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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.

On-premises, hybrid, multicloud, or at the edge—create secure, future-ready cloud solutions on Azure

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Innovate faster and more flexibly—in any environment—using your favorite tools, languages, and frameworks.

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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.

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Build, train, and deploy machine learning

Azure Machine Learning

Add cognitive capabilities to apps with APIs

Azure Cognitive Services

Quickly deploy AI solutions for common business processes

Azure Applied AI Services

Add AI-powered content search to apps

Azure Cognitive Search

Create bots and connect them across channels

Azure Bot Services

Apply advanced language models to a variety of use cases

Azure OpenAI Service

Deploy VMs in seconds

Azure Virtual Machines

Provision VMs for Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, and other popular distributions

Linux virtual machines (VMs) in Azure

Get industry-leading performance for SQL

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Deploy scalable, protected virtualized infrastructure

Windows Virtual Machines

Trigger apps with serverless computing

Azure Functions

Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile

Azure App Service

Build, deploy, and scale web apps on a fully managed platform

Azure App Service

Trigger apps with serverless computing

Azure Functions

Build and scale apps with managed Kubernetes

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Run containers without managing servers

Azure Container Instances

Build, deploy, and scale apps on fully managed OpenShift clusters

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Bring modern microservice patterns to Spring Boot apps

Azure Spring Cloud

Unify on-premises, hybrid, and cross-cloud infrastructure

Azure Arc

Build apps across on-premises, cloud, and the edge

Azure Stack

Stop threats with intelligent security analytics

Azure Sentinel

Extend threat protection to any infrastructure

Azure Security Center

Create secure, private clouds

Azure ExpressRoute

Enable single sign-on and multifactor identification

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

Build IoT solutions on a hosted platform

Azure IoT Central

Deploy cloud intelligence on local edge devices

Azure IoT Edge

Authenticate communication across devices, edge, and cloud

Azure IoT Hub

Create models of physical environments

Azure Digital Twins

Secure your IoT hardware and software

Azure Sphere

Visualize IoT data in real time

Azure Time Series Insights

Find out how these customers are innovating with Azure

Basketball going through hoop.

To bring fans deeper into the game, NBA CourtOptix uses Azure machine learning and AI solutions to provide on-screen analysis of every shot, pass, and play.

Person dunking an Oreo cookie into a glass of milk.

Mondelēz International dramatically improved app performance, availability, and resilience by migrating its business-critical SAP resources to Azure.

Worker loading cans of Pepsi into a refrigerator.

PepsiCo uses Azure Machine Learning to identify consumer shopping trends and provide actionable, store-level insights.

People can get medical help by NHS.

To deliver healthcare quickly and at scale during the global pandemic, the NHS rearchitected its systems using the Azure Well-Architected Framework.

Person in a factory using a tablet to check the performance data of a robotic manufacturing arm.

Bosch Building Technologies used Azure to expand and globally deploy a platform that analyzes energy consumption and helps pursue ongoing energy efficiency.

Airplane cockpit with digital display.

GE Digital helps pilots make the skies safer with data and analytics provided through its FlightPulse app—built using the open-source .NET platform.

Accelerate your migration and modernization with Azure

Discover what’s happening on Azure

See how game developers at Rare use Azure PlayFab to dynamically scale and seamlessly migrate players through shared worlds in Sea of Thieves.

See how game developers at Rare use Azure PlayFab to dynamically scale and seamlessly migrate players through shared worlds in Sea of Thieves.

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