Overview
Empower your cloud and AI journey
- Implement with the latest design and governance to achieve reliable, secure, and sustainable projects.
- Manage and optimize every project to deliver business and IT objectives.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Accelerate success with Azure Essentials
USE CASES
Create secure, resilient, and cost-efficient Azure projects
Migrate and modernize your IT estate
Stay competitive, enhance security, and foster innovation.
Innovate with AI apps and agents
Leverage proven best practices to ensure your AI apps and agents are production-ready.
Unify your data platform
Design and operate data-centric environments that are reliable, secure, and cost efficient.
Operationalize security
Leverage actionable guidance and automated tools to design, protect, and operate secure Azure environments.
Become resilient by default
Start, get, and stay resilient. Build and operate resilient cloud solutions.
Maximize cost efficiency
Use proven strategies and solutions to make the most of investments while enabling financially efficient outcomes.
RESEARCH
Accelerate migration and AI adoption
Read a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting to discover the potential cost savings and benefits of Azure cost optimization solutions.1
CUSTOMER STORIES
See how customers are enhancing their Azure investments
RESOURCES
Discover Azure Essentials resources
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Azure Accelerate
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Azure support plans
Get access to technical support and guidance for your Azure workloads.
Next steps
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- [1]The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Azure Solutions That Enhance Cost Efficiency: Accelerating Cloud Migration and AI Adoption With Azure Solutions, a Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Microsoft, June 2025.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed eight decision-makers with experience using the evaluated Azure solutions. For the purposes of this study, Forrester aggregated the interviewees’ experiences and combined the results into a single composite organization, a global enterprise with $1 billion in annual revenue that is migrating to the cloud to modernize and innovate with AI. It has an annual Azure spend of $12.5 million, which grows 5% year-over-year.
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