Azure Services
Compute Services
On-demand, scalable computing resources with Linux and Windows options.
- Multiple VM sizes
- Auto-scaling
- Spot instances
- Reserved instances
Event-driven serverless compute platform with flexible pricing options.
- Consumption/Premium plans
- Durable Functions
- Multiple triggers
- Hybrid support
Run containers without managing servers.
- Fast startup
- Per-second billing
- Virtual network support
- Custom sizes
Managed Kubernetes service with free cluster management.
- Free control plane
- Auto-scaling
- Azure AD integration
- Virtual nodes
Storage Services
Massively scalable object storage for unstructured data.
- Access tiers
- Immutable storage
- Change feed
- Data Lake Gen2
High-performance, durable block storage for Azure Virtual Machines.
- Premium SSD/Standard HDD
- Encryption
- Snapshots
- Shared disks
Fully managed file shares in the cloud accessible via SMB.
- SMB protocol
- Cloud sync
- Azure AD integration
- Snapshots
Database Services
Fully managed SQL Server database engine in the cloud.
- Serverless
- Hyperscale
- Active geo-replication
- Automatic tuning
Globally distributed, multi-model database service.
- Multi-model
- Global distribution
- Five consistency levels
- Multiple APIs
Fully managed PostgreSQL database service.
- High availability
- Auto-scaling
- Intelligent performance
- Security features
Fully managed Redis cache service.
- Multiple tiers
- Geo-replication
- Data persistence
- Clustering
AI & Machine Learning
Access OpenAI's powerful language models including GPT-4, GPT-3.5, and DALL-E through Azure.
- GPT-4/GPT-3.5
- DALL-E 3
- Whisper
- Enterprise security
Enterprise-grade service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
- AutoML
- MLOps
- Designer
- Responsible AI
Extract information from images using computer vision algorithms.
- Image analysis
- OCR
- Spatial analysis
- Custom models
Speech to text, text to speech, speech translation, and speaker recognition.
- Real-time transcription
- Custom voices
- Translation
- Speaker identification
Build natural language understanding into apps, bots, and IoT devices.
- Intent recognition
- Entity extraction
- Pre-built domains
- Multi-language
AI-powered translation service supporting 100+ languages.
- Text translation
- Document translation
- Custom translation
- Real-time
Extract text, key-value pairs, and tables from documents using AI.
- Pre-built models
- Custom models
- Layout extraction
- Receipt processing
Build, deploy, and manage intelligent bots.
- Bot Framework
- Channels
- LUIS integration
- QnA Maker
Analytics & Big Data
Limitless analytics service with unified experience for data integration, big data, and data warehousing.
- Serverless/dedicated SQL
- Apache Spark
- Data Explorer
- Power BI integration
Scalable data storage and analytics service for big data workloads.
- No size limits
- Gen2 capabilities
- Hadoop compatible
- Security
Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for Azure.
- Collaborative notebooks
- MLflow
- Delta Lake
- Photon engine
Real-time analytics on fast-moving data streams.
- SQL queries
- Built-in ML
- Reference data
- Multiple outputs
Fully managed open-source analytics service for Hadoop, Spark, and more.
- Hadoop/Spark/Kafka
- Enterprise security
- SLA
- Integrated
Business analytics service to visualize data and share insights.
- Interactive reports
- Real-time dashboards
- Mobile apps
- AI insights
Networking & Content Delivery
Isolated network to securely run your resources in Azure.
- Subnets
- Network security groups
- VPN Gateway
- VNet peering
Global content delivery network for high-bandwidth content.
- Edge locations
- Dynamic site acceleration
- Rules engine
- Real-time analytics
High availability and network performance for applications.
- Layer 4
- Port forwarding
- Outbound rules
- Multi-region
Application-level routing and load balancing service with WAF.
- Layer 7
- SSL termination
- WAF
- URL-based routing
Host your DNS domain in Azure for high availability and performance.
- Anycast network
- Private DNS
- Alias records
- DNSSEC
Modern cloud CDN with intelligent routing and global load balancing.
- Global load balancing
- WAF
- Caching
- URL rewrite
Security & Identity
Identity and access management service for secure authentication and authorization.
- SSO
- MFA
- Conditional Access
- B2B/B2C
Safeguard cryptographic keys and secrets used by cloud applications.
- HSM-backed keys
- Certificate management
- Secret rotation
- Access policies
Unified security management and advanced threat protection.
- Security posture
- Threat protection
- Compliance
- Recommendations
Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR solution for intelligent security analytics.
- AI-powered
- Threat hunting
- Automation
- Incident management
Developer Tools
Complete DevOps toolchain for development teams.
- Azure Pipelines
- Azure Repos
- Azure Boards
- Azure Artifacts
Cloud-hosted pipelines for CI/CD to any platform in any language.
- Multi-platform
- Containers
- YAML pipelines
- Deployment gates
Unlimited cloud-hosted private Git and TFVC repositories.
- Git
- Pull requests
- Branch policies
- Code search
Messaging & Integration
Reliable cloud messaging as a service with queues and publish-subscribe topics.
- Sessions
- Transactions
- Duplicate detection
- Dead-letter queues
Big data streaming platform and event ingestion service.
- Millions of events/sec
- Capture to storage
- Kafka support
- Schema registry
Event routing service for reliable delivery at massive scale.
- Event subscriptions
- CloudEvents
- Webhook delivery
- Advanced filtering
Automate workflows and integrate apps, data, and services.
- Visual designer
- 400+ connectors
- Enterprise integration
- Hybrid
Management & Monitoring
Comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry.
- Metrics/Logs
- Application Insights
- Alerts
- Workbooks
Application Performance Management service for monitoring live applications.
- Live metrics
- Distributed tracing
- Profiler
- Availability tests