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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 trusted AI and cloud services platform designed to help you build innovative apps and AI-enhanced solutions—using best-in-class tools with your favorite languages, frameworks, and open-source solutions. Azure is:

Industry-leading AI services

Build your own copilots and intelligent AI apps. Choose from the latest open and multimodal models to build quickly, securely, and at scale with AI capabilities trusted by organizations worldwide.
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A modern, comprehensive app platform

Build any app, in any architecture, and any language. Develop and deploy at scale on managed Kubernetes with full compatibility to open-source APIs. Plus, get the security, governance, and DevOps automation you need to be secure from code to cloud.
Build intelligent apps

Flexible, advanced developer tools

Create next-gen apps securely with advanced technology, tools, and resources designed especially for developers. Make your job easier with code samples, SDKs, and technical training.
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Azure. Limitless innovation.

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

Accelerate innovation, increase productivity, and grow your skills.
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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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Check out developer resources

Hear developer news and stay connected in the Azure Developer Hub. Find code samples, documentation, and tutorials to jump-start your next project. Plus, get access to the latest updates and AI tools and view expert-led demos.
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See how Azure works

Take a quick video tour, watch how-to demos, and get your questions answered by Azure experts.
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Maximize your impact with cloud skills

Build the skills you need to advance your career with personalized technical training and certifications.
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