Overview
Flexibility, scale, and security to match the speed of AI innovation
- Accelerate AI app and agent development with fully managed services and extend through model context protocol (MCP) tools. Run custom or open-source models on serverless GPUs or managed Kubernetes for fast, flexible scale. Get to production faster with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Automatic, an automated Kubernetes experiences built for AI workloads.
- Build and deploy applications your way—serverless, containers, or Kubernetes—supporting any architecture, language, or runtime. Modernize Java and .NET with AI-assisted code transformation and accelerate innovation across every workload.
- Adapt to demand with intelligent autoscaling and global availability. Deploy confidently across more than 60 regions and more than 190 edge sites with up to 99.99 percent service-level agreements (SLAs) and multiple-zone resilience, including managed support for legacy Windows web apps using the managed instance on Azure App Service (preview) feature.
- Get full visibility with integrated monitoring, logging, and AI-assisted diagnostics. Strengthen security and compliance with built-in controls and policy governance. Optimize spend with flexible pricing and FinOps, or cloud financial management, insights, and automate operations and incident response with Azure SRE Agent.
Products
Application 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 functions 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
Automate and orchestrate business processes by connecting applications, data, and services across environments.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Deploy and scale containers on managed Red Hat OpenShift.
Azure SRE Agent
Automate incident response with an always-on, agentic AI solution.
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 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
Premium v4 tier of App Service 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 the 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 virtual machines (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.
Microsoft 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 independent industry analysts
- Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management1s
- Microsoft is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms2
- Microsoft is 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
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- [1]Gartner, Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, Dennis Smith, Wataru Katsurashima, Tony Iams, Lucas Albuquerque, Michael Warrilow, Stephanie Bauman, 6 August 2025.
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- [3]Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, Andrew Humphreys, Andrew Comes, Keith Guttridge, Allan Wilkins, 19 May 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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