code to cloud.
Flexible, advanced developer tools
Create next-gen apps securely with advanced technology, tools, and resources designed especially for developers. Make your job easier with code samples, SDKs, and technical training.
Azure. Limitless innovation.
Create today's solutions and tomorrow's breakthroughs—empowered by Microsoft Azure, the cloud the world trusts.
Innovation
Bring ideas to life
Build on a trusted platform to advance your organization with industry-leading AI and cloud services.
Unify
Seamlessly unify
Efficiently manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions across an integrated platform.
Trust
Innovate on trust
Rely on trusted technology from a partner who’s dedicated to security and responsibility.
Azure for Business Leaders
Build intelligent apps and solutions with advanced technology, tools, and services to take your business to the next level. Seamlessly unify your technology to simplify platform management and to deliver innovations efficiently and securely on a trusted cloud.
What is Azure?
Azure is a comprehensive, trusted cloud platform designed to help you innovate responsibly and securely with AI, grow at any scale, maximize the value of your investments, and keep your business ahead of the competition. Azure is:
An advanced cloud platform to build innovative solutions
Build and modernize intelligent apps to drive meaningful business value by accelerating time to market, creating differentiated experiences, improving app performance, and increasing efficiency.
An industry-leading foundation for AI transformation
Get insights from business leaders on using AI to gain competitive advantage in any industry. Lead your market with multimodal and generative AI by finding your best models, differentiating with your data, and realizing repeatable value.
Safe, responsible AI solutions
Empower your organization to develop, use, and govern AI solutions responsibly with Azure AI. Turn responsible AI best practices into a competitive advantage and confidently scale the next generation of innovative apps.
Azure. Limitless innovation.
Create today's solutions and tomorrow's breakthroughs—empowered by Microsoft Azure, the cloud the world trusts.
Innovation
Bring ideas to life
Build on a trusted platform to advance your organization with industry-leading AI and cloud services.
Unify
Seamlessly unify
Efficiently manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions across an integrated platform.
Trust
Innovate on trust
Rely on trusted technology from a partner who’s dedicated to security and responsibility.
Solutions for putting your ideas into action
Solve your business problems with proven combinations of Azure cloud services, as well as sample architectures and documentation.
Featured Solutions
AI
Build intelligent apps at enterprise scale with the Azure AI portfolio.
An adaptive cloud
Unify disparate assets with AI-enhanced management and security across cloud and edge environments.
Migrate to innovate
Securely migrate Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux estate to Microsoft Azure.
Build & modernize intelligent apps
Build AI-powered, intelligent apps and enhance your critical solutions with generative AI.
Cloud Migration
Migrate to innovate
Get AI-ready by securely migrating Windows Server, SQL Server, and Linux to Azure.
Linux in Azure
Run and manage applications your way with your preferred Linux distribution on Azure.
SAP on the Microsoft Cloud
Extend your SAP applications and innovate in the cloud trusted by SAP.
Oracle on Azure
Migrate Oracle workloads and innovate with Azure services.
Data Transformation
Data analytics for AI
Realize value from data and generate near-real-time insights with advanced cloud-scale analytics solutions.
Azure managed databases
Build cloud-native applications or modernize existing applications with fully managed, flexible databases.
Application and data modernization
Deliver enhanced application and data experiences even faster.
Business intelligence
Drive faster, more efficient decision making by drawing deeper insights from your analytics.
App Development
Build and modernize intelligence
Build AI-powered, intelligent apps and enhance your critical solutions with generative AI.
Modern application development
Respond to changes faster, optimize costs, and ship confidently.
DevOps
Bring together people, processes, and products to continuously deliver value to customers and coworkers.
Integration Services
Build new, integrated solutions that connect applications and services on-premises and in the cloud.
AI
AI
Build intelligent apps at enterprise scale with the Azure AI portfolio.
Azure AI Infrastructure
Achieve high performance for even your most compute-intensive AI workloads, including deep learning.
Explore tools for bringing your vision to life:
Featured Products & Services
Windows Server on Azure
Run business-critical workloads with hybrid cloud agility and advanced security.
Azure Arc
Unify on-premises, hybrid, and cross-cloud infrastructure.
Azure AI Foundry
Build, evaluate, and deploy generative AI solutions and custom agents.
Azure AI Content Understanding
Simplify multimodal AI app development and automate complex data extraction.
Azure OpenAI Service
Build your own agents and generative AI apps.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Build and scale apps with managed Kubernetes.
Azure AI Search
Deliver accurate, hyper-personalized responses in your generative AI applications.
AI + Machine Learning Products & Services
Azure AI Foundry
Build, evaluate, and deploy generative AI solutions and custom agents.
Azure OpenAI Service
Build your own agents and generative AI apps.
Azure AI Search
Deliver accurate, hyper-personalized responses in your generative AI applications.
Azure AI Content Safety
Use AI to monitor text and image content for safety.
Azure Machine Learning
Use an enterprise-grade AI service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
Azure AI Vision
Discover computer vision insights from image and video analysis with OCR and AI.
Azure AI Language
Build intelligent applications with natural language processing capabilities.
Compute Products & Services
Azure Virtual Machines
Deploy VMs in seconds.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Build and scale apps with managed Kubernetes.
Linux virtual machines in Azure
Provision VMs for Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, and other popular distributions.
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Get industry-leading performance for SQL.
Windows Virtual Machines
Deploy scalable, protected virtualized infrastructure.
Azure Functions
Trigger apps with serverless computing.
Azure App Service
Expand apps to additional locations.
Containers Products & Services
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Build and scale apps with managed Kubernetes.
Azure App Service
Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile.
Azure Functions
Trigger apps with serverless computing.
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager PREVIEW
Seamlessly manage Kubernetes clusters at scale.
Azure Container Instances
Run containers without managing servers.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Build, deploy, and scale apps on fully managed OpenShift clusters.
Azure Spring Apps
Build or migrate Spring applications with a fully managed service.
Hybrid + Multicloud Products & Services
Azure Arc
Unify on-premises, hybrid, and cross-cloud infrastructure.
Azure SQL
Migrate and modernize your SQL workloads.
Azure Stack
Build apps across on-premises, cloud, and the edge.
Microsoft Sentinel
Simplify security operations with intelligent security analytics.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments.
Azure ExpressRoute
Create secure, private clouds.
Azure DevOps
Share code, track work, and ship software with modern dev services.
IoT Products & Services
Azure IoT Hub
Authenticate communication across devices, edge, and cloud.
Azure IoT Central
Build IoT solutions on a hosted platform.
Azure IoT Edge
Deploy cloud intelligence on local edge devices.
Microsoft Defender for IoT
Protect IoT and OT devices from threats.
Azure Digital Twins
Create models of physical environments.
Azure Sphere
Secure your IoT hardware and software.
Azure Time Series Insights
Visualize IoT data in real time.
Get to know Azure
Build intelligent apps with advanced technology, tools, and services to take your business to the next level. Seamlessly unify your technology to simplify platform management and to deliver innovations efficiently and securely on a trusted cloud.
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