Azure specifically refers to the Microsoft Cloud computing platform, offering services like computing, storage, and networking, analytics, and AI. Essentially, the entire Microsoft Cloud runs on Azure.
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.
Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.
With Azure, you can take advantage of programs that help you reduce your costs—including using your existing Windows Server and SQL Server core licenses with Software Assurance or a subscription to save on cloud services.
Explore Microsoft Azure pricing with pay-as-you-go flexibility, no upfront costs, and full transparency to help you manage and optimize your cloud spend.
Choose from more than 3,000 services delivered by Microsoft and our partners, many of them at no charge. Find open source applications, frameworks, and templates, as well as single and multiple virtual machine images.
Explore how Microsoft optimizes and innovates at every layer of the infrastructure stack to deliver the best balance of performance, efficiency, and cost. Take advantage of Microsoft advancements in datacenter technology, including hardware, software, and cooling and power innovations.
Foundry Tools is the new name for the product collection previously known as Azure AI Services or Azure Cognitive Services. Foundry Tools are part of the broader Foundry platform, which unifies models, agents, and tools under one developer-friendly experience.
