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Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Built to run your business-critical workloads and ready to scale your AI innovations.
OVERVIEW
Run your digital core on Azure IaaS
Get next-generation infrastructure with a system-level approach across cutting-edge hybrid cloud technologies that span compute, storage, and networking.
- Azure IaaS delivers enterprise-proven resiliency with integrated business continuity and disaster recovery. Built-in capabilities across compute, storage, and networking help maintain availability through disruptions.
Design resilient architectures and plan recovery with confidence. - Protect infrastructure, data, and AI workloads from silicon to cloud as threats evolve. Azure delivers multi-layered security across compute, storage, and networking to safeguard data at rest, in transit, and in use.
Apply proven architectures and best practices to keep workloads secure across Azure IaaS. - Azure IaaS delivers consistent, high performance across compute and storage for demanding applications. With a global footprint and purpose-built hardware, support CPU-intensive, latency-sensitive, and high-throughput scenarios.
Discover performance-focused VM options and tuning guidance. - Azure IaaS scales with evolving demands using elastic compute, scalable storage, and high-throughput networking. Support growth, demand spikes, and regional expansion without major redesigns.
Explore proven patterns and tools to plan and scale with confidence. - Cost optimization on Azure IaaS is about maximizing performance and business value while reducing unnecessary spend.
Learn how to run infrastructure more efficiently using proven strategies like right-sizing, reservations, autoscaling, and intelligent cost management.
AI ASSESSMENT TOOL
Are you ready to scale your AI ambition?
Take a personalized assessment to understand your AI readiness, benchmark against your industry peers, and continue your AI adoption journey.
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
High-performance infrastructure innovation with Azure and AMD
Azure and AMD enable world-class capabilities for high-performance computing, visualization, and enterprise workloads. Expand your frontiers of innovation across environments with joint solutions.
AMD
Elevate performance while maximizing your IT investment value with AMD
Unlock AI performance and cost efficiency on Microsoft Azure
Learn why Azure solutions, powered by AMD, play a key role in optimizing performance, scale, and value.
Now Available: Azure AMD Da/Ea/Fa v7 VMs
Experience up to 35% improvement in CPU performance compared to equivalent sized (v6) AMD-based VMs.
Discover the performance and scalability of Azure HBv5-series VMs
Get in-depth information about Azure HBv5-series VMs for CPU-based high-performance computing (HPC).
Test an AMD burstable VM for free
Azure free account users can get up to 1500 hours free per month of AMD B2ats usage.
Advance your cloud infrastructure: Essentials with AMD on Azure
View this recorded session to get guidance for the many AMD options available to you on Azure.
Boost confidential computing performance with Azure
Get a 25% performance improvement over the previous generation—with DCasv6 and ECasv6 confidential VMs based on 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors.
CUSTOMER STORIES
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Documentation
Understand compute, storage, and networking across the Azure IaaS portfolio
Discover tools, documentation, and guidance to help you plan, deploy, and optimize Azure compute, storage, and networking workloads.
IaaS solutions
Discover hybrid cloud and infrastructure solutions on Azure
Solve infrastructure, storage, and hybrid cloud challenges using proven Azure IaaS solutions and technical guidance.
Architectures
Design Azure infrastructure for real-world workloads
Explore proven Azure architectures and guidance for common workloads, including enterprise apps and high-performance, AI-driven scenarios.
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