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Get to know Azure

Build intelligent apps and solutions 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 innovate responsibly and securely with AI, grow at any scale, maximize the value of your investments, and keep your business ahead of the competition. Azure is:
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An advanced cloud platform to build innovative solutions

Build and modernize intelligent apps to drive meaningful business value by accelerating time to market, creating differentiated experiences, improving app performance, and increasing efficiency.
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An industry-leading foundation for AI transformation

Get insights from business leaders on using AI to gain competitive advantage in any industry. Lead your market with multimodal and generative AI by finding your best models, differentiating with your data, and realizing repeatable value.
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Safe, responsible AI solutions

Empower your organization to develop, use, and govern AI solutions responsibly with Azure AI. Turn responsible AI best practices into a competitive advantage and confidently scale the next generation of innovative apps.
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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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Innovation

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 Forrester respondents agreed that cloud migration significantly reduced barriers to AI adoption
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Migrating to Microsoft Azure for AI-Readiness
43%
increased IT security efficiency
$20B
Microsoft investment in cybersecurity
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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 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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Hear the perspectives and approaches of industry leaders to inform your tech strategy decisions.
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Understand the essentials

Find comprehensive tools and resources to enhance the performance of your Azure investments.
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Customize a cloud solution to your needs

Increase agility, boost efficiency, and find cost savings with Microsoft Cloud industry solutions.
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