The cloud for intelligent apps
Create the apps of the future, that delight with data-driven experiences, using a comprehensive set of data services and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities from image recognition to bot services.
Develop breakthrough apps with built-in AI
Use Azure to easily build intelligent apps. No other cloud brings analytics and AI to your data wherever it lives, and in the languages you use. Take advantage of a comprehensive set of services, infrastructure, and tools to build AI-powered experiences, from bots that naturally interact with users, to gaining intelligent insights and predictions from your data. Azure brings AI to any scenario—with maximum productivity, performance, and security.
Build and deploy custom AI models at scale on any data
Gain faster insights with the tools, languages, and frameworks of your choice using collaborative, agile model development on data that resides anywhere. Confidently deploy models to production at scale, across on-premises, cloud, or IoT systems, backed by enterprise-grade security and support.
Expand your possibilities with an open platform
Combine the best of Microsoft and open source data and AI innovations to develop intelligent apps. Azure supports a range of deployment options, popular frameworks and languages, and a comprehensive set of data engines across relational, NoSQL, and big data. Use this flexibility plus the performance, scale, and security delivered by Microsoft technologies, to build the app you envision.
Why Azure is the right choice
Productive
Get unparalleled developer productivity with integrated tools from mobile DevOps to serverless computing.
Hybrid
Develop and deploy where you want, with the only consistent hybrid cloud on the market. Extend Azure on-premises with Azure Stack.
Intelligent
Create intelligent apps that delight with data-driven experiences. Go quickly from concept to release with Azure data services and artificial intelligence, from image recognition to bot services.
Trusted
Join startups, governments, and 90 percent of Fortune 500s that trust the Microsoft Cloud for security, privacy, transparency, and the most compliance coverage of any cloud provider.
Customers are doing great things with Azure
1. Sign up
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2. Learn
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3. Build
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