What is Azure Stack?
An extension of Azure to consistently build and run hybrid applications across cloud boundaries
Use public cloud services
Build and run applications with more than 100 cloud services across 54 regions around the globe.
Use cloud services on premises
Build and run cloud applications using consistent Azure services on-premises to meet regulatory or technical requirements.
Run virtualized applications on premises
Run virtual machines on hyperconverged systems and use Windows Admin Center to connect to Azure for cloud services.
Azure innovation anywhere
Intelligent cloud, intelligent edge. Extend Azure services and capabilities on-premises, and build, deploy, and operate hybrid cloud and edge applications consistently across Azure and Azure Stack. Azure Stack is sold as an integrated system of software and validated hardware.
Your cloud, your way. Run your own autonomous cloud, completely or partially disconnected from the internet and public cloud. Operate Azure Stack yourself or with the help of a trusted managed service provider. Either way, you control access to your data.
Edge and disconnected solutions
Run Azure Stack at the edge for remote locations or intermittent connectivity, run it disconnected from the internet, or create hybrid solutions—process data locally in Azure Stack and then aggregate it in Azure for additional processing and analytics.
Cloud applications that meet regulatory requirements
Meet your specific regulatory or policy requirements with full flexibility to deploy on-premises using Azure Stack—without changing any code.
Legacy systems modernization
Apply a consistent DevOps process, Azure web services, containers, serverless computing, and microservices architectures to update and extend your legacy data locked in mainframe and core business process applications.
Consistent tools, experiences, and application models
Easily transfer your skills and processes between Azure clouds while using the tools you want. Maximize productivity by building and deploying applications the same way, whether your apps run on Azure or Azure Stack.
- One set of tools. Use the same application model, self-service portal, and APIs with Azure Resource Manager.
- Common DevOps. Experience continuous deployment and integration using Jenkins and Azure DevOps, and automation using Chef and Azure PowerShell DSC extensions.
- Open source. Use a broad range of open source technologies, including Java, Python, Node.js, PHP, Kubernetes containers, and Cloud Foundry.
Run the same Azure services across cloud boundaries
Meet your business and technical requirements by using the right combination of cloud and on-premises deployments for your needs. Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) delivery goes far beyond traditional virtualization. Use Virtual Machine Scale Sets for rapid deployments with true autoscaling for modern workloads.
Consistent Azure platform as a service (PaaS) capabilities bring hybrid deployment choice and portability to cloud applications. Run fully managed PaaS, serverless computing, distributed microservices architectures, and container management on-premises.
Get going quickly with one Azure ecosystem
Our purpose-built integrated system design gets you up and running quickly. Azure Stack integrated systems are available from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC, Cisco, Lenovo, and others. Enjoy the continuous innovation of Azure through regular software updates.
Learn how to manage infrastructureAzure Stack for industries
Edge and disconnected
Build innovative applications with the same platform in the cloud and at the edge.
Trustworthy
Customize security over data, applications, and identities, lowering friction and creating faster pathways to regulatory compliance.
Modernize citizen services
Speed up application and database modernization and provide new services that integrate easily into your existing systems.
Build secure solutions that help government agencies improve how they serve and protect citizens.
Explore solutionsAzure on the factory floor
Enable smart factory solutions with consistent development workflow across the edge, IoT, and mobile ecosystems
Simplified compliance
Align to regulations under a single set of skills, technologies, and processes
Modernize outdated systems
Undertake efficient legacy application and database modernization to optimize your business with cloud era technology
Gain actionable insights and respond quickly to customer feedback and market trends.
Explore solutionsOffline cloud services
Transform and optimize healthcare solutions with consistent development workflow across the edge, IoT, and mobile ecosystems, even when disconnected from the Internet
Simplified compliance
Get comprehensive security over data, applications, and identities, with lower friction and faster pathways to regulatory compliance
Modern healthcare apps
Easily integrate existing systems with new, cloud-based investments to promote progress while ensuring continuity
Develop solutions to improve health-based outcomes and drive efficiency using technology innovation.
Explore solutionsEdge and disconnected
Drive innovative, cloud-based financial solutions with consistent development workflow across the edge, IoT, and mobile ecosystems
Keep up with regulations
Get comprehensive security over data, applications, and identities, with lower friction and faster pathways to regulatory compliance
Modern cloud financial apps
Upgrade existing systems with cloud technology while building new systems for the future
Reimagine the customer experience, optimize risk management, and transform your product's mission.
Explore solutionsAzure Stack for developers
Bring the agility and fast-paced innovation of cloud computing to on-premises environments with Azure Stack. Gain flexibility and control by building modern applications across hybrid cloud environments using a consistent set of skills, services, tools, and processes.
Get the Azure Stack Development Kit
Learn about hybrid cloud application design
See how you can boost productivity and more easily meet business requirements when building and deploying applications for cloud and on-premises environments.
Explore hybrid solutions
Use the tools you want
Use a consistent set of Azure services and DevOps processes and tools. Azure Stack provides a parallel development and deployment experience across Visual Studio and open source tools.
Read the documentationAzure Stack partners
Our integrated systems partners, service providers, and software marketplace partners help you extend Azure on-premises.
Work with the people you use for public cloud wherever you need them, whether it’s a hardware partner in your datacenter, a managed service provider, a cloud application developer from the Azure Marketplace, or a trusted system integrator. Our Azure ecosystem helps you integrate Azure Stack with solutions such as monitoring and identity services.
Connect with technology and service partners
Get the help you need to run Azure Stack or to create hybrid solutions that run on Azure Stack.
Find a technology or service partner
Get software from the Azure Marketplace
Download select software and services from the Marketplace to use in Azure Stack.
Explore hybrid solutions
Integrate your data
Integrate Azure Stack with your existing operations and management software, such as backup, monitoring, and identity services. We work with our partners to ensure that their software manages workloads running on Azure Stack.
Find integration software
Extend your cloud business
Reach new customers and better serve your existing ones, whether you’re a system integrator or a managed service provider.
Download the whitepaperSimplify deployment with Azure Stack integrated systems
Optimize your applications by using integrated systems designed to deliver a consistent Azure experience. Get up and running quickly with purpose-built Azure Stack integrated systems from one of our hardware partners.
Azure Marketplace software
Download select software and services from the Marketplace to use in Azure Stack.
Find Marketplace softwareFeatured Marketplace partners
Read customer stories about Azure Stack
Dr. Peter Weckesser, Digital Transformation Officers Airbus Defence and Space“I really want my engineers to focus on the value that differentiates us and build this on a platform stack which is always up to date and leading edge.”
Paul Thompson, Director of Strategic Solutions, Avid“With Azure Stack, we can provide a unique hybrid cloud solution that helps our customers move to the cloud gradually.”
Kurata Miyashita, Executive Officer, Digital Transformation Center, Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd.“As one of the early adopters, we’re actively testing a Microsoft Azure Stack integrated system to ensure that our mission-critical applications will run smoothly. Our goal is to leverage the capabilities of Azure and Azure Stack to provide hybrid cloud services for various business applications across the Mitsui group.”
Tiberiu Croitoru, CEO, BinBox Global Services“The inclusion of Microsoft Azure Stack services into our portfolio enhances our value proposition in a number of ways. Microsoft Azure Stack will bring us customers who wanted to exploit public cloud but were holding back due to data location concerns.”
