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INVENT WITH PURPOSE
Azure. Create the games that you would play.
Build, run, distribute, and help secure your apps and games at global scale. Start with an Azure free account, 12 months of popular services free, and a $200 credit.
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On-premises, hybrid, multicloud, or at the edge—create secure, future-ready cloud solutions on Azure
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Use your favorite open-source tools on Azure
Innovate faster and more flexibly—in any environment—using your favorite tools, languages, and frameworks.
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April 5: Innovate for Impact digital event
Join this event to gain insights into driving business growth with application innovation.
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It’s game over for latency
Bring your games closer to players on Azure—the cloud with the most global regions, including China.
Start putting your ideas into action with Azure products and services
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Trigger apps with serverless computing
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Build and operate live games using a single platform
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Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile
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Add cognitive capabilities to apps with APIs
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Create bots and connect them across channels
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Apply advanced language models to a variety of use cases
Deploy VMs in seconds
Provision VMs for Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, and other popular distributions
Get industry-leading performance for SQL
Deploy scalable, protected virtualized infrastructure
Trigger apps with serverless computing
Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile
Build, deploy, and scale web apps on a fully managed platform
Trigger apps with serverless computing
Build and scale apps with managed Kubernetes
Run containers without managing servers
Build, deploy, and scale apps on fully managed OpenShift clusters
Bring modern microservice patterns to Spring Boot apps
Unify on-premises, hybrid, and cross-cloud infrastructure
Build apps across on-premises, cloud, and the edge
Stop threats with intelligent security analytics
Extend threat protection to any infrastructure
Create secure, private clouds
Enable single sign-on and multifactor identification
Build IoT solutions on a hosted platform
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Authenticate communication across devices, edge, and cloud
Create models of physical environments
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Find out how these customers are innovating with Azure
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Discover what’s happening on Azure
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MICROSOFT GAME DEVELOPMENT
Explore more Microsoft solutions to empower game developers.
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GREAT TOOLS TO BUILD GREAT GAMES
Learn how to build your game in the cloud with help from Azure.
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OPEN SOURCE LEARNING RESOURCES
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