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Azure

Get to know Azure

Build, run, and operate AI apps and agents on a platform built for a world where intelligence never stops. Unify your technology as one connected system to deliver enterprise intelligence across your organization efficiently and securely on a trusted cloud.

What is Azure?

Azure is the trusted platform for enterprise intelligence, bringing your infrastructure, data, models, and AI apps and agents together as one unified system at global scale.
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Trusted infrastructure for AI apps and agents
Build and scale where you need to, safeguard your IT, and run AI on infrastructure optimized from silicon to agent—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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One connected system to run AI everywhere
Run apps and agents across datacenter, multicloud, and edge as one connected system. Unify teams, data, and workflows so AI operates with shared context and built-in AI assistance across boundaries.
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Azure: Your intelligent cloud

Unleash AI with Azure—the trusted platform for enterprise intelligence.   
Unify

Power continuous innovation

Create a shared foundation to build, run, and scale apps and agents across the organization.
Trust

Scale with confidence

Scale confidently with security, governance, and observability built into every layer of the system.
Optimize

Accelerate results

Turn operational insights into better performance, lower costs, and improved outcomes.

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
100+
Compliance offerings
CUSTOMER STORIES

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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Fortune Brands Innovations unifies their brands under one portal with Microsoft Power Pages
Fortune Brands Innovations created a more streamlined customer experience using Microsoft Power Pages and Dynamics 365 Customer Experience.
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Solv eliminates 98% of clerical errors with Dynamics 365 Business Central
Solv improved report accuracy and efficiency by switching to Dynamics 365 Business Central, saving 40 man-hours monthly and enhancing financial controls.
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Syensqo.AI leverages Azure OpenAI Service to develop SyGPT chatbot in record time
Syensqo.AI, a division of the Belgian science and technology leader Syensqo, has developed SyGPT, an advanced AI chatbot using Azure OpenAI Service.
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Frequently asked questions

  • Azure is the trusted platform for enterprise intelligence, with industry-leading AI and cloud services to bring new solutions to life. Use your preferred tools and frameworks to build, run, and operate apps and agents 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. It also brings infrastructure, data, models, and governance together so you can run AI apps and agents as one connected system.
  • 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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Azure modernization center

Build an agile AI-ready foundation for apps and agents, stay secure from code to cloud, and maximize ROI on a platform built for all workloads.
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Explore Frontier Transformation

Get resources to improve reliability, security, and performance across your cloud, AI, and agent investments.
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Stay ahead of the quick pace of AI

Learn how agents are shaping what’s next. Hear from the team behind the tools in The Shift: Agentic Edition podcast.
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