Get to know Azure
Turn your ideas into innovation with trusted Azure products and services
Invent with purpose
Achieve your goals with the freedom and flexibility to build, manage, and deploy your applications anywhere. Use your preferred languages, frameworks, and infrastructure—even your own datacentre and other clouds—to solve challenges large and small.
With help from Azure, you have everything you need to build your next great solution.
Trust your cloud
Get security from the earth up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and start-ups.
Operate hybrid seamlessly
On-premises, across multiple clouds, and at the edge—we’ll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with tools and services designed for hybrid cloud.
Build on your terms
You have choices. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to.
Be future-ready
Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow.
Meet any challenge with Azure—your partner in the cloud
Create your unique cloud journey
Achieve on-going value from the cloud with proven tools, guidance and resources to provide you with a clear path forward.
Invent and ship faster
Accelerate developer creativity and time to market by removing friction through Developer Velocity.
Improve your security
Help protect your business assets and data against evolving threats with built-in multi-layered security and intelligent threat protection.
Build your business case
Understand cloud economics to get the most value from your investment and build your business case for Azure.
Migrate with confidence
Get free resources, tools, and expert assistance to migrate your servers, apps, databases, and other workloads to Azure.
Gain deeper insights into your data
Transform your data into real-time insights with highly secure enterprise-scale analytics. And share data across your organisation with dashboards and visualisations.
"We've used the Azure Migration Program as the engine of TINE's cloud migration. In addition to the tools it provides, access to Microsoft subject matter experts was extremely useful."
Jan Egil Ring, Lead Architect at Crayon | Azure Expert Managed Services Provider for TINE
Azure is global. Azure is local.
Create extraordinary experiences for all of your customers—whether they’re right next door or on the other side of the world. With datacentres in more global regions, the largest compliance portfolio of any cloud provider, and a bold commitment to sustainability, you don’t need to choose between quantity and quality when you build on Azure.
Pay less on Azure
Take advantage of unique savings programmes and learn why AWS is 5 times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server.
Reinvent your business with Azure industry solutions
Manufacturing
Uncover new operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and generate new revenue opportunities.
Retail
Personalise customer experiences, empower your employees, and optimise supply chains.
Government
Implement remote government access, empower cross-agency collaboration, and deliver secure services.
Healthcare
Enhance patient engagement, empower provider collaboration, and improve operational insights.
Financial services
Personalise customer experiences, modernise financial systems, and optimise risk management.
Start building on Azure free
Get popular services free for 12 months and 40+ other services free always—plus $200 credit to use in your first 30 days.
Contact an Azure sales specialist
Get the answers you need—from how to get started to questions about your unique scenario—by talking to an Azure sales specialist.
Attend a live Q&A session with an Azure expert
Start by watching an Azure demo at your convenience—then join a live Q&A session with an Azure technical expert.