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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.

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

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

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

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

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

Build machine learning models in a simplified way with machine learning platforms from Azure. Machine learning as a service increases accessibility and efficiency.

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

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.

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.

Custom question answering is a cloud-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) service that easily creates a natural conversational layer over your data. It can be used to find the most appropriate answer for any given natural language input, from your custom project.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Learn more about AI Personalizer, part of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services—an AI personalization solution that improves user engagement by delivering relevant experiences.

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

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

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

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

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.

Easily develop and run massively parallel data transformation and processing programs in U-SQL, R, Python, and .NET over petabytes of data.

This article provides an overview of Azure Front Door.

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.

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

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

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

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

Explore AI Speech from Microsoft Azure that include speech recognition, text to speech, speech translation, voice-enabled app features, and more.

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

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

Learn about changes, improvements, and features in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2.

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

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

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

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.

Download and install the Azure SDKs and Azure PowerShell and command-line tools for management and deployment.

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

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

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

Microsoft Translator Text API is a cloud-based aka machine translation service used to build applications, websites, and tools.

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

The custom vision API from Microsoft Azure learns to recognize specific content in imagery and becomes smarter with training and time. Read on to learn more.

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

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

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

Overview of how to deploy SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances).

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.

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

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

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

Learn how to get started with making REST calls for Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision API

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Cloud for Sustainability empowers organizations to accelerate sustainability progress and business growth by bringing together ESG data and AI capabilities.

EMQX: The most scalable MQTT Broker for IoT. Connect 100M+ IoT devices in 1 cluster at 1ms latency. Move and process millions of MQTT messages per second.

See how a managed cloud services approach helps mitigate potential tension between traditional IT management and DevOps culture.

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

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

Learn about the many Hybrid Cloud benefits and Advantages that make a Hybrid Solution so Compelling to so many Businesses | Learn More with Rackspace

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

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

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.

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Provides an overview of Remote Desktop Services.

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

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Windows IoT product offerings and developer overview

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This article provides an introduction to Spark in HDInsight and the different scenarios in which you can use Spark cluster in HDInsight.