Microsoft Azure 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Alibaba Cloud offers integrated suite of cloud products and services to businesses in America, to help to digitalize by providing scalable, secure and reliable cloud computing solutions. Try for Free.

Alibaba Cloud offers integrated suite of cloud products and services to businesses in America, to help to digitalize by providing scalable, secure and reliable cloud computing solutions. Try for Free.

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

Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM that provides intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise, powered by AI.

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

Simplify your infrastructure with cloud computing solutions from Akamai (formerly Linode). Develop, deploy, and scale faster and easier.

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

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

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

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

Secure your network and devices, manage device and application updates, and receive long-term OS support with Windows 10 IoT Core 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 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 Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise SQL data warehousing and big data analytics services.

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

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

Build, train, deploy and scale AI models and intelligent applications on a resilient and sustainable cloud ecosystem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This article provides an overview of Azure Front Door.

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

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.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud workload protection (CWP) and DevOps security solution for multicloud and hybrid environments

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a stable, proven foundation that’s versatile enough for rolling out new applications, virtualizing environments, and creating a more secure hybrid cloud.

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

OpenText™ Intelligent Capture provides OCR document recognition and capabilities to automate classification and keyword extraction.

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

Discover cloud computing and infrastructure services that brings significant price-performance and control improvements compared to on-premise.

Provides an overview of Remote Desktop Services.

Intelligent data protection, purpose-built for the Cloud applications. Afi microservices-based architecture enables unrivaled speed and scalability, while the AI engine ensures high degree of autonomy and resistance to errors

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.

Optimize your cloud cost, performance and availability while saving time with AI. Use Sedai to optimize compute, storage and data including Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EC2, Azure VMs, AWS S3, AWS EBS, Google Dataflow and more. Sedai's Autonomous Cloud Management Platform works across AWS, Azure, GCP and On-Premises and can run in three modes: Datapilot, Copilot and Autopilot.