Azure Active Directory Domain Services Alternatives (September 2025)

Learn about Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) a cloud identity and access management solution that safeguards your data.

Engage with your customers across multiple platforms and simplify the sign-in experience with Azure Active Directory B2C.

Azure Virtual Desktop combines the scale, security, and cost benefits of Azure and Microsoft 365 for a secure remote desktop from virtually anywhere.

Personalize and help secure access with Microsoft Entra External ID, a customer identity and access management solution for managing all external identities.

Learn about Azure Virtual Network. Create your own private network in the cloud. View features and build a hybrid IT infrastructure you can control.

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

Built on the proven analytical engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade data modeling in the cloud.

Azure Lab Services provides secure, sharable virtual labs in the cloud with on-demand or scheduled access to preconfigured virtual machines.

Build Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) and save up to 80 percent with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server.

Strengthen your cloud environment with the key features and best practices of Permissions Management

Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.

View pricing details for Azure DNS. Host your domain in Azure for outstanding performance and availability.

Build, manage, and monitor all your apps in Microsoft Azure Portal. A single, unified hub built for you, your team, and your projects.

For assessment and data migration software, choose Azure Database Migration Service for moving on-premises SQL Server and Oracle databases to the cloud.

Build apps faster and scale automatically on Azure SQL Database, the intelligent, fully managed relational cloud database.

Migrate and build apps. Azure App Service is a fully managed platform for creating web applications. The app service offers a range of app development plans and services.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service with hardened security and fast delivery. Deploy and manage containerized applications with AKS.

Softerra Adaxes is an enterprise-grade management and automation solution that provides enhanced administration experience to Active Directory, Exchange and Microsoft 365 environments.

Store images for all types of container deployments and OCI artifacts, using Azure Container Registry.

Azure Blob storage provides scalable, cost-efficient object storage in the cloud. Store and access unstructured data for your most demanding workloads.

Learn about high-performance block storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Explore cost-effective options with cloud Ultra, SSD, and HDD disks.

Use a highly available, hardened service running an actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD), managed by Google Cloud.

Make autoscaling your VMs easier with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Run thousands of virtual machines in minutes based on customizable metrics.

Build, manage, and deliver solutions through the Azure Marketplace or Service Catalog with Azure Managed Applications.

Azure API Apps give you the tools to develop, host, secure, and share REST APIs in your organization or with the world.

Learn about Azure Cloud Services, which helps you deploy and scale powerful cloud applications and APIs. Supports Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, and more.

Build real-world Web3 applications using Azure, Web3 developer tools, and security services.

Reach wider audiences on the devices they use with cloud video streaming, encoding, and indexing services from Azure Media Services.

Bring your own containers and deploy to App Service as a web app running on Linux in seconds using Web App for Containers feature of Azure App Service.

Run complex, performance-intensive and latency-sensitive applications in the cloud—without any code change.

A browser-based shell experience in the cloud that’s maintained by Microsoft to manage Azure resources with popular command-line tools and programming languages

Simplify how you manage your app resources with Azure Resource Manager. Deploy resources together, categorize them for easy billing, and enable access control.

Azure API Management offers a scalable, multi-cloud API management platform for securing, publishing, and analyzing APIs.

Provides an overview of Remote Desktop Services.

Manage billions of IoT devices with Azure IoT Hub, a cloud platform that lets you easily connect, monitor, provision, and configure IoT devices.

Cyber resilience, migration and modernization for Active Directory, Entra ID and Microsoft 365 management solutions.

Safeguard cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and services with Microsoft Azure Key Vault. Try it now.

Learn about Azure Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift service managed by Microsoft and Red Hat with Kubernetes PaaS at its core. Discover a turnkey container platform.

Get an overview Azure managed disks, which handle the storage accounts for you when you're using virtual machines.

Try Azure Database for PostgreSQL to build reliable and intelligent applications for your organization. Explore open-source PostgreSQL database.

Learn how Azure Stack brings the agility of cloud computing to your on-premises environment.

Lower TCO. Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud to get the HA/DR and security of SQL Server combined with the flexibility and hybrid connectivity of Azure.

With Azure SignalR Service, adding real-time communications to your web application is as simple as provisioning a service.

Use Azure Arc solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud management to run Azure services anywhere. Accelerate innovation with Azure Arc–enabled data services.

Connect Active Directory to AWS resources or set up a new directory on AWS for your directory-aware workloads.

Use the Azure Migrate hub of cloud migration tools and services to assess your current workloads and plan and implement your migration to Azure.

Learn about how Azure confidential computing protects data in use and learn ways to build confidential workloads in the cloud.

Azure Policy is a service in Azure, that you use to create, assign and, manage policy definitions in your Azure environment.

Keep connected with Azure Service Bus, a cloud messaging system for connecting apps and devices across public and private clouds.

Secure your network and devices, manage device and application updates, and receive long-term OS support with Windows 10 IoT Core Services.

Protect your data with Azure Sphere, a turnkey IoT device security and IoT platform solution for intelligent edge devices and microcontrollers.

Microsoft Defender for Identity helps protect your organization’s on-premises identities from advanced threats and manage identity risk.

Run application containers in the cloud with a single command. Get started in seconds and lower your infrastructure costs with per-second billing.

Learn about Azure Content Delivery Network, a secure and reliable global content delivery and acceleration solution.

Learn about the Azure Traffic Manager DNS load balancer. Improve app performance with automatic DNS traffic management services across datacenters.

Learn about Azure Automation, a cloud automation service for process automating those long-running, error-prone, frequently repeated tasks with Windows PowerShell.

Microsoft multifactor authentication (MFA) adds a layer of protection to the sign-in process and helps protect your organization against security breaches.

Easily manage your Azure storage accounts in the cloud, from Windows, macOS, or Linux, using Azure Storage Explorer.

Reduce costs using cost optimization and analysis through Microsoft Cost Management. Increase transparency, accuracy, and efficiency in cost management.

Enjoy fast, private cloud connections—including MPLS VPN connections—between Azure and on-premises datacenters with Azure ExpressRoute.

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers.

Build, debug, deploy, and manage cloud applications—using any platform or language—with Azure development tools, including Visual Studio.

This article provides an overview of Azure Front Door.

An LDAP-based directory that makes it easier to manage user access to multiple systems.

At Build, we announced the latest update of Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that is fully operational right out of the box.

Protect against ransomware with a centralized cloud backup service and solution.

Protect, monitor, and report on your Azure Virtual Network resources using Azure Firewall, a cloud-native network security and analytics solution.

JumpCloud's revolutionary directory unifies device and identity on Windows, Mac, and Linux with cloud based SSO, MDM, MFA, PAM, and more.

Get more value from your enterprise data assets with Azure Data Catalog. Spend less time looking for data and more time getting value from it. Get started today.

Connect business offices, retail locations, and sites securely with Virtual WAN, a unified wide-area network portal powered by Azure and the Microsoft global network.

Run your production workloads on hybrid, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) with Azure-Arc enabled Azure Stack HCI. Modernize your edge computing environments.

JumpCloud makes it simple to manage Windows, Apple, Linux, and Android devices and to deliver secure access with SSO, MFA, Zero Trust, RADIUS, and more.

Learn how Azure App Service helps you develop and host web applications.

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL and relational database for modern app development. Start building applications with a free trial.

Learn about Azure Batch, a Microsoft cloud computing service for running large-scale parallel and batch compute jobs.

Learn about Azure Web Application Firewall, a firewall service that helps improve web app security.

Discover Azure Data Factory, the easiest cloud-based hybrid data integration service and solution at an enterprise scale. Build data factories without the need to code.

Learn how Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery integrate to provide an end-to-end backup and disaster recovery solution with unlimited scale.

Azure Archive Storage provides a low cost means of delivering durable, highly available, secure cloud storage and data management for rarely accessed data.

Auditing, Alerting, Management and Reporting tools for Active Directory, Windows File System, Exchange, O365, Azure Active Directory and SharePoint.

Connect cloud intelligence to your edge devices with Azure IoT Edge, a comprehensive service that deploys artificial intelligence and custom logic to IoT devices.

Advance your team's identity management with Crowd. Sign sign-on and centralized identity management to create a seamless login experience.

NetApp offers many cloud services, including the rapid provisioning of virtual desktop with WVD or Remote Applications, including rapid integration with Azur...

Learn how to get started with the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) to create and manage Azure resources — explore guides, tutorials, samples, articles, and more.

Protect your data, apps, and infrastructure against rapidly evolving cyberthreats with cloud security services from Microsoft Security.

Directory Services Protector (DSP) provides continuous Active Directory threat detection and response, including automated remediation.

Delinea's Cloud Suite is a unified PAM platform for managing privileged access in multi-cloud infrastructure. Enforce PAM policies dynamically.

Share code, track work, and ship software using integrated developer tools, hosted on-premises with Azure DevOps Server

Active Directory Management Tools for PCI,ISO, ITIL, NSA, HIPAA, DSS, SOX,DISA, IAVA, GLBA, Audit Compliance and LDAP Password Management Solutions.

Azure OpenAI Service offers industry-leading coding and language AI models that you can fine-tune to your specific needs for a variety of use cases.

Azure Advisor is a recommendation service that analyzes your configurations and usage, then helps you follow Azure best practices to optimize your deployments.

Get 10 free parallel jobs for cloud-based CI/CD pipelines for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Automate builds and easily deploy to any cloud with Azure Pipelines.

Google Cloud’s Identity-Aware Proxy implements zero-trust access for Google Cloud resources.

Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise SQL data warehousing and big data analytics services.

Azure Table storage provides a NoSQL key-value store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets. Get started today.

The top-rated FTP Server solution for fast, reliable, secure enterprise file transfer via FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS, and MFT solutions.

Gain end-to-end observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network both on cloud and hybrid environments with Azure Monitor.

Azure Virtual Desktop Management and Windows 365 solutions for Managed Service Providers & Enterprise IT professionals (Nerdio Manager).

Automation to detect, remediate, investigate, and analyze risk data with Microsoft Entra ID Protection