Browse our growing directory of integrated Azure services, features, and bundled suites
Provision Windows and Linux virtual machines in minutes
Azure Virtual Machines lets you deploy a Windows Server or Linux image in the cloud. You can select images from a marketplace or use your own customized images.
Create web and mobile apps for any platform and any device
Azure App Service lets you create apps faster with a one-of-a kind cloud service to quickly and easily create enterprise-ready web and mobile apps for any platform or device and deploy them on a scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure.
Managed relational SQL Database-as-a-service
Azure SQL Database is a relational database service that lets you rapidly create, extend, and scale relational applications into the cloud.
Durable, highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage
Azure Storage offers non-relational data storage including Blob Storage, Table Storage, Queue Storage, and Files.
Create highly available, infinitely scalable cloud applications and APIs
Azure Cloud Services removes the need to manage server infrastructure. With web and worker roles, it lets you quickly build, deploy, and manage modern applications.
Managed NoSQL document database-as-a-service
Azure DocumentDB is a fully-managed NoSQL document database service that offers querying and transaction-processing over schema-free data, predictable and reliable performance, and rapid development.
Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
Azure Active Directory provides identity management and access control for your cloud applications. To simply user access to cloud applications, you can synchronize on-premises identities, and enable single sign-on. Azure Active Directory comes in 3 editions: Free, Basic, and Premium.
Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud
On your corporate laptops, Azure Backup protects Windows client data and shared files and folders. In your datacenter, integrated with System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), Backup protects Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, Hyper-V virtual machines, and other applications.
Provision cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters
Azure HDInsight is a Hadoop-based service that brings an Apache Hadoop solution to the cloud. Gain the full value of big data with a cloud-based data platform that manages data of any type and size.
Run large-scale parallel and batch compute jobs
Azure Batch makes it easy to run large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads in Azure. Use Batch to scale out parallel workloads, manage the execution of tasks in a queue, and cloud-enable applications to offload compute jobs to the cloud.
Store images for container deployments—Docker Swarm, DC/OS, and more
Azure Container Registry is a place to store and manage container images for all types of container deployments (Mesosphere DC/OS, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, App Service, Service Fabric, Azure Batch). The Azure Container Registry provides local, network-close storage of your container images. You can benefit from using familiar and open source Docker CLI tools to push and pull images from Azure Container registry.
Hybrid cloud storage for enterprises, reduces costs and improves data security
Azure StorSimple is a unique hybrid cloud storage solution for primary storage, archiving, and disaster recovery. StorSimple optimizes total storage costs and data protection. Note that the StorSimple 8000 Series is licensed separately from Azure services.
Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software
Visual Studio Team Services is a cloud-based application lifecycle management (ALM) solution for everything from hosted-code repositories and issue-tracking to load-testing and automated builds. It's accessible from nearly anywhere, and you can create an account for free. Visual Studio Team Services is licensed separately from Azure services.
Publish APIs to developers, partners and employees securely and at scale
Azure API Management lets you publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale.
Connect, monitor, and control billions of IoT assets
Jumpstart your Internet of Things project with Microsoft Azure IoT Hub. Connect, monitor, and control billions of IoT assets running on a broad set of operating systems and protocols. Establish reliable, bi-directional communication with these assets, even if they’re intermittently connected, and analyze—and act on—incoming telemetry data. Enhance the security of your IoT solutions by using per-device authentication to communicate with devices that have the appropriate credentials. Revoke access rights to specific devices to maintain the integrity of your system.
Deliver content to end-users through a robust network of global data centers
Azure Content Delivery Network lets you deliver high-bandwidth content to users around the world with low latency and high availability via a robust network of global data centers.
Dedicated private network fiber connections to Azure
Azure ExpressRoute lets you create private connections between Azure datacenters and infrastructure that’s on your premises or in a colocation environment.
Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds
Azure Site Recovery helps you protect important applications by coordinating the replication and recovery of private clouds for simple, cost-effective disaster recovery.
Host your DNS domain in Azure
Azure DNS lets you host your DNS domains alongside your Azure apps and manage DNS records by using your existing Azure subscription. Microsoft’s global network of name servers has the reach, scale, and redundancy to ensure ultra-fast DNS responses and ultra-high availability for your domains. With Azure DNS, you can be sure your DNS will always be fast and available.
Powerful cloud based predictive analytics tool to enable predictive maintenance
Azure Machine Learning lets you easily design, test, operationalize, and manage predictive analytics solutions in the cloud.
Build and operate always-on, scalable, distributed applications
Service Fabric is a microservices platform used to build scalable, reliable, and easily managed applications for the cloud. Addressing the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud applications, Service Fabric allows developers and administrators to avoid solving complex infrastructure problems and focus instead on implementing mission-critical, demanding workloads.
Safeguard access to your data and apps with an extra level of authentication
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication helps prevent unauthorized access to on-premises and cloud applications by providing an additional layer of authentication. Follow organizational security and compliance standards while also addressing user demand for convenient access.
Detect, triage, and diagnose issues in your web apps and services
Application Insights (in preview) is an all-in-one telemetry solution that can help you detect issues, triage impact and solve problems in your web apps and services. It provides deep diagnostics and real-time insights while being a seamless part of your ALM processes through Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure Diagnostics integrations. It supports ASP.NET, J2EE and most of the popular web technologies for web apps on Azure or on your own servers.
Elastic data warehouse-as-a-service with enterprise-class features
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an elastic data warehouse as a service with enterprise-grade features based on the massively parallel SQL Server processing architecture. It lets you scale data, either on-premises or in our cloud. It’s the first cloud data warehouse that can dynamically grow or shrink, so you pay only for the query performance that you need, when you need it, up to petabyte-scale. SQL Data Warehouse lets you use your existing Transact-SQL (T-SQL) skills to integrate queries across structured and unstructured data. SQL Data Warehouse integrates with our data platform tools, including Azure HDInsight, Machine Learning, and Data Factory and Microsoft Power BI for a complete data-warehousing and business-intelligence solution in the cloud. With SQL Data Warehouse, you choose where to keep your data, either in the cloud or on-premises, based on your performance, security, and scale requirements.
Provision private networks, optionally connect to on-premises datacenters
Azure Virtual Network lets you create private networks in the cloud with full control over IP addresses, DNS servers, security rules, and traffic flows. Securely connect a virtual network to on-premises networks by using a VPN tunnel, or connect privately by using the ExpressRoute service.
Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale
Azure Media Services offers cloud-based media solutions, including ingest, encoding, format conversion, content protection, and both on-demand and live-streaming capabilities.
Real-time data stream processing from millions of IoT devices
Azure Stream Analytics is an event-processing engine that helps you gain insights from devices, sensors, cloud infrastructure, and existing data properties in real-time. It's integrated out of the box with Event Hubs, and the combined solution can both ingest millions of events and do analytics to help you better understand patterns, power a dashboard, detect anomalies, or kick off an action while data is being streamed in real time.
Join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers
Azure Active Directory Domain Services provide scalable, high-performance, managed domain services such as domain-join, LDAP, Kerberos, Windows Integrated Authentication and Group Policy support. With the click of a button, administrators can enable managed domain services for virtual machines and directory-aware applications deployed in Azure Infrastructure Services. Built on the same underlying technology as Windows Server Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Domain Services provide an easy way to migrate traditional on-premises applications to the cloud.
Your personalized Azure best practices recommendation engine
Azure Advisor is a personalized recommendation engine that helps you follow Azure best practices. It analyzes your Azure resource configuration and usage telemetry, then provides recommendations that can reduce costs and improve the performance, security, and reliability of your applications.
Receive telemetry from millions of devices
Azure Event Hubs enables elastic-scale telemetry and event ingestion with durable buffering and sub-second end-to-end latency for millions of devices and events.
Orchestrate and manage data transformation and movement
Azure Data Factory is a managed service that lets you produce trusted information from raw data in cloud or on-premises sources. Easily create, orchestrate, and schedule highly-available, fault-tolerant work flows of data movement and transformation activities. Monitor service health and all of your data pipelines at a glance with a rich visual experience offered through the Azure portal.
Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets
Azure Key Vault offers an easy, cost-effective way to safeguard keys and other secrets in the cloud by using hardware security modules (HSMs). Protect cryptographic keys and small secrets like passwords with keys stored in HSMs. For added assurance, import or generate your keys in HSMs that are certified to FIPS 140-2 level 2 and Common Criteria EAL4+ standards, so that your keys stay within the HSM boundary. Key Vault is designed so that Microsoft does not see or extract your keys. Create new keys for Dev-Test in minutes and migrate seamlessly to production keys managed by security operations. Key Vault scales to meet the demands of your cloud applications without the hassle required to provision, deploy, and manage HSMs and key management software.
Connect across private and public cloud environments
Azure Service Bus is a messaging infrastructure that sits between applications allowing them to exchange messages for improved scale and resiliency.
Consumer identity and access management in the cloud
Azure Active Directory, the cloud service with the proven ability to handle billions of authentications per day, extends its capabilities to manage consumer identities with a new service: Azure Active Directory B2C, now in public preview. Azure Active Directory B2C is a comprehensive, identity management solution for your consumer-facing applications that can be easily integrated to any platform, and accessible from any device. The service will be free during the public preview period.
Run your jobs on simple or complex recurring schedules
Azure Scheduler lets you invoke actions that call HTTP/S endpoints or post messages to a storage queue on any schedule. Create jobs that reliably call services either inside or outside of Azure and run those jobs right away, on a regular or irregular schedule, or at a future date.
Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts
Azure DevTest Labs makes it easy to quickly create environments to deploy and test applications. Use reusable templates and artifacts to build Windows and Linux environments while minimalizing waste and controlling costs.
A scalable, push notification engine for quickly sending millions of messages
A scalable, push notification engine for quickly sending millions of messages
Simplify cloud management with process automation
Azure Automation lets you create, deploy, monitor, and maintain resources in your Azure environment automatically by using a highly scalable and reliable workflow execution engine.
Collect, search and visualize machine data from on-premises and cloud
Azure Log Analytics lets you collect, correlate and visualize all your machine data, such as event logs, network logs, performance data, and much more, from both your on-premises and cloud assets.
Prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility
Azure Security Center helps you prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility and control over the security of all of your Azure resources. It provides a central view of security across your subscriptions and lets you set policies and monitor security configurations. Policy-driven recommendations guide resource owners through the process of implementing security controls and enable the rapid deployment of integrated Microsoft and partner solutions. Using Microsoft global threat intelligence, security-related events from across your Azure deployments are automatically collected and analyzed to identify actual threats and reduce false alarms. The resulting alerts offer insights into the attack and suggest ways to remediate issues.
Seamlessly integrate the enterprise and the cloud
Azure BizTalk Services is a powerful and extensible cloud-based integration service. It provides B2B and EAI capabilities for delivering cloud and hybrid integration solutions.
Route incoming traffic for high performance and availability
Azure Traffic Manager lets you route incoming traffic across multiple hosted Azure services, whether they’re running in the same datacenter or in different datacenters around the world.
High throughput, low latency data access to build fast and scalable applications
Azure Redis Cache—based on the popular open source Redis cache—gives you access to a secure, dedicated cache for your Azure applications.
Fully-managed search-as-a-service
Azure Search is a fully-managed service for adding sophisticated search capabilities to web and mobile applications without the typical complexities of full-text search.
Deliver high availability and network performance to your applications
Azure Load Balancer distributes Internet and private network traffic among healthy service instances in cloud services or virtual machines. It lets you achieve greater reliability and seamlessly add more capacity to your applications.
Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity
Azure VPN Gateway lets you establish secure, cross-premises connections between your virtual network within Azure and on-premises IT infrastructure.
Layer 7 Load Balancer with built-in HTTP load balancing and delivery control
Azure Application Gateway is an Azure-managed layer-7 solution providing HTTP load balancing, SSL termination, and session-based cookie affinity to Internet-facing or internal web applications.
Data source discovery to get more value from existing enterprise data assets
Azure Data Catalog is a fully managed service that serves as a system of registration and system of discovery for enterprise data sources. It lets users—from analysts to data scientists to developers—register, discover, understand, and consume data sources. Use crowdsourced annotations and metadata to capture tribal knowledge within your organization, shine light on hidden data, and get more value from your enterprise data sources.
Manage and scale 10s to 1000s of Linux and Windows VMs
VM Scale sets make it easy to build highly scalable applications by allowing you to easily deploy and manage identical VMs as a set. Built on the Azure Resource Manager deployment model, VM Scale sets are fully integrated with Azure load balancing and autoscale, and support Windows, Linux, custom images, and extensions.
Embed fully interactive, stunning data visualizations in your applications
Power BI Embedded provides stunning, fully interactive data visualizations in your customer-facing apps without the time and expense of having to build it from the ground up.
Increase app usage and user retention
Azure Mobile Engagement lets you maximize mobile app usage and revenue. It's an SaaS-delivered, data-driven user-engagement platform that enables real-time, fine-grained user segmentation, app user analytics, and contextually-aware smart-push notifications and in-app messaging across all connected devices. It closes the marketing loop for app developers and marketers, letting them get directly in touch with all of their customers in a personal, contextually-aware, and non-intrusive way, and at the right time.
Hyperscale repository for big data analytics workloads
The Data Lake store provides a single repository where you can capture data of any size type and speed simply without forcing changes to your application as the data scales. In the store, data can be shared for collaboration with enterprise-grade security. It is also designed for high-performance processing and analytics from HDFS applications (ie. Azure HDInsight, Data Lake analytics service, Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR) and tools, including support for low latency workloads. For example, data can be ingested in real-time from sensors and devices for IoT solutions, or from online shopping websites into the store without the restriction of fixed limits on account or file size unlike current offerings in the market.
Distributed analytics service that makes big data easy
The Data Lake analytics service is a new distributed analytics service built on Apache YARN that dynamically scales so you can focus on your business goals, not on distributed infrastructure. Instead of deploying, configuring and tuning hardware, you write queries to transform your data and extract valuable insights. The analytics service can handle jobs of any scale instantly by simply setting the dial for how much power you need. You only pay for your job when it is running making it cost-effective. The analytics service supports Azure Active Directory letting you simply manage access and roles, integrated with your on-premises identity system. It also includes U-SQL, a language that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive power of user code. U-SQL’s scalable distributed runtime enables you to efficiently analyze data in the store and across SQL Servers in Azure, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Add smart API capabilities to enable contextual interactions
A portfolio of APIs and SDKs that enable developers to easily add intelligent services, such as vision, speech, language, knowledge and search capabilities, to their solutions.
Intelligent, serverless bot service that scales on demand
Azure Bot Service enables rapid intelligent bot development, bringing together the power of the Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Functions. Build, connect, deploy and manage intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking. Allow your bots to scale based on-demand and you pay only for the resources you consume.
Use Docker based tools to deploy and manage containers
Azure Container Service is a container hosting environment optimized for Azure that lets you deploy, scale, and orchestrate container-based applications using Docker Swarm and Apache Mesos—popular, open source tools you’re already familiar with.
Dynamically stretch on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure
With SQL Server Stretch Database, you can dynamically stretch warm and cold transactional data from Microsoft SQL Server to Azure. Unlike typical cold data storage, your data is always at hand. Stretch Database lets you provide longer data retention times than typical enterprise storage without breaking the bank. Depending on how often you’ll access the data, choose the appropriate level of service, then scale up or down as needed. Using Stretch Database doesn’t require any application changes. And you can use Stretch Database with new Always Encrypted technology, which helps protect your data at rest and in motion—extending data in a more secured manner for greater peace of mind.
Deploy mobile apps, collect feedback and crash reports, and monitor usage
HockeyApp lets you distribute beta versions, collect live crash reports, and get feedback from real users – all to enable you to build the world’s best mobile apps.
Process events with serverless code
Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience. You can leverage Azure Functions to build HTTP endpoints accessible by mobile and IoT devices.
Automate the access and use of data across clouds without writing code
A feature of App Service
Automate the access and use of data across clouds without writing code
Learn how to transform your business with big data and advanced analytics
Learn how to transform your business with big data and advanced analytics
Data Factory
Data Catalog
Event Hubs
Machine Learning
Data Lake Analytics
Stream Analytics
Cognitive Services
Power BI Embedded
Capture and analyze untapped data to improve business results
Capture and analyze untapped data to improve business results
Azure IoT Hub
Machine Learning
Stream Analytics
Notification Hubs
Power BI Embedded
Manage and protect your cloud and on-premises infrastructure
Manage and protect your cloud and on-premises infrastructure
Log Analytics
Security Center
Automation
Backup
Site Recovery
Deliver content to virtually all devices with scale to meet business needs
A feature of Media Services
Deliver content to virtually all devices with scale to meet business needs
Securely deliver content using AES, PlayReady, Widevine, and Fairplay
A feature of Media Services
Securely deliver content using AES, PlayReady, Widevine, and Fairplay
Provision virtual machines for Ubuntu, Red Hat, and more
A feature of Virtual Machines
Provision virtual machines for Ubuntu, Red Hat, and more
Provision virtual machines for SQL Server, SharePoint, and more
A feature of Virtual Machines
Provision virtual machines for SQL Server, SharePoint, and more
Easily evaluate sentiment and topics to understand what users want
A feature of Cognitive Services
Easily evaluate sentiment and topics to understand what users want
Tap into the wealth of academic content in the Microsoft Academic Graph
A feature of Cognitive Services
Tap into the wealth of academic content in the Microsoft Academic Graph
Cost-effective moderation of text, image and video content
A feature of Cognitive Services
Cost-effective moderation of text, image and video content
Convert speech to text and back again to understand user intent
A feature of Cognitive Services
Convert speech to text and back again to understand user intent
Use the power of predictive language models trained on web-scale data
A feature of Cognitive Services
Use the power of predictive language models trained on web-scale data
Teach your apps to understand commands from your users
A feature of Cognitive Services
Teach your apps to understand commands from your users
Use speech to identify and authenticate individual speakers
A feature of Cognitive Services
Use speech to identify and authenticate individual speakers
Web, image, video, and news search APIs for your app
A feature of Cognitive Services
Web, image, video, and news search APIs for your app
Detect and correct spelling mistakes in your app
A feature of Cognitive Services
Detect and correct spelling mistakes in your app
Speech and Vision services at enterprise scale, compliance, security and reach
A feature of Media Services
Speech and Vision services at enterprise scale, compliance, security and reach
Host enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud
A feature of Virtual Machines
Host enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud
Highly granular and real-time monitoring data for any Azure resource.
Highly granular and real-time monitoring data for any Azure resource.
Enable security across datacenter environments, including nodes in your on-premises datacenters and other cloud service providers
Enable security across datacenter environments, including nodes in your on-premises datacenters and other cloud service providers
Ensure application availability and data protection
Ensure application availability and data protection
Continuous services and compliance with automation and configuration management
Continuous services and compliance with automation and configuration management
Manage IT resources with a simple and unified experience—no matter the platform or public cloud
Manage IT resources with a simple and unified experience—no matter the platform or public cloud
Easily translate text into more than 50 languages
A feature of Cognitive Services
Easily translate text into more than 50 languages
Proven analytical engine in the cloud
Proven analytical engine in the cloud
Transform your customer data into actionable insights
Transform your customer data into actionable insights
Run the largest SAP HANA workloads (OLTP and OLAP) of any hyperscale cloud provider
A feature of Virtual Machines
Run the largest SAP HANA workloads (OLTP and OLAP) of any hyperscale cloud provider