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What is Azure?

The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and frameworks of your choice.

Trust your cloud

Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups.

Azure

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 services designed for hybrid cloud.

Build on your terms

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.

90+

90+

compliance offerings—the largest portfolio in the industry.

95%

95%

of Fortune 500 companies trust their business on Azure.

USD1 billion

USD1 billion

investment (US dollars) per year in security to protect customers’ data from cyberthreats.

Solutions do the work for you

Find answers to the business challenges you face with an Azure solution that brings together everything you need—related products, services, and third-party applications. From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, you’ll be up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.

Healthcare

Develop solutions for proactive, personalized healthcare.

Financial services

Better serve customers, empower employees, and optimize risk management.

Government

Build secure solutions to better serve and protect your citizens.

Retail

Deliver personal, seamless, and differentiated experiences.

  • Manufacturing

    Respond quicker to customer feedback and market trends.

Companies doing great things with Azure

"We did look at different platforms, including Azure, Google, Amazon, and VMware. If we wanted to put the whole city in the cloud, we needed Azure."

Chris McMasters, Chief Information Officer, City of Corona, CA

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ASOS

Creating better experiences for 15.4 million customers worldwide

ASOS, a top online fashion retailer, delivered a more personalized, mobile-first experience with Azure.

Daimler

Onboarding developers in hours instead of weeks

Daimler AG quickly attracts and onboards top talent to innovate faster using the Azure development environment.

Will Azure work for my industry?

Azure provides solutions for all industries, through proven combinations of cloud products and services. Address your industry-specific business challenges today, and prepare for the future by innovating with Azure solutions.

How does Azure compare to other clouds?

Azure is the only consistent hybrid cloud, delivers unparalleled developer productivity, provides comprehensive, multilayered security, including the largest compliance coverage of any cloud provider, and you’ll pay less for Azure as AWS is five times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server.

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