Azure application platform
The application platform for all your apps and agents
Build AI-powered apps faster, improve developer experiences, and run workloads more cost effectively
Overview
Flexibility, scale, and security to match the speed of AI innovation
- Accelerate delivery with automated builds, CI/CD integration, and intelligent scaling, freeing teams to focus on creating AI solutions with business impact.
Confidently build and run AI apps and agents with comprehensive security, governance, and responsible AI practices embedded across the platform.
Choose hosted AI models, or deploy custom and open-source models on serverless GPUs or managed Kubernetes. Extend your agents with MCP servers and APIs for adaptable, future-ready solutions. - Build AI apps your way—serverless functions, container-native, or on Kubernetes—with full support for every architecture, language, and runtime.
Access the broadest portfolio of managed services for apps with runtime support for .NET, Java, Python, Node.js, and PHP.
Modernize critical workloads from Java and .NET to SAP and Oracle with native integrations that ensure even the largest enterprise apps run efficiently and securely on Azure. - Run applications that seamlessly adapt to demand with intelligent autoscaling and global availability across regions and zones.
Deliver high-performing, reliable experiences with built-in observability, monitoring, and optimization. Accelerate response times with always-ready instances, in-memory caching, and performance testing.
Deploy with confidence across more than 60 Azure regions and more than 192 edge locations. Benefit from 99.99 percent SLA-backed availability with multi-zone resilience. - Gain full visibility with integrated monitoring, logging, and alerting, and enhance troubleshooting with AI-assisted diagnostics.
Safeguard applications with built-in, enterprise-grade security and compliance. Enforce role-based access controls and apply policies to track and manage governance at scale.
Control and optimize spend with flexible pricing models. Use FinOps tools to monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud costs.
Products and features
App platform services and features to build AI apps and agents
Azure App Service
Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps globally with a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS).
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Simplify Kubernetes operations, build cloud-native apps, and innovate with AI and open-source technology.
Azure Container Apps
Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers.
Azure Functions
Execute event-driven serverless code with an end-to-end development experience.
Azure API Management
Unify, govern, and secure your APIs across cloud and on-premises environments with an Azure-native API management solution.
Azure Logic Apps
Connect all your services, systems, and data.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Deploy and scale containers and VMs on managed Red Hat OpenShift.
The easiest managed Kubernetes experience
AKS Automatic accelerates app delivery with automation, simplifies Kubernetes operations through intelligent defaults, and enables secure, compliant workloads optimized for AI and cloud-native use cases.
Serverless scale for AI model inferencing
Serverless GPUs in Azure Container Apps enable you to seamlessly run your AI workloads with automatic scaling, optimized cold start, and per-second billing with scale to zero when not in use.
Orchestrate long-running serverless workflows
Durable functions are an extension of Azure Functions that let you write stateful, long-running, and orchestrated workflows in a serverless environment.
Run web apps with high-performance and scale
App Service Premium v4 abstracts infrastructure management, allowing businesses to focus on application development rather than server maintenance.
Governance for all your APIs, models, and MCP tools
Contral access and gain deep visibility across APIs, models, and MCP tools with AI Gateway in Azure API Management.
Integrate more than 1,400 business systems
Connect all your services, systems, and data. Drive business process automation and orchestrate AI agents to enhance decision-making with real-time insights and enterprise-grade security.
Manage containers and VMs in a single, cloud-native environment
Unify management of VMs and containers in one OpenShift environment with Azure Red Hat OpenShift with Red Hat Virtualization. Modernize faster while innovating with cloud-native apps.
AI-assisted upgrades for .NET and Java apps
Make your apps cloud ready by easily upgrading older versions of .NET and Java applications with GitHub Copilot app modernization.
Azure AI Foundry
Your platform for developing generative AI solutions and custom copilots.
GitHub Enterprise
Unlock innovation at scale with GitHub Enterprise and Microsoft Azure.
Databases on Azure
Build AI-ready apps with intelligent cloud databases.
GitHub Copilot
Accelerate developer productivity with the most widely adopted AI-developer tool.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect your hybrid and multicloud environments with unified security across the full application lifecycle, from code to runtime.
Research insights
Recognized as a Leader by analysts
- Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management1
- Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms2
- Microsoft named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service3
- Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 20254
Customer stories
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Resources
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- [1]Gartner, Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, Dennis Smith, Wataru Katsurashima, Tony Iams, Lucas Albuquerque, Michael Warrilow, Stephanie Bauman, 6 August 2025.
GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. - [2]Gartner, Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms, Tigran Egiazarov, Mukul Saha, Prasanna Lakshmi Narasimha, 4 August 2025.
- [3]Gartner, Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service, Dennis Smith, Wataru Katsurashima, Tony Iams, Lucas Albuquerque, Michael Warrilow, Stephanie Bauman, 19 August 2025.
- [4]The Forrester Wave™: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025. Forrester Research, Inc., 20 May 2025. Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here.
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