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Convert speech to text or text to speech, translate text or audio, or add speaker recognition to your app
Manage user identities and access to protect against advanced threats across devices, data, apps, and infrastructure
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Join Azure virtual machines to a domain without domain controllers
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Easily experiment and train your deep learning and AI models in parallel at scale
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Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile
A powerful, lightweight code editor for cloud development
Quickly create and deploy mission critical web apps at scale
Easily build and consume Cloud APIs
Connect, monitor and manage billions of IoT assets
Build secure, scalable, and highly available web front ends in Azure
Distributed analytics service that makes big data easy
Add smart API capabilities to enable contextual interactions
Build secure, scalable, and highly available web front ends in Azure
Build any Azure application, on any Azure service, in less than five minutes
Build, manage, and continuously deliver cloud applicationsusing any platform or language
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Bring IoT to any device and any platform, without changing your infrastructure
Provision Windows and Linux virtual machines in seconds
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Set up labs for classrooms, trials, development and testing, and other scenarios
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Deliver high-quality video content anywhere, any time, and on any device
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Effectively scale apps according to traffic
Set up labs for classrooms, trials, development and testing, and other scenarios
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Simplify the deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes
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Durable, highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage
Use the development tools you knowincluding Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Mavenwith Azure
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Build and host the backend for any mobile app
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Gather, store, process, analyze, and visualize data of any variety, volume, or velocity
Microsoft Azure Stack is an extension of Azurebringing the agility and innovation of cloud computing to your on-premises environment and enabling the only hybrid cloud that allows you to build and deploy hybrid applications anywhere. We bring together the best of the edge and cloud to deliver Azure services anywhere in your environment.
Connect cloud and on-premises infrastructure and services to provide your customers and users the best possible experience
Unify security management and enable advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads
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Build, deploy, diagnose, and manage multi-platform, scalable apps and services
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Securely deliver content using AES, PlayReady, Widevine, and Fairplay
Digital transformation is not an end, its a means for continual improvement. We use Azure cloud analytics to gather operational and customer insights, and we use Office 365 to share that information to drive business value. The future for Hershey is very excitingwith Microsoft cloud solutions, we are in control of our digital journey, connecting everyone to work better together and share the goodness.
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Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds
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Process natural language with pre-built scripts, evaluate sentiment, and learn to recognize intent
Thousands of partners sign in to our platform every hour. The response time from the Face API is incredible, enabling us to verify our drivers without slowing them down.
Experience the simplicity of SaaS for IoT, with no cloud expertise required
Build intelligent solutions at scale usingcognitive APIs,bots,machine learning, andblockchain as a service (BaaS)capabilities that youll only find with Azure. By pairing these capabilities with powerful GPU-based compute, youll accelerate deep learning, enable high-performance computing simulations, and conduct real-time data analytics usingNVIDIA GPUs in Azure.
Simple and secure location APIs provide geospatial context to data
Accelerate partner connections and amplify success through the Microsoft partner ecosystem
Host enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud
We have multiple development and test environments in the cloud for our own use and for our reseller customers. Using Azure Cost Management to manage the cost and size of these environments has helped us all stay well on budget.
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Rely on the only cloud provider recognized in the industry as having leading solutions in infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS)in fact, according to thisForrester Total Economic Impact study, youll be more productive and increase your ROI with Azure PaaS services. Turn your ideas into solutions faster with more than 100 services, end-to-end management experiences, and app delivery with agile development practices.
We compared different cloud platforms and how they could support devices, connectivity, infrastructure services, IoT, and so on. We found that Microsoft Azure is the best cloud for this solution based on its flexibility. Azure also has a huge portfolio of very rich services that we can use, especially for IoT.
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Better protect your sensitive informationanytime, anywhere
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Optimize your cloud resources, manage departmental budgets, and allocate costs with free Azure Cost Management. Drive accountability through cost allocation and chargeback reports. Maximize resource utilization by right-sizing virtual machines and visualizing the cost-benefits of various purchasing options that Azure offers.
Globally distributed, multi-model database for any scale
Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software
View the current Azure health status and view past incidents
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Implement corporate governance and standards at scale for Azure resources
Connect across private and public cloud environments
Quickly create environments using reusable templates and artifacts
Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets
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Create cloud-powered mobile apps faster
Quickly start with the most commonInternet of Things (IoT) scenarios, such as remote monitoring and predictive maintenance, using preconfigured solutions inAzure IoT Suite. Get the most comprehensive portfolio of IoT solutions, ranging from device and edge to data and the cloud, with Azure IoT. Its open and customizable by design, and 46 percent of Azure Certified for IoT devices run on Linux, Android, or other open source technologies.
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Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity
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Automate the access and use of data across clouds without writing code
Get the SDKs and command-line tools you need
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Provision private networks, optionally connect to on-premises datacenters
Simplify and accelerate your migration to the cloud
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Easily discover, assess, right-size, and migrate your on-premises VMs to Azure
Develop and manage your containerized applications faster with integrated tools
Durable, highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage
Globally distributed, multi-model database for any scale
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Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
Ship apps faster by automating application lifecycles
Get even more value out of your investment in Azure by using one of our industry-leading SaaS services, includingOffice 365,Dynamics 365, andEnterprise Mobility + Security. Azure shares many foundational capabilities with these services, such as identity management throughAzure Active Directoryand mobile device management throughIntune.
Use Image-processing algorithms to smartly identify, caption and moderate your pictures
Receive telemetry from millions of devices
Secure, ruggedized appliance for Azure data transfer
The powerful and flexible environment for developing applications in the cloud
Simplify on-premises database migration to the cloud
Easily run containers on Azure without managing servers
Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile
Create the next generation of applications using artificial intelligence capabilities for any developer and any scenario
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Microsoft support for open source is very helpful. It means we can use whatever technologies make sense for us and have them fit in seamlessly with the rest of our stack.
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Bring limitless elastic scale to your applications withAzure Cosmos DB. Then, turn your data into a competitive advantage usingbusiness analytics solutions, such as demand forecasting and inventory optimization. Rapidly build, customize, and deploy best practices withsolution templatesand enable transformative insights on all your data with Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Simplify the deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes
Collect, search, and visualize machine data from on-premises and cloud
With the hybrid environment, we have the flexibility to place our applications and data on the appropriate cloud, based on our business, technology, and regulatory needs.
Ship apps faster by automating application lifecycles
Seamlessly integrate on-premises and cloud-based applications, data, and processes across your enterprise
Access cloud compute capacity and scale on demandand only pay for the resources you use
Use your favorite DevOps tools with Azure
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Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management
Send push notifications to any platform from any back end
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Build more success with the industrys most extensive partner network
Deliver content to virtually all devices with scale to meet business needs
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Provision cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters
Get secure, massively scalable cloud storage for your data, apps, and workloads
Detect and investigate advanced attacks on-premises and in the cloud
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Protect your applications from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
Hybrid data integration at enterprise scale, made easy
A single layer for all your playback needs
Massively scalable data lake storage repository for big data analytics workloads
Highly granular and real-time monitoring data for any Azure resource
When you compare AWS versus Azure, youll find that Azure has more comprehensivecompliancecoverage with more than 70 compliance offerings, and was the first major cloud provider to contractually commit to the requirements of theGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To protect your organization, Azure embeds security, privacy, and compliance into itsdevelopment methodology, and has been recognized as the most trusted cloud forU.S. government institutions, earning aFedRAMPHigh authorization that covers 38 Azure services. In addition,Azure IP Advantageprovides best-in-industry intellectual property protection, so you can focus on innovation, instead of worrying about baseless lawsuits.
Synchronize on-premises directories and enable single sign-on
Microsoft big data and advanced analytics capabilities are helping us filter the signal from the noise across large data sets, so we can focus on finding the real value in the data. Our vision of future digital capability will need to aggregate many sources of data and provide a platform for collaboration with customers.
Simple and secure location APIs provide geospatial context to data
Organizations all over the world recognize Azure over AWS as the most trusted cloud.
Provision Windows and Linux virtual machines in seconds
Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows or Linux
Detect, triage, and diagnose issues in your web apps and services
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Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to edge devices
Simplify the deployment, management, and operations of Kubernetes
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Simplify on-premises database migration to the cloud
Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows or Linux
Secure, ruggedized appliance for Azure data transfer
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Develop and build the way you want in Azure, with your choice oftools, applications, and frameworks, like Jenkins and Chef. As a leadingopen source contributoron GitHub, Microsoft actively supports multiple open source community projectssuch as Kubernetes, fluentd, and Helmand has a uniquepartnershipwith Red Hat to offer coordinated, multi-lingual support across multiple products.
Build, manage, and monitor all Azure products in a single, unified console
Add smart API capabilities to enable contextual interactions
Add security for your data and apps without adding hassles for users
Managed relational SQL Database as a service
Get answers to common support questions
Process events with serverless code
Better protect your sensitive informationanytime, anywhere
Uncover insights from video files with speech and vision services
Orchestrate protection and recovery of private clouds
Manage and scale up to thousands of Linux and Windows virtual machines
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Encode, store, and stream video and audio at scale
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Optimize your existing assets by taking a hybrid approach to the cloud. Azure offershybrid consistencyeverywhereinapplication development,security and management,identity management, and across the data platform. This helps reduce the risk and cost of a hybrid cloud environment by enabling a common set of skills and offering portability of applications and workloads. Plus, save up to 40 percent when migrating Windows Server virtual machines to Azure using theAzure Hybrid Benefit.
Build and deploy cross-platform and native apps for any mobile device
View and interact with Azure Storage resources
Map information and data in order to solve complex tasks
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Achieve global scale with54 announced Azure regionsmore than any other cloud provider. Our priority on geographic expansion means you can choose the datacenter and region thats right for you and your customers, with the performance and support you need, where you need it.
Securely connect MCU-powered devices from the silicon to the cloud
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Explore free online learning resources from videos to hands-on-labs
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Find and try industry focused line-of-business and productivity apps
All the traffic that we hadand it was more than we ever had beforewent through the new Azure architecture and it was remarkably trouble-free.
It felt like companies that needed to be compliant were being punished for it by having to pay more. Now, with Microsoft Clouds scalable and pay-as-you-go model, we can be competitive while offering world-class service, flexibility, and security.
Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale
Connect your blockchain to the cloud without the heavy lifting
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Ensure secure, reliable content delivery with broad global reach
Protect your applications from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
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Optimize what you spend on the cloud, while maximizing cloud potential
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Create fully customizable solutions with templates for common IoT scenarios
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