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Meet challenges head on—and emerge stronger from them—by achieving efficiency and differentiating your business.
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Get the guidance and expertise you need to empower your organization to emerge even stronger from today’s challenges—by embracing technology with built-in security to achieve more efficiency, maximize the value of your cloud investments, and modernize your infrastructure. And discover how to use AI to rapidly and productively develop intelligent, differentiated apps and solutions.
Achieve efficiency
Increase efficiency when you securely migrate your infrastructure, apps, and data to Azure with Azure Migrate.
Maximize value
Optimize your cloud infrastructure by monitoring, allocating, and optimizing costs with Microsoft Cost Management.
Deliver innovative experiences
Stand out in the market by infusing intelligence into your cloud apps with Azure AI.
Securely migrate and modernize workloads
Up to
40%
Lower costs—and get built-in security—when you run Windows Server and SQL Server workloads on Azure.1
Up to
53%
Improvement in IT teams' efficiency by automating time-consuming cloud management tasks.2
50%
Increase in speed of secure app development and time to market with fully managed cloud services.3
ACHIEVE EFFICIENCY
- Save up to 85 percent over the standard pay-as-you-go rate by bringing your Windows Server and SQL Server on-premises licenses to Azure with Azure Hybrid Benefit.
- Maximize performance and value using managed Azure SQL Server in the cloud. Azure SQL meets your mission-critical requirements up to 5 times faster and costs up to 93 percent less than AWS.4
- Cost-effectively retire legacy workloads that are reaching end-of-support by securely reducing your technical debt with free Extended Security Updates on Azure for Windows Server 2012/R2.
MAXIMIZE VALUE
- Reliably control your cloud costs, understand your Azure bill, and monitor and optimize your resources with Microsoft Cost Management.
- Save up to 65 percent on select compute services with the Azure savings plan for compute—now with a flexible pricing model.
- Customers lowered Azure costs by 20 percent by optimizing workloads—such as by resizing or decommissioning resources—with Azure Advisor.5
INNOVATE
- Accelerate app development by focusing on code that matters. Developers feel up to 88 percent more satisfied in their jobs and may complete tasks up to 55 percent faster with GitHub Copilot.6
- Modernize to stay on top of innovation and quickly build secure apps. Customers have reduced app development infrastructure costs by 40 percent and freed up resources for innovation with Azure platform as a service (PaaS).3
- Drive market differentiation by infusing intelligence into your apps. Drive efficiencies with prebuilt, production-ready cloud AI services for common business processes and new scenarios with Azure AI.
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Automate infrastructure
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Optimize cloud investments
Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency.
Make workloads sustainable
Learn to build sustainable cloud solutions that increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Modernize to deliver innovation
Innovate, deploy, and operate Kubernetes seamlessly.
Create innovative solutions
Build solutions to analyze images, comprehend speech, and make predictions using data.
Accelerate time to value
Use an enterprise-grade service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
Accelerate secure app development
Improve software development lifecycles with enterprise products from GitHub.
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See how customers are turning their vision into impact with Azure
ASOS
"I see cloud economics as our route of opportunity. We spend a lot of money in the cloud, so it's one of those things that has a huge impact. Our cloud cost optimization has already saved us 25 to 40 percent."
Kristina Moln-Page, Head of Finance, ASOS
NTT Ltd.
"Azure helps us consolidate through decommissioning applications and workloads by up to a third. In a central operating model, we no longer need decentralized support, helping us achieve an operational cost reduction of roughly 30 percent."
Pascal Weiss, Regional Chief Information Officer for Asia Pacific, NTT Ltd
H&R Block
"Accessing useful information quickly is critically important to providing a differentiated client experience, which is why we use Azure Cognitive Search."
Aditya Thadani, Vice President, H&R Block
AIA
"We had a scenario where we needed to boost compute by 10 times for just a weekend. Using Azure, we dynamically scaled up and back down with zero business interruption. It was seamless."
Marcel Malan, Head of Group IT Operations and General Manager, AIA
Sapiens
"Using and investing in Microsoft Azure tools to automate some of our infrastructure and processes, we managed to cut our time to market in half and reduced our operational overhead by at least 40 percent."
Michael Mirel, Head of Cloud and DevOps Center of Excellence, Sapiens
CarMax
"With the help of Azure OpenAI Service, we're disrupting our industry for a second time by delivering cutting-edge digital tools and capabilities and becoming a true omnichannel retailer."
Shamim Mohammad, Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Technology Officer, CarMax
Get expert help with migration and modernization
Move forward confidently with a proven approach, expert help, and cost-effective offers.
Create innovative AI solutions
Drive business results and improve customer experiences with AI.
Optimize costs
Manage and optimize your Azure costs with tools, guidance, and savings plans.
- [1] IDC Business Value Executive Summary, sponsored by Microsoft Azure, The Business Value of Microsoft Azure for SQL Server and Windows Server Workloads, IDC #US49616022, September 2022.
- [2] IDC Business Value Executive Summary, sponsored by Microsoft Azure, The Business Value of Migrating and Modernizing to Microsoft Azure, IDC #US49665122, September 2022.
- [3] Forrester study: The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure PaaS, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, November, 2022. Results are for a composite organization representative of interviewed customers.
- [4] Principled Technologies report: Three Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instances offered better SQL Server performance and value than their Amazon RDS counterparts in our tests.
- [5] Forrester study: Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure Advisor, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, November, 2022. Results are for a composite organization representative of interviewed customers.
- [6] GitHub blog: Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness.