Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets Alternatives (September 2025)

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Easily create and run online VMs on Google Cloud. Choose from preset or custom machine types for web servers, databases, AI, and more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is a feature that ensures the right number of EC2 instances are available for an application's load, maintaining availability by automatically adding or removing EC2 instances. To use Auto Scaling, in the EC2 Console, create a launch template, then create an Auto Scaling Group (ASG).

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

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

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

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you maintain application availability and define how to scale Amazon EC2 capacity to meet the demands of your application.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Auto Scaling is a service to automatically adjust computing resources based on your volume of user requests. When demands increase or decrease, Auto Scaling adds or removes ECS instances.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on your applications and network with integrated DDoS protection and mitigation services from Azure.

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

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

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

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

See how DesktopReady can cover your business or an individual. Making scaling easy, not to mention the unmatched security all on the Azure platform. Buy now.

Provides an overview of Remote Desktop Services.

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

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

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

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

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones (AZs).

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

Create Maven, npm, and NuGet package feeds from public and private sources. Share code, get security compliance, and add package sharing to pipelines.

Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) is a complete application delivery and VDI solution empowering the creation of digital workspaces! Read more.

A powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs).

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

The XtremeLabs Marketplace is now open! Purchase labs for Microsoft and other technology partners, instructor-led training courses, and integrated course materials. XtremeLabs builds award-winning products for popular technologies including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, CompTIA, VMware, cybersecurity, and many others.

BDRSuite provides the simplest yet efficient Backup and Recovery solution for VMware, Hyper-V, and Physical Servers, for all types of businesses.

InfoScale 8.0.2   Veritas InfoScale is a software-defined infrastructure solution that is integrated directly with applications to provide high availability and disaster recovery for critical business services, including databases, customer applications and multitiered business services. It delivers a common availability platform that supports physical, virtual, and all major public cloud environments, providing the flexibility to optimize availability for any platform based on business requirements.   To learn more about InfoScale and what it can do for you, please visit our InfoScale product page: https://www.veritas.com/availability/infoscale   What’s new in InfoScale 8.0.2   With this release, InfoScale expands on Veritas’ decades-long position as the leader in this space. InfoScale 8.0.2 introduces significant security and usability improvements while simultaneously expanding our platform support to include the latest and most widely adopted hyper-converged and multi-cloud environments.    Expanded cloud support – Oracle Cloud, AWS VMC, Google Cloud GCVE, AWS MultAttach, Azure Shared Disk, Azure Managed Identity, better support for VVR stretch clusters Enhanced security – Secure Boot support (Linux), Windows Volume Encryption, SecureFS ransomware protection, support for the latest updates to OS, database and virtualization platforms Improved ease of use – simplified deployment using Ansible templates and native CPI installers, VIOM improvements for ransomware protection and VVR, Windows wizards for shared-storage configuration in cloud Core functionality enhancements – Support S3 target, OpenStack Manila and Cinder support, improved DMP performance (FPIN), NVMe fencing (AFA), FSS resync improvements   See Release Notes for details

Cloud and on-premises resources monitoring and automation built with MSPs, CSPs and DevOps in mind. Get advanced insight into Microsoft Azure and AWS system performance, auto-scale resources, execute self-healing actions. Try it for free.

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Simple, secure application virtualization. Cameyo virtual desktop software delivers your Windows apps to any device. Start your free trial.

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

Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

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