Azure ExpressRoute Alternatives (September 2025)

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

Connect your infrastructure to the cloud with Azure VPN Gateway. Connect your on-premises networks to Azure from anywhere with Site-to-Site VPNs.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

This article provides an overview of Azure Front Door.

Megaport offers scalable bandwidth for public and private cloud connections, metro ethernet, Data Centre backhaul, and Internet Exchange Services.

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.

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

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

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

Discover fast connectivity with Console Connect, a software-defined interconnection provider by PCCW Global. Simplify and secure your network connections here.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) isolates cloud resources with virtual private networks.

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

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

Manage, deploy, and patch your domain controllers in the cloud with Microsoft Entra Domain Services (formerly Azure Active Directory Domain Services).

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

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

AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service that links your network directly to AWS to deliver consistent, low-latency performance.

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

Google Cloud VPC is global, scalable, and flexible. It provides networking for Compute Engine VM, GKE containers, and the App Engine environment.

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.

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.

Get started today with Azure Premium Storage for low latency and high throughput storage suitable for I/O intensive applications.

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

AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications securely on AWS.

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

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

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

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

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

Virtual Private Cloud helps you build an isolated network environment based on Alibaba Cloud including customizing the IP address range, network segment, route table, and gateway.

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

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

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

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

Cloud NAT is a high-performance, scalable, reliable Google Cloud-managed Network Address Translation service.

Learn about Azure Event Hubs, a managed service that can ingest and process massive data streams from websites, apps, or devices.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Get best-in-class Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to ensure application availability and fast recovery. Protect your data with Azure Site Recovery.

CoreSite provides the foundation for your hybrid IT infrastructure with high-performance colocation, interconnected data center campuses and cloud onramps.

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

Efficient and cost effective solutions for business continuity and extreme availability on private or hybrid wide area networks, continuity business, Load Balancing, WAN Security, Dynamic Load Balancing

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

Learn how to use Azure Cache for Redis, a secure data cache and messaging broker that gives applications fast access to data. Tutorials, API references, and more.

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

Azure Quantum is a Microsoft Azure service that you can use to run quantum computing programs problems in the cloud.

Learn how to achieve LAN-like performance over the global WAN, throughout global private network. Deploy end-to-end WAN optimization in less than a week.

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

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

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

Use IPsec VPN tunnels to connect your peer network to your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network.

Learn how to use Azure StorSimple, an integrated storage solution that manages storage tasks between on-premises devices and Azure cloud storage.

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

Secure your private business network with a self-hosted VPN, Access Server, ideal for cloud or on-premise setups. Free with 2 simultaneous VPN connections.

AWS VPN establishes encrypted connections for hybrid connectivity networks with AWS Site-to-Site VPN and remote workforce access with AWS Client VPN.

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

Rely on mobile backend as a service (mbaas) from Azure to reduce time to market with cloud services, tools, and DevOps.

Store data of any size, shape, and speed with Azure Data Lake. Power your big data analytics, develop massively parallel programs, and scale with future growth.

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

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

Learn about Azure Notification Hubs. Send push notifications to iOS, Android, Windows, or Kindle from any backend. Easier mobile app development.

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.

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

Create event-driven, scalable serverless applications in .NET, Node.js, Python, Java, or PowerShell with the Azure Functions app— a serverless computing service.

Deliver content hosted on-premises or in another cloud over Google's high-performance distributed infrastructure.

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

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

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.

Stay competitive with virtual routing on demand. Learn more about Verizon's Virtual Network Services - Routing solution today.

CloudConnexa is an easy-to-deploy cloud VPN service that takes the complexity & high cost out of managing a secure network for a business.

Scale and enhance your WAN while you minimize risk using our fully-managed or co-managed SD-WAN solution and hybrid connectivity from Lumen.

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

Secure your infrastructure and empower your workforce. The SonicWall SMA solution provides secure remote access to corporate resources hosted across on-prem, cloud and hybrid datacenters.

Get HDInsight, an open-source analytics service that runs Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and more. Integrate HDInsight with big data processing by Azure for even more insights.

Oracle SD-WAN Edge solutions provide key network edge services critical to branch office simplification and simplified WAN management, including SD-WAN, routing, firewall, and WAN optimization, and offer flexible deployment options at the physical edge, the virtual edge, or in the cloud. Oracle SD-WAN enables enterprises to transform their traditional WAN, augmenting or replacing MPLS with high-bandwidth, inexpensive internet connections, and delivering a network that is easy to deploy and manage, but without requiring forklift upgrades. Thanks to patented technology that does continuous unidirectional measurement of all paths and offers subsecond response to not just link failures but also congestion-based brownouts, Oracle failsafe SD-WAN delivers better-than-MPLS high availability and exceptional QoE for applications site-to-site and site-to-cloud.

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

OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.

Aviatrix secure cloud networking software is purpose-built for your business, delivering enterprise-grade networking with security, agility, and cost-optimization in mind.

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

Try Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure now and get a native, cost-effective, secure and enterprise-ready Azure backup solution.