Managed Disks Alternatives (September 2025)

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

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

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.

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

Persistent Disk is Google’s local durable storage service, fully integrated with Google Cloud products, Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

This article provides an overview of Azure Front Door.

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

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

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

Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security, and compliance.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Store application data on durable, high-performance block volumes where data stored is persistent meaning volumes can be connected, detached and moved as needed, even beyond the lifespan of the current compute instance.

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

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

IBM Cloud Object Storage is a scalable and resilient managed data service on IBM Cloud, offering an alternative to block and file storage.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

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

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

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

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.

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

IBM Cloud Block Storage is a high-performance cloud data storage service on IBM Cloud.

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) provides industry-leading scalability.Fully managed object storage service to store and access any amount of data from anywhere.

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

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

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

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

Unified storage solutions from NetApp deliver reliable data storage strategies that brings file and block storage into a single, scalable data management platform. Truly unified for any data type, workload, or application.

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

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

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

Provides an overview of Remote Desktop 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.

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

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

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.

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

Object Storage Service (OBS) provides secure, stable, and virtually infinite scalable object storage. You can store massive amounts of data on OBS.

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.

Cloud Storage lets you store data with multiple redundancy options, virtually anywhere.

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.

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

Object Storage reliably and securely stores any type of data in its native format. It is ideal for building modern applications that require scale and flexibility, and is often used for data consolidation, analytic data lakes, backup, and archive.

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

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

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

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

Fully managed Windows file system for business applications.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Active@ Disk Image can do a backup and clone the full hard drive.

IBM Cloud File Storage is flash-backed, durable and fast NFS-based cloud data storage on IBM Cloud.

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

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

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

Backblaze B2 provides unlimited data storage in the cloud at 1/5th the cost of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

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.

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

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.

Overview of Application Virtualization

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

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

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