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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 Cloud AI Developer 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.

Azure. Limitless innovation.

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

See the impact

Increase the speed and efficiency of innovation while optimizing the return on your investment.
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75% of Forrester respondents agreed that cloud migration significantly reduced barriers to AI adoption
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Migrating to Microsoft Azure for AI-Readiness
51%
more efficient IT infrastructure teams
100+
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.

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 the tools and frameworks of your choice to build, run, and manage applications across cloud, hybrid, and edge environments.
  • Azure offers benefits and advantages such as global enterprise scale, enhanced security, compliance, backup and recovery capabilities, simplified management across multicloud and distributed environments, the flexibility to choose your preferred technology, tools, and languages, as well as 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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