OVERVIEW
Explore the Azure AI difference
- Build, optimize, and govern AI apps and agents with a unified, interoperable AI platform.
- Get more than 11,000 models—including foundation, open, task, and industry-specific models—for your use cases.
- Leverage agent and multi-agent orchestration frameworks, tracing, and debugging tools.
- Provide context for retrieval-augmented generation at scale and automate workflows.
- Monitor and optimize AI with evaluations, safety filters, and robust security controls.
- Reimagine DevOps with AI agents that build, fix, and ship.
- Put developers at the center of innovation with an AI-infused development experience.
- Extend AI across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from ideation to coding, testing, and operations.
- Reduce time to market for AI apps and agents with AI platform services.
- Develop applications and agents with cloud databases built for AI scale and performance.
- Fuel apps and AI agents with any type or amount of data, at high performance.
- Use native vector search, langauge models, and Microsoft Foundry services right within your database.
- Enable powerful apps and AI agents with language models trained on unique organizational data.
- Get flexible deployment options and accelerate AI development with serverless GPUs.
- Improve developer experience through AI assistance, broad language support, and automation.
- Automatically scale for business growth and get AI-powered application performance management.
- Adjust spend with detailed cost analysis tools, policies, and intelligent recommendations.
- Extend AI innovation to the edge by running AI models locally with privacy and offline access.
- Enhance the safety of generative AI applications with advanced guardrails for responsible AI.
- Reduce risk with continuous observability and governance.
- Detect, prevent, and respond to emerging AI threats and vulnerabilities from agent creation to runtime.
- Find and fix vulnerabilities earlier in the software development lifecycle.
- Unlock human potential with AI you can trust.
Products
Everything you need to build AI apps and agents at scale
Microsoft Foundry
Bring AI apps and agents to production fast with Microsoft Foundry, an enterprise-grade AI platform with a comprehensive catalog of models, agents, and tools.
GitHub
Increase AI app and agent-development velocity and inspire continuous innovation with GitHub Copilot, the world’s most widely adopted AI developer tool.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Build AI-ready apps with a fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL.
Azure Cosmos DB
Power intelligent apps with high-performance, real-time data, ingested and processed at any scale.
Azure SQL Database
Fuel resource-intensive apps, keep mission-critical workloads running at peak performance, and modernize SQL data.
Azure Kubernetes Service
Develop, deploy, and scale cloud-native apps on managed Kubernetes in Azure or at the edge.
Azure App Service
Modernize and scale your applications to accelerate time to market and deliver new experiences.
Azure API Management
Enable intelligent and agentic apps by securely and easily exposing popular AI models to your intelligent app developers.
Foundry Models
Innovate faster with more than 11,000 models from creators such as Microsoft, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Meta, xAI, Black Forest Labs, Stability AI, Core42, Nixtla, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face.
Foundry Agent Service
Create AI agents that automate complex business processes, completing specific tasks while keeping humans in control.
Foundry tools
Build cutting-edge, market-ready AI applications with customizable tools, APIs, and models.
Foundry IQ (public preview)
Connect agents to one context layer for data, memory, and RAG pipelines.
Azure Machine Learning
Use an enterprise-grade AI service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
Content Safety in Foundry Control Plane
Enhance the safety of generative AI applications with advanced guardrails for responsible AI.
Foundry Local
Manage models, agents, and their components on Windows and MacOS devices.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Build AI-ready apps with a fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL.
Azure Cosmos DB
Power AI apps with high-performance and real-time data, ingested and processed at any scale.
Azure SQL Database
Fuel resource-intensive apps, keep mission-critical workloads running at peak performance, and modernize SQL data.
Azure HorizonDB (preview)
Build and scale mission-critical apps on high-performance PostgreSQL.
Azure Kubernetes Service
Develop, deploy, and scale cloud-native apps on managed Kubernetes in Azure or at the edge.
Azure App Service
Modernize and scale your applications to accelerate time to market and deliver new experiences.
Azure Container Apps
Run modern apps and microservices using serverless containers.
Azure Functions
Execute event-driven serverless code with an end-to-end development experience.
Azure API Management
Enable intelligent and agentic apps by securely and easily exposing popular AI models to your intelligent app developers.
Azure Managed Redis
Accelerate your AI application performance and empower RAG AI application development with the latest Redis innovations.
GitHub Copilot
Increase AI app- and agent-development velocity. Inspire continuous innovation with GitHub Copilot, the world’s most widely adopted AI developer tool.
GitHub Enterprise
Build, scale, and deliver secure software with the GitHub AI-powered developer platform.
Visual Studio
Empower your development journey and redefine the way you code with the seamless interoperation of the Visual Studio platform and GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Build your own agents and enhance Microsoft 365 Copilot using Copilot Studio.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect cloud and AI apps with security posture management and runtime threat protection.
Foundry Control Plane
Unify management to deliver visibility, governance, and control for AI agents, models, and tools.
GitHub Advanced Security
Fix security issues faster and reduce risk with GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security
USE CASES
Explore AI use cases
Unlock business innovation and improve customer experiences.
CUSTOMER STORIES
See how customers are innovating with Azure AI
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Azure Accelerate
Fuel your cloud and AI transformation with experts and investments throughout your AI adoption journey.
RESOURCES
Implement generative AI excellence
Next steps
Choose the Azure account that’s right for you
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E-book
PostgreSQL: Fueling AI Solutions
Build smarter apps and agents with the AI-ready Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
Business Solutions Hub
Find the right Microsoft Cloud solution
Browse the Microsoft Business Solutions Hub to find the products and solutions that can help your organization reach its goals.
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