Azure for medium and small businesses
Get the right support and step-by-step guidance to help you build highly secure, scalable, and affordable solutions in the cloud.
Why Azure for your business?
Easy to get started
No matter what industry you’re in, or whether your organization is new to the cloud or cloud-native, it’s easy to get up and running quickly and confidently on Azure:
Many ways to save
Realize major short- and long-term cost benefits by moving some or all of your resources to Azure. Pay only for what you use and take advantage of innovative savings options:
Remote work
Boost remote productivity by providing your employees with the best virtual desktop experience available for Windows 10 and Office 365—available anywhere, on any device:
Partner help and support
Get friendly, expert help at any time with a variety of support options and consulting services from verified Microsoft partners who specialize in your specific needs:
Get help with pricing and take advantage of discounts
Contact an Azure sales specialist anytime for pricing questions and quotes, help understanding your bill, custom proposals for your needs, and cost-optimization tools and strategies.
Pay less by reserving virtual machines, purchasing unused compute capacity at a discount, and bringing your existing server licenses to Azure at no additional charge. And estimate your Azure costs in advance using the Total Cost of Ownership calculator.
Start using Azure today with quickstarts and industry solutions
Azure free account
Try Azure now by creating a free account and get 12 months of popular free services, more than 55 services free always, and a USD$200 credit to use in your first 30 days.
Quickstart templates
Deploy resources and Azure services in minutes with popular quickstart templates, including how to deploy basic Linux web apps, Windows Virtual Machines, and Azure Databricks Workspaces.
Azure Marketplace
Accelerate your innovation with thousands of specialized industry apps and services—and reach millions of new customers by selling your own.
Big-business capabilities for medium and small businesses
Use an enterprise-grade service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle
Enterprise scale search for app development
Add cognitive capabilities to apps with APIs and AI services
Create bots and connect them across channels
Design AI with Apache Spark™-based analytics
Build for mixed reality using AI sensors
Simplify migration and modernization with a unified platform
Keep your business running with built-in disaster recovery service
Appliances and solutions for data transfer to Azure and edge compute
Accelerate your data migration to Azure
Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency
Provision Windows and Linux VMs in seconds
Execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience
Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile
High-performance, highly durable block storage
Simplify data protection with built-in backup management at scale
Simple, secure and serverless enterprise-grade cloud file shares
Accelerate your data migration to Azure
Build apps that scale with managed and intelligent SQL database in the cloud
Modernize SQL Server applications with a managed, always-up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud
Fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL
Fully managed, scalable MySQL Database
Build or modernize scalable, high-performance apps
Simplify data protection with built-in backup management at scale
Cloud-native SIEM and intelligent security analytics
Extend threat protection to any infrastructure
Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
Keep your business running with built-in disaster recovery service
Protect your multi-cloud and hybrid environments
Enable a secure, remote desktop experience from anywhere
Provision Windows desktops and apps with VMware and Azure Virtual Desktop
Provision Windows desktops and apps on Azure with Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktop
Find a verified Microsoft partner
Move to Azure with guidance and support from a partner.