Microsoft Azure
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Features
120 features across 20 categories
AI(15)
Build intelligent apps at enterprise scale with the Azure AI portfolio
Create bots and connect them across channels
Achieve high performance for even your most compute-intensive AI workloads, including deep learning
Build high-impact AI apps with one centralized solution for agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows
Extract AI based insights from videos
Accelerate information extraction from documents
Enterprise-grade AI service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle
Construct and operationalize machine learning workflows using a GUI-based integrated development environment
Advanced coding and language models for a variety of use cases
Use AI to monitor text and image content for safety
Securely design, deploy, and scale AI agents with ease
Find the right model from exploration to deployment all in one place
Build cutting-edge, market-ready AI applications with out-of-the-box and customizable APIs and models
Platform to build, evaluate, and deploy generative AI solutions and custom agents
Confidently scale the next generation of safe, responsible AI applications
Analytics(9)
Get real-time analytics on fast-moving streaming data
Experience hybrid data integration at enterprise scale, made easy
Enable data, analytics, and AI use cases on an open data lake using Apache Spark
Provision cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters
Get real-time analytics on fast-moving streaming data
Get limitless analytics with unmatched time to insight
Realize value from data and generate near-real-time insights with advanced cloud-scale analytics solutions
Unify your teams and data to accelerate AI innovation with a complete data platform
Use Power BI to include exceptional dashboards and analytics in your own applications
Compute(16)
Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile, expand apps to additional locations
Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management
Create highly available, infinitely scalable cloud applications and APIs
Run AI apps and microservices using serverless containers
Launch containers with hypervisor isolation
Build, store, secure, and replicate container images and artifacts
Host Azure VMs for Windows and Linux with a dedicated physical server
Trigger apps with serverless computing and execute event-driven serverless code functions
Deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes with built-in scaling capabilities
Automate running containerized applications on edge devices at scale
Deploy and scale containers on managed Red Hat OpenShift
Deploy and operate always-on, scalable, distributed apps
Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows VMs
Deploy Windows and Linux VMs in seconds with scalable virtualized infrastructure
Provision VMs for Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, and other popular distributions
Deploy scalable, protected virtualized infrastructure
Database(11)
Databases designed for innovative AI apps and agents with flexibility, enterprise performance, and built-in scale
Fully managed and serverless NoSQL vector database for developing AI-powered apps and agents
Enterprise-ready, fully managed community MariaDB for cloud applications
Fully managed, scalable MySQL database for applications
Fully managed, AI-ready PostgreSQL database for innovation and scaling
Fully managed, open-source, MongoDB-compatible document database for AI-driven apps with cross-cloud compatible solutions
New PostgreSQL cloud database service engineered for performance to build and scale mission-critical applications
Fully managed, scalable, in-memory solution to accelerate app performance
Managed and intelligent SQL database in the cloud for building scalable apps
Managed, always-up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud for modernizing SQL Server applications with faster performance at same price
Get industry-leading performance for SQL on dedicated VMs
DevOps(6)
Use AI-powered tools, services, and agents from Azure and GitHub to deliver continuous innovation
Share code, track work, and ship software with modern dev services for teams
Increase software development velocity and inspire continuous innovation
Seamlessly build, scale, deliver, and deploy secure software with AI at the core of your DevOps
Streamline development with secure, ready-to-code workstations in the cloud
Powerful, lightweight, free code editor with integrated tools to develop, debug, and deploy
Education(1)
Set up virtual labs for classes, training, hackathons, and other related scenarios
Hardware(1)
AI acceleration for faster, more efficient inference across Azure
Hybrid(3)
Unify on-premises, hybrid, and cross-cloud infrastructure
Create secure, private clouds with fast, reliable, private connection to Azure
Build apps across on-premises, cloud, and the edge
Identity(3)
Manage your domain controllers in the cloud
Get consumer identity and access management in the cloud
Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
Industry Solutions(1)
Reduce time, risk, and cost of energy exploration and production
Integration(4)
Deliver AI-ready APIs with built-in governance, security, analytics, and Azure scalability
Reliable message delivery at massive scale
Build workflows faster with AI, native Azure integration, real-time insights, and enterprise-grade security
Connect across private and public cloud environments
Management(15)
Get free, personalized recommendations based on Azure best practices
Fast, scalable parameter storage for app configuration
Get effortless automation of cloud and on-premises infrastructure
Simplify cloud management with process automation
Simplify data protection with built-in backup management at scale
Streamline Azure administration with a browser-based shell
Quickly spin up app infrastructure environments with project-based templates
Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts
Implement secure, resilient and cost-efficient cloud and AI projects from the start
Build enterprise-grade, consortium-style stateful services and decentralized-trust applications
Get full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network
Run your jobs on simple or complex recurring schedules
Keep your business running with built-in disaster recovery service
Empower your organization to effectively manage investments and foster business growth
Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency
Migration(4)
Accelerate AI innovation by securely migrating and modernizing your IT estate
Run and manage applications with preferred Linux distribution on Azure
Run SAP apps and workloads on the preferred cloud platform for SAP
Move SQL Server databases to Azure with few to no application code changes
Networking(6)
Build secure, scalable, highly available web front ends in Azure
Transfer data out of Azure datacenters
Deliver high availability and network performance to your apps
Network performance monitoring and diagnostics solution
Create your own private network infrastructure in the cloud
Use dynamic or reserved addresses to identify a virtual machine or cloud service
Pricing(3)
Realize cost savings by applying existing Windows Server, SQL Server licenses, or Linux subscription
Lower Azure costs across predictable and variable workloads by reserving resources in advance
Save up to 65% on select compute services with an easy and flexible savings plan
Pricing Tools(1)
Accurately budget monthly costs for Azure products and services
Security(7)
Protect your data and code while the data is in use in the cloud
Protect Azure resources from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
Manage hardware security modules that you use in the cloud
Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets
Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity
Protect multicloud and hybrid environments with intelligent threat protection
Simplify security operations with intelligent security analytics
Storage(8)
Massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud applications
Appliances and solutions for data transfer to Azure and edge compute
Scalable, secure data lake for high-performance analytics
Simple, secure, and serverless enterprise-grade cloud file shares
Persistent, secured disk storage for Azure Virtual Machines
Enterprise-grade Azure file shares, powered by NetApp
Durable, highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage for enterprise needs
NoSQL key-value store using semi-structured datasets
Testing(1)
Optimize app performance with high-scale load testing
Web(5)
Build multichannel communication experiences
Fast, reliable content delivery network with global reach
Send push notifications to any platform from any back end
Add real-time web functionalities easily
Streamlined full-stack development from source code to global high availability
Pricing
Free Trial
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- ✓Free account to explore cloud solutions
Pay-As-You-Go
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- ✓Scale as you grow
- ✓No upfront commitments
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Build vs Buy
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Buying Microsoft Azure saves ~$295,680 over 3 years vs building.
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Integrations
10 known integrations