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Get to know Azure

Build intelligent apps with advanced technology, tools, and services to take your business to the next level. Seamlessly unify your technology to simplify platform management and to deliver innovations efficiently and securely on a trusted cloud.

What is Azure?

Azure is a comprehensive, trusted cloud platform designed to help you efficiently manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions in one unified place. Azure is:
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Trusted cloud and AI infrastructure services

Build and scale where you need to, safeguard your IT, grow responsibly and sustainably, and run AI on a proven infrastructure—with more regions than any other cloud provider.
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An industry leader in strategic cloud platform services

Learn why Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services.
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An adaptive cloud to seamlessly manage technology

Innovate on an adaptive cloud that extends and grows with your needs—across datacenter, multicloud, and edge environments. Scale apps across boundaries and unify teams, sites, and systems with built-in AI assistance.
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Azure: Limitless innovation

Create today's solutions and tomorrow's breakthroughs—empowered by Microsoft Azure, the cloud the world trusts.
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Innovate

Bring ideas to life

Build on a trusted platform to advance your organization with industry-leading AI and cloud services.
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Unify

Seamlessly unify

Efficiently manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions across an integrated platform.
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Trust

Innovate on trust

Rely on trusted technology from a partner who’s dedicated to security and responsibility.
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See the impact

Increase the speed and efficiency of innovation while optimizing the return on your investment.
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75% of respondents to a Forrester study agreed that cloud migration significantly reduced barriers to AI adoption
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Migrating to Microsoft Azure for AI Readiness
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More efficient IT infrastructure teams
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Compliance offerings
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See customer innovation in action

Learn how organizations around the world successfully drive innovation, optimize costs, and expand capabilities on Azure.
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The NBA uses AI to analyze players' performance data
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H&R Block simplifies tax preparation with a powerful AI tax assistant
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HP embraces GitHub Copilot, boosts software innovation and speed
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Vodafone amplifies call center innovation, customer service, and employee inclusion with Azure AI
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DICK’S Sporting Goods creates an omnichannel athlete experience using Azure Arc and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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Inflection AI accelerates development time with its Pi chatbot and Azure AI infrastructure
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Frequently asked questions

  • Azure is a cloud platform with industry-leading AI and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life. Use your preferred tools and frameworks to build, run, and manage applications across cloud, hybrid, and edge environments.
  • Azure offers global enterprise scale, enhanced security, compliance, backup and recovery capabilities, as well as simplified management across multicloud and distributed environments and the flexibility to choose your preferred technology, tools, and languages. In addition, Azure provides access to industry-leading AI services, cloud infrastructure, and an intelligent data platform.
  • Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
  • Yes, Azure is a highly secure cloud foundation managed by Microsoft—dedicated to security, data privacy, and responsible AI. Azure provides industry-leading, multilayered security across physical datacenters, infrastructure, and operations—with built-in resiliency features for high availability, disaster recovery, and backup.
  • Start with Azure Fundamentals, an online training series exploring basic cloud concepts. Get a streamlined overview of Azure services and practical exercises to deploy your first service for free.
  • Explore the Azure Well-Architected Framework—offering proven best practices, guidance, and resources to help you make informed decisions about cloud workload design, technology, and implementation.

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Migrate to innovate

Build an agile AI-ready foundation, stay secure from code to cloud, and maximize ROI on a platform purpose-built for all workloads.
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Understand the essentials

Get resources to improve reliability, security, and performance for your cloud and AI investments.
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Customizing generative AI for unique value

Get expert insights on how customizing AI models is helping the world's leading companies drive more value in this new report from Microsoft and MIT Technology Review Insights.
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