Get to know Azure
Turn your ideas into innovation with trusted Azure products and services
Start building with an Azure free account and get:
- 12 months of popular free services
- More than 25 always-free services
- $200Â credit to explore Azure for 30 days
Invent with purpose.
Achieve your goals with the freedom and flexibility to build, manage and deploy your applications anywhere. Use your preferred languages, frameworks and infrastructure—even your own datacenter and other clouds—to solve challenges large and small.
With help from Azure, you have everything you need to build your next great solution.
Trust your cloud
Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments and startups.
Operate hybrid seamlessly
On-premises, across multiple clouds and at the edge—we will meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with tools and services designed for hybrid cloud.
Build on your terms
You have choices. With a commitment to open source and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want and deploy where you want to.
Be future-ready
Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow.
Azure is global. Azure is local.
Create extraordinary experiences for all of your customers—whether they’re right next door or on the other side of the world. With datacenters in more global regions, the largest compliance portfolio of any cloud provider, and a bold commitment to sustainability, you don’t need to choose between quantity and quality when you build on Azure.
Pay less on Azure
Take advantage of unique savings programs and learn why AWS is 5 times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server.
Meet any challenge with Azure—your partner in the cloud
Create your unique cloud strategy
Achieve your short- and long-term goals with a proven cloud adoption framework designed to help you create and align your business and technical strategies.
Migrate with confidence
Get free resources, tools and expert assistance to migrate your servers, apps, databases and other workloads to Azure.
Invent and ship faster
Accelerate developer creativity and time to market by removing friction through Developer Velocity.
Optimize costs to save money
Get more value from Azure with tools, offers and guidance to help you understand and forecast your bill, cost optimize your workloads and control your spending with cloud governance.
Improve your security
Help protect your business assets and data against evolving threats with built-in multilayered security and intelligent threat protection.
Gain deeper insights into your data
Transform your data into real-time insights with highly secure enterprise-scale analytics. And share data across your organization with dashboards and visualizations.