Get to know Azure
Build intelligent apps with advanced technology, tools, and services to take your business to the next level. Seamlessly unify your technology to simplify platform management and to deliver innovations efficiently and securely on a trusted cloud.
What is Azure?
Azure is acomprehensive,trusted cloud platform designed to help you efficiently manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions in one unified place. Azure is:
Trusted cloud and AI infrastructure services
Build and scale where you need to, safeguard your IT, grow responsibly and sustainably, and run AI on a proven infrastructure—with more regions than any other cloud provider.
An industry leader in strategic cloud platform services
Learn why Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services.
An adaptive cloud to seamlessly manage technology
Innovate on an adaptive cloud that extends and grows with your needs—across datacenter, multicloud, and edge environments. Scale apps across boundaries and unify teams, sites, and systems with built-in AI assistance.
Azure: Limitless innovation
Create today's solutions and tomorrow's breakthroughs—empowered by Microsoft Azure, the cloud the world trusts.
Innovate
Bring ideas to life
Build on a trusted platform to advance your organization with industry-leading AI and cloud services.
Unify
Seamlessly unify
Efficiently manage all your infrastructure, data, analytics, and AI solutions across an integrated platform.
Trust
Innovate on trust
Rely on trusted technology from a partner who’s dedicated to security and responsibility.
See the impact
Increase the speed and efficiency of innovation while optimizing the return on your investment.
See customer innovation in action
Learn how organizations around the world successfully drive innovation, optimize costs, and expand capabilities on Azure.
The NBA uses AI to analyze players' performance data
H&R Block simplifies tax preparation with a powerful AI tax assistant
HP embraces GitHub Copilot, boosts software innovation and speed
Vodafone amplifies call center innovation, customer service, and employee inclusion with Azure AI
DICK’S Sporting Goods creates an omnichannel athlete experience using Azure Arc and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Inflection AI accelerates development time with its Pi chatbot and Azure AI infrastructure
Frequently asked questions
- Azure is a cloud platform with industry-leading AI and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life. Use your preferred tools and frameworks to build, run, and manage applications across cloud, hybrid, and edge environments.
- Azure offers global enterprise scale, enhanced security, compliance, backup and recovery capabilities, as well as simplified management across multicloud and distributed environments and the flexibility to choose your preferred technology, tools, and languages. In addition, Azure provides access to industry-leading AI services, cloud infrastructure, and an intelligent data platform.
- Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.
- Yes, Azure is a highly secure cloud foundation managed by Microsoft—dedicated to security, data privacy, and responsible AI. Azure provides industry-leading, multilayered security across physical datacenters, infrastructure, and operations—with built-in resiliency features for high availability, disaster recovery, and backup.
- Start with Azure Fundamentals, an online training series exploring basic cloud concepts. Get a streamlined overview of Azure services and practical exercises to deploy your first service for free.
- Explore the Azure Well-Architected Framework—offering proven best practices, guidance, and resources to help you make informed decisions about cloud workload design, technology, and implementation.
Take the next step
Migrate to innovate
Build an agile AI-ready foundation, stay secure from code to cloud, and maximize ROI on a platform purpose-built for all workloads.
Understand the essentials
Get resources to improve reliability, security, and performance for your cloud and AI investments.
Gain insight from industry leaders
Learn strategies and approaches to AI innovation, infrastructure modernization, and optimization.
