Azure Cloud Products

Pay per request, data transfer, and WAF rules

Azure Front Door - Global Load Balancer and CDN

Azure Front Door is a global load balancer and CDN with WAF, SSL termination, and intelligent routing.

Microsoft Fabric - Azure Analytics & Big Data

Microsoft Fabric - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Virtual Machines - Azure Computing

Virtual Machines: Provision Windows and Linux virtual machines in seconds

Pay-per-hour or Reserved Instances (1-3 years)

99.9% (single VM with Premium SSD), 99.95% …

web Beta

Pay per message and connection

Azure Fluid Relay - Real-Time Collaboration

Azure Fluid Relay enables real-time collaboration in web apps with low-latency data sync across users.

Pay-per-hour (Compute + Storage)

Azure Lighthouse - Multi-Tenant Management

Azure Lighthouse enables service providers and enterprises to securely manage Azure resources across multiple tenants.

Azure AI Content Understanding - Document Analysis

Azure AI Content Understanding extracts structured data from documents, images, and videos using AI models.

Pay-per-document/page

Microsoft Dev Box - Cloud Developer PC

Microsoft Dev Box provides self-managed cloud workstations for developers with preconfigured environments.

Azure Chaos Studio - Chaos Engineering

Azure Chaos Studio enables controlled fault injection to test and improve the resilience of cloud applications.

Pay-per-experiment-minute

Azure Data Box - Offline Data Transfer

Azure Data Box enables secure offline transfer of large data volumes to Azure via physical device.

Azure Health Data Services - Healthcare Data Platform

Azure Health Data Services manages FHIR, DICOM, and MedTech data with compliance and interoperability.

Pay per API call and storage

Azure Queue Storage - Message Queuing

Azure Queue Storage: Scalable message queue service for asynchronous communication between application components.

Per transaction + storage

Microsoft Entra Verified ID - Decentralized Identities

Microsoft Entra Verified ID enables verifiable credentials based on W3C standards for secure digital identity proofs.

GitHub Advanced Security - Code Security Scanning

GitHub Advanced Security provides code scanning, secret detection, and dependency review for secure development.

Per active committer per month

Azure AI Immersive Reader - Reading Assistance

Azure AI Immersive Reader improves reading comprehension through text-to-speech, syllabification, and visual reading aids for educational …

Azure Stream Analytics - Azure Analytics & Big Data

Azure Stream Analytics - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Pay per hour (cluster nodes)

Azure Operator Insights - Azure Service

Azure Operator Insights - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Azure HDInsight - Managed Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka Clusters

Azure HDInsight: Managed big data workloads with Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, and HBase in the cloud.

Azure Logic Apps - Workflow Automation

Azure Logic Apps enables visual workflow creation to integrate and automate business processes.

Per execution or Standard plan

Azure Storage Mover - Large-Scale Data Migration

Azure Storage Mover reliably and automatically migrates large data volumes from on-premises or other cloud sources to Azure Storage.

Free (only storage costs)

Azure AI Content Safety - Content Moderation

Azure AI Content Safety detects and filters harmful content in text and images for safe AI applications and community platforms.

Azure Digital Twins - IoT Modeling

Azure Digital Twins creates digital representations of physical environments for IoT, building management and industrial applications.

Azure Disk Storage - Managed Block Storage

Azure Disk Storage provides managed block storage disks for VMs with Ultra, Premium SSD, Standard SSD and Standard HDD options.

Per disk size and type per month

99.99% for Premium/Ultra

Free (storage/compute only)

Azure Open Datasets - Curated Datasets for Machine Learning and Data Analysis

Azure Open Datasets provides curated, cleaned public datasets for machine learning, data science, and analytics in Azure.

No SLA

Pay per GB stored + transactions

Azure Operator Nexus - Azure Service

Azure Operator Nexus - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Azure Files - Managed File Shares

Azure Files: Fully managed file shares in the cloud with SMB and NFS protocol support.

99.9% (LRS) to 99.99% (GRS)

analytics

Pay-per-job (Analytics Units)

Azure Data Lake Analytics - Big Data Processing

Azure Data Lake Analytics is an on-demand analytics service for Big Data jobs with U-SQL. The service is being retired.

Azure DNS - Domain Name Service

Azure DNS hosts DNS domains on Azure infrastructure with global anycast distribution and high availability.

100%

Pay-as-you-go, vCPU/GB-hours

Azure Blueprints - Governance Templates

Azure Blueprints enables defining repeatable Azure environments with policies, RBAC, and ARM templates.

Azure Spring Apps: Managed Spring Boot Platform

Azure Spring Apps provides a fully managed platform for Spring Boot and Spring Cloud microservices with enterprise features.

Azure HorizonDB - Distributed SQL Database

Azure HorizonDB is a distributed SQL database for globally distributed, low-latency applications.

Pay per vCore and storage

Azure IoT Hub - Central IoT Platform for Device Management

Azure IoT Hub: Bidirectional communication between IoT applications and millions of devices with Device Twins and Edge Computing.

Per message or fixed units

Azure Monitor - Azure DevOps & CI/CD

Azure Monitor: Full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network

Pay per GB ingested and retention

Azure Storage Discovery - Storage Assessment and Analysis

Azure Storage Discovery analyzes and assesses on-premises storage infrastructure in preparation for migration to Azure Storage.

Free (part of Azure Migrate)

Visual Studio: Professional IDE for .NET and Azure

Visual Studio is Microsoft's professional IDE for .NET, C++, Python, and Azure development with integrated debugging and DevOps.

Community (free), Pro, Enterprise

Azure ExpressRoute - Private Network Connection

Azure ExpressRoute enables dedicated, private connections between your datacenter and Azure without internet transit.

Monthly circuit + data transfer

Azure Orbital Ground Station

Azure Orbital Ground Station enables satellite communication directly from Azure Cloud without operating your own ground station.

Microsoft Playwright Testing - Cloud-based End-to-End Testing for Web Applications

Microsoft Playwright Testing provides scalable, cloud-based end-to-end tests for web apps with Playwright in Azure environments.

Per test minutes

Pay-per-cluster and data volume

Operator Distributed Services - Azure Service

Azure Operator Distributed Services - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Azure AI Video Indexer: Video AI Analysis

Azure AI Video Indexer automatically analyzes videos and extracts transcripts, faces, objects, topics, and emotions.

Azure Data Explorer - Real-time Analytics

Azure Data Explorer is a fast analytics service for real-time log and telemetry data at petabyte scale.

Azure DDoS Protection - Network Security

Azure DDoS Protection protects applications from distributed denial of service attacks in real-time.

Basic free, Standard from approx. 2,800 EUR/month

Per-use or capacity-based

Azure Stack Hub - Azure Services On-Premises

Azure Stack Hub enables running Azure services in your own data center for hybrid cloud scenarios and data residency requirements.

Azure Traffic Manager - DNS-based Traffic Load Balancing

Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based load balancer that distributes traffic globally using routing methods like Performance, Priority, …

Per DNS query and health check

Microsoft Entra ID - Identity Management

Microsoft Entra ID is the central identity provider for Single Sign-On, MFA and access control in Microsoft 365 and Azure.

Free / P1 / P2 Tiers

Per active committer per month

Azure IoT Central - SaaS IoT Platform

Azure IoT Central is a managed SaaS platform for quickly building, managing and scaling IoT applications without infrastructure overhead.

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps brings code scanning and secret detection to Azure Repos.

Static Web Apps - Azure Computing

Static Web Apps - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Microsoft Defender EASM - External Attack Surface Management

Microsoft Defender EASM discovers and monitors your organization's external attack surface from an attacker's perspective.

Microsoft Graph Data Connect - M365 Data Export

Microsoft Graph Data Connect exports Microsoft 365 data at scale to Azure for analytics and AI.

Pay per extracted object

Free (no additional cost beyond VM charges)

Update Management Center - Patch Management

Update Management Center provides centralized patch management for Windows and Linux VMs in Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud with …

Azure AI Personalizer: AI Recommendations

Azure AI Personalizer used Reinforcement Learning for personalized real-time recommendations in apps and websites.

Free and Standard Edition

Azure Arc - Hybrid Cloud Management

Azure Arc extends Azure management to servers, Kubernetes, and databases in any infrastructure: on-premises, edge, or multi-cloud.

Azure Data Catalog - Data Registry

Azure Data Catalog enables central registration and discovery of data sources across the enterprise.

Azure Notification Hubs - Scalable Push Notifications for Mobile Apps

Azure Notification Hubs enables sending push notifications to millions of devices across all major platforms (iOS, Android, Windows).

Per number of push notifications

Azure Web Application Firewall: Web App Protection

Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects web applications from OWASP attacks like SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting.

Fixed + capacity units

Foundry Models - AI Model Catalog

Foundry Models provides access to hundreds of AI models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Hugging Face, and other providers.

Azure Storage Actions - Serverless Storage Automation

Azure Storage Actions automates storage operations serverlessly with condition-based rules for blob management and lifecycle management.

Azure Cosmos DB - Azure Databases

Azure Cosmos DB: Globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database for mission-critical applications

Request Units (RU/s) or Serverless

99.999% for multi-region, 99.99% single region

License per site + SIM cards

Azure Private 5G Core - Private 5G Networks for Enterprises

Azure Private 5G Core enables deployment of private 5G mobile networks for factories, warehouses, campuses, and other enterprise locations.

App Service Plan (Free to Isolated)

Phi Open Models - Microsoft Small Language Models

Microsoft Phi Open Models are compact, efficient language models for AI applications with lower resource requirements.

Azure SQL - Managed SQL Database

Azure SQL is the fully managed SQL Server database in the cloud with automatic patching, backups, and high availability.

Pay-as-you-go / Reserved

Azure Synapse Analytics - Azure Analytics & Big Data

Azure Synapse Analytics - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Azure AI Search: Semantic Search

Azure AI Search provides full-text search with semantic ranking, vector search, and AI enrichment for intelligent search applications.

Azure App Service: Web Apps and APIs

Azure App Service is a PaaS platform for web apps, REST APIs, and mobile backends with automatic scaling and CI/CD.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Cloud Security

Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides unified security management and threat protection for cloud workloads.

Free (Basic), Pay-per-resource (Enhanced)

API Management - Azure Integration

API Management: Enterprise API gateway for secure publishing, management, and monitoring of APIs in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Consumption, Developer, Basic, Standard, Premium

99.95% (Standard/Premium), 99.99% (Premium …

ai-machine-learning

Free up to 5 users, then per user

Data Science Virtual Machines - ML Development Environment

Azure Data Science VMs are preconfigured VMs with ML tools, frameworks, and GPU support for data scientists.

Pay-per-hour (VM costs)

Azure Boards - Agile Project Management

Azure Boards is an agile project management tool for Scrum, Kanban and custom workflows with backlogs and sprints.

Azure Virtual Network: Private Cloud Networking

Azure Virtual Network (VNet) enables isolated, private networks in Azure with subnets, peering, and hybrid connectivity.

Free (peering/gateway extra)

Azure Table Storage - NoSQL Key-Value Store

Azure Table Storage is a cost-effective NoSQL data store for structured, non-relational data with automatic scaling and global availability.

Pay-per-GB stored and transactions

99.9% (LRS/ZRS), 99.99% read (RA-GRS)

Hub hours + data transfer

Azure Programmable Connectivity - Telco API Gateway

Azure Programmable Connectivity: Unified API access to mobile network capabilities from various carriers via standardized CAMARA APIs.

Azure Virtual WAN: Global Network Hub

Azure Virtual WAN simplifies global network architectures with automated routing, VPN, and ExpressRoute in one hub.

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager - Multi-Cluster Orchestration

Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager enables centralized management of multiple AKS clusters with unified deployments and policies.

Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models - Azure Service

Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models: Access powerful AI models from OpenAI including GPT-4, GPT-3.5, DALL-E, and more

Pay per 1K tokens (input/output priced separately)

Azure SQL Database - Azure Databases

Azure SQL Database: Intelligent, scalable, managed SQL database in the cloud

DTU-based, vCore-based, or Serverless

99.99% with zone redundancy, 99.995% for Business …

developer-tools

Free for small teams, pay-per-user

Azure DevOps - CI/CD Platform

Azure DevOps provides repositories, pipelines, boards, and artifacts for the entire software development lifecycle.

Per GB data ingested + retention

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) - Infrastructure-as-Code

Azure Resource Manager: Deployment and management service for Azure resources with Infrastructure-as-Code via ARM Templates and Bicep.

Free (no direct costs)

Microsoft Sentinel - Cloud-Native SIEM and SOAR

Microsoft Sentinel: Cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with AI-powered threat detection and security …

99.9% (Log Analytics dependency)

ai-machine-learning

Per Unit (1,000 connections) per hour

Azure AI Speech: Speech to Text and Back

Azure AI Speech provides Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and speech translation for accessible and voice-enabled applications.

Azure Web PubSub: Real-time Messaging for Web Apps

Azure Web PubSub enables scalable real-time communication over WebSockets for millions of concurrent connections.

Azure Cloud HSM - Hardware Security Module

Azure Cloud HSM provides FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified hardware security modules for cryptographic keys.

Azure SignalR Service - Real-time Websockets

Azure SignalR Service is a fully managed service for real-time websocket connections with automatic scaling to millions of connections.

Microsoft Purview - Data Governance and Compliance Platform

Microsoft Purview provides comprehensive data governance, compliance, risk management, and data protection functions for enterprise data in …

By capacity and features

Per endpoint + data processing

Azure Policy - Governance and Compliance

Azure Policy enforces organizational standards and assesses compliance of Azure resources in real-time.

Azure Private Link - Private Access to Azure Services via VNet

Azure Private Link enables secure, private access to Azure PaaS services, Microsoft partner services, and own services via a Private …

Azure Virtual Desktop - Cloud-based Desktop Virtualization

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) delivers Windows 10/11 Multi-Session desktops and RemoteApp streaming with FSLogix profiles, optimized for …

Pay for VMs, storage, networking (AVD service free …

99.9% (VM-dependent)

Per Security Compute Unit (SCU)

Microsoft Foundry - Enterprise AI Platform

Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry): Develop, evaluate, and deploy AI applications with GPT-4, Llama, Mistral. Prompt Flow, RAG …

Microsoft Security Copilot - AI-Powered Security Analysis

Microsoft Security Copilot: AI assistant for security operations based on GPT-4 for threat analysis, incident response, and security …

Azure AI Vision: Image Analysis and OCR

Azure AI Vision analyzes images and videos with AI: object detection, OCR, face recognition, and custom models.

Free runtime, pay for connected cloud services

Azure IoT Edge - Edge Computing for IoT

Azure IoT Edge runs cloud workloads on IoT devices for local processing and offline operation.

Power BI Embedded - Embedding Power BI Analytics in Applications

Power BI Embedded enables integration of interactive Power BI reports and dashboards into own applications and SaaS solutions.

Azure Firewall Manager - Centralized Firewall Management

Azure Firewall Manager: Centralized management of firewall policies for Azure Firewall and Secured Virtual Hubs.

Free (Azure Firewall costs apply)

Depends on Azure Firewall SLA

Azure Automation - Runbook Automation

Azure Automation automates recurring tasks using PowerShell and Python runbooks for cloud and hybrid environments.

Azure Local - Hybrid Cloud On-Premises

Azure Local brings Azure services to your own data centers for hybrid cloud scenarios with local data sovereignty.

Usage-based like Azure

Depends on hardware

Tier-based (Developer, Basic, Standard)

Azure Health Bot - AI-Powered Healthcare Assistants

Azure Health Bot: Build AI-powered chatbots for medical scenarios with FHIR integration and medical domain knowledge.

Azure Analysis Services: BI Data Modeling

Azure Analysis Services provides enterprise BI data modeling for fast, interactive analytics with Power BI and Excel.

Azure Bastion - Secure VM Access

Azure Bastion enables secure RDP and SSH access to VMs via the browser without public IP addresses.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Azure Computing

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes

Pay for agent nodes only (control plane free)

99.95% with Availability Zones

developer-tools

Pay for compute used during builds

Azure Deployment Environments - Dev Infrastructure

Azure Deployment Environments enables self-service provisioning of development environments from templates.

Pay for Azure resources

Azure VM Image Builder - Automated Image Creation

Azure VM Image Builder automates creation and maintenance of custom virtual machine images.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift - Azure Containers

Azure Red Hat OpenShift - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Azure Confidential Ledger - Tamper-Proof Storage

Azure Confidential Ledger stores data tamper-proof in a decentralized ledger with hardware-level security.

Azure Energy Data Services - Energy Data Platform

Azure Energy Data Services is an OSDU-compliant data platform for managing and analyzing energy data in the oil, gas and energy industry.

Per instance per hour

Virtual Machine Scale Sets - Azure Computing

Virtual Machine Scale Sets - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Pay-per-vCPU-second and memory-GB-second

Planetary Computer Pro - Geospatial Data Platform

Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro: Cloud-based platform for environmental and geospatial data analysis with petabytes of satellite and …

Azure NetApp Files - Azure Storage

Azure NetApp Files - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Azure Container Instances - Serverless Containers

Azure Container Instances runs Docker containers without server management. Ideal for batch jobs and isolated workloads.

Azure Quantum - Quantum Computing Cloud Platform

Azure Quantum: Fully managed quantum computing platform with access to various quantum hardware providers and optimization solutions.

Pay-per-use (QHours)

Preview SLA

Pay per Throughput Unit or Dedicated Capacity …

Azure Operator Call Protection - Azure Service

Azure Operator Call Protection - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Azure Event Hubs - Event Streaming

Azure Event Hubs is a managed event streaming platform for big data ingestion with Apache Kafka compatibility.

99.95% for Standard/Premium, 99.99% for Dedicated

networking Beta

Free up to 5 users, then per user

Azure Operator Service Manager - Telecom Network Functions

Azure Operator Service Manager manages and orchestrates network functions for telecommunications providers on Azure infrastructure.

Azure Repos - Git Version Control

Azure Repos: Cloud-based Git repositories and Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) as part of Azure DevOps.

Azure Storage Accounts: Unified Cloud Storage

Azure Storage Accounts provide scalable cloud storage for Blobs, Files, Queues, and Tables with global replication.

Pay-per-GB, transactions

Azure VPN Gateway: Secure Hybrid Connectivity

Azure VPN Gateway enables encrypted Site-to-Site and Point-to-Site VPN connections between Azure and on-premises.

Gateway hours + data transfer

Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Managed PostgreSQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL: Fully managed PostgreSQL database service with high availability, automatic backups, and scaling.

vCore-based or Burstable

99.99% (Zone-redundant)

networking

Azure CDN - Content Delivery Network

Azure CDN accelerates web content delivery worldwide through global edge servers and intelligent caching.

Pay-per-GB data transfer

Azure App Testing: Mobile App Tests

Azure App Testing enables automated UI testing of mobile apps on real devices in the cloud for iOS and Android.

Azure VMware Solution - VMware in Azure

Azure VMware Solution enables running VMware workloads natively in Azure with vSphere, vSAN, and NSX.

Per-node (hourly)

management-and-governance

Azure Copilot - AI Assistant for Azure Management

Azure Copilot is an AI assistant in Azure Portal for natural language queries and automation.

Included in Azure Portal

Azure Cloud Services - PaaS Compute

Azure Cloud Services is a classic PaaS platform for scalable web and worker roles without infrastructure management.

Pay-per-instance-hour

99.95%

Pay per GB stored and transactions

Azure SRE Agent: AI-Powered Incident Analysis (Preview)

Azure SRE Agent is an AI agent that assists Site Reliability Engineers with incident analysis and troubleshooting. Preview.

Azure Blob Storage - Object Storage

Azure Blob Storage: Massively scalable object storage for unstructured data

99.9% to 99.99% depending on redundancy

virtual-desktop-infrastructure Beta

Pay-per-VM (Spot + On-Demand mix)

Azure Lab Services - Managed Virtual Labs

Azure Lab Services enables creating preconfigured virtual machines for training, workshops, and development environments.

Azure AI Language: Text Analytics and NLP

Azure AI Language provides NLP capabilities like sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and text classification for intelligent …

Microsoft Defender for IoT - IoT Security

Microsoft Defender for IoT protects IoT and OT devices with agentless discovery and threat analysis.

Azure Compute Fleet - VM Orchestration

Azure Compute Fleet enables deployment and management of large VM fleets with Spot and On-Demand instances.

Azure Archive Storage - Long-term Storage

Azure Archive Storage provides cost-effective cloud storage for rarely accessed data with retention periods spanning years or decades.

Monthly subscription per device

Azure Stack Edge - Edge Computing with AI

Azure Stack Edge provides edge computing hardware with integrated AI acceleration for local data processing and machine learning.

Microsoft Entra Domain Services - Managed Active Directory

Microsoft Entra Domain Services provides managed Active Directory features like Domain Join, LDAP and Kerberos in the cloud.

Pro geschützte Instanz/Monat

Azure Site Recovery - Disaster Recovery as a Service

Azure Site Recovery bietet automatisierte Disaster Recovery für VMs mit Replikation, orchestriertem Failover und Failback.

Azure AI Custom Vision - Image Classification

Azure AI Custom Vision enables training custom image classification and object detection models without ML expertise.

Azure Network Function Manager - Management of Network Functions in Azure

Azure Network Function Manager enables centralized management and deployment of virtualized network functions (VNFs) in Azure environments.

Based on managed resources

Depends on configuration

databases Beta

Azure Database for MySQL - Azure Databases

Azure Database for MySQL - Microsoft Azure cloud service

management-and-governance

Free (Premium: Pay-per-hour)

Microsoft Cost Management - Cloud Cost Optimization

Microsoft Cost Management analyzes and optimizes cloud spending with budgets, alerts, and detailed cost reports.

Free for Azure resources

Azure Database Migration Service - Database Migration

Azure Database Migration Service migrates databases to Azure with minimal downtime.

Azure AI Bot Service - Chatbot Platform

Azure AI Bot Service enables development of intelligent chatbots for customer service, internal assistants, and multi-channel communication.

Azure Artifacts - Package Management

Azure Artifacts is a package management service for NuGet, npm, Maven, and Python packages in Azure DevOps.

Azure Route Server - BGP Routing Hub

Azure Route Server: Managed BGP routing service for dynamic route exchange between Network Virtual Appliances and Azure VNets.

Per hour + data processing

Pay-per-host (hourly or reserved)

Windows for IoT - Operating System for IoT Devices

Windows for IoT is a specialized Windows operating system for IoT devices, kiosks, and industrial applications.

Azure Container Storage - Kubernetes Storage

Azure Container Storage provides scalable block storage for Kubernetes workloads with NVMe performance.

Pay-per-GiB provisioned

Azure Firewall - Cloud Firewall

Azure Firewall is a managed network firewall with stateful inspection, threat intelligence, and centralized rule management.

Azure Dedicated Host - Dedicated Servers

Azure Dedicated Host provides physically isolated servers for VMs with full control over hardware placement.

Azure DevTest Labs: Development Environments

Azure DevTest Labs enables rapid provisioning of dev/test VMs with automatic cost controls and self-service for developers.

VM costs only, no lab surcharge

Azure Container Apps - Serverless Containers

Azure Container Apps: Serverless container platform for microservices and event-driven workloads with automatic scaling and KEDA …

Pay-per-vCPU/Memory-second + requests

Azure SDKs - Developer Libraries

Azure SDKs: Official client libraries for Azure services in Python, JavaScript, .NET, Java, Go, and other languages.

Free (Open Source)

N/A (Client Libraries)

analytics Beta

Per-user or capacity-based

Microsoft Power BI - Business Intelligence and Data Visualization

Microsoft Power BI is a comprehensive Business Intelligence platform for data analysis, visualization, and self-service BI for enterprises.

Azure AI Translator: Machine Translation

Azure AI Translator translates texts and documents in over 130 languages with neural machine translation in real-time.

Service Bus - Azure Integration

Service Bus - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Free (underlying services billed)

Azure Automanage - Automated VM Management

Azure Automanage automates best practices for managing Windows and Linux VMs with backup, updates and security configurations.

Azure Batch - HPC Job Scheduler

Azure Batch enables running batch computing jobs on a managed pool of virtual machines.

Windows Server on Azure: Enterprise Server in the Cloud

Windows Server on Azure provides virtual Windows servers in the cloud with Azure Hybrid Benefit and seamless Active Directory integration.

VM cost + license or BYOL

99.99% (Availability Zones)

mobile

Pay-per-use (minutes, messages)

Azure Communication Services - Communication APIs

Azure Communication Services provides APIs for voice, video, chat, and SMS integration into custom applications.

Azure Container Registry - Private Docker Registry

Azure Container Registry is a managed Docker registry for container images with geo-replication and security scanning.

Tier-based (Basic, Standard, Premium)

Azure DevOps Integrations - Tool Connectivity

Azure DevOps Integrations enable connection with external tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, and Slack.

Mostly free (depends on extension)

Azure Load Balancer - Network Load Balancing

Azure Load Balancer distributes incoming traffic across multiple VMs for high availability and scalability.

Per rules and processed traffic

Azure SQL Managed Instance: Fully Managed SQL Server

Azure SQL Managed Instance provides near 100% SQL Server compatibility as a fully managed PaaS service for cloud migrations.

vCore-based, Reserved Capacity

Nutanix Cloud Clusters - Azure Computing

Nutanix Cloud Clusters - Microsoft Azure cloud service

Azure Functions - Serverless Computing on Azure

Azure Functions: Event-driven serverless compute platform for scalable applications and AI workloads

Pay-per-execution (Consumption) or …

99.95% for Premium and Dedicated plans

devops Beta

Up to 90% cheaper than Pay-as-you-go

GitHub Enterprise - Source Control and Collaboration

GitHub Enterprise provides secure, scalable Git hosting with advanced collaboration and compliance features.

Azure Managed Grafana - Managed Grafana Dashboards

Azure Managed Grafana provides fully managed Grafana dashboards with native Azure integration for monitoring and observability.

Azure Spot VMs - Low-Cost Compute Capacity

Azure Spot Virtual Machines use unused Azure capacity at up to 90% reduced prices for fault-tolerant workloads.

No SLA (can be interrupted at any time)

ai-machine-learning

Foundry Observability - AI Monitoring & Oversight

Foundry Observability provides comprehensive monitoring, logging, and performance analysis for AI applications in production.

Azure AI Document Intelligence - Document Processing

Azure AI Document Intelligence automatically extracts text, tables, and structures from documents like invoices, contracts, and forms.

Pay-per-pipeline-run and data volume

Azure Migrate - Cloud Migration

Azure Migrate is a central hub for discovery, assessment, and migration of on-premises workloads to Azure.

Azure Data Factory - Cloud ETL and Data Integration

Azure Data Factory: Fully managed ETL service for cloud-based data integration and orchestration

99.9% for Data Factory V2

databases

Azure DocumentDB - Managed Document Database

Azure DocumentDB provides a fully managed MongoDB-compatible document database with global distribution.

Pay-as-you-go (RU/s)

99.999%

Azure Backup - Cloud Data Protection

Azure Backup provides centralized backup for Azure VMs, databases, files, and on-premises servers with integrated ransomware protection.

Azure Maps - Geospatial Platform

Azure Maps provides mapping, routing, geocoding, and geofencing APIs for location-based applications and IoT solutions.

Azure Application Gateway - Load Balancer

Azure Application Gateway is a Layer-7 load balancer for web applications with WAF, SSL termination and URL-based routing.

Azure Elastic SAN - Block Storage

Azure Elastic SAN provides scalable block storage with iSCSI protocol for enterprise workloads in the cloud.

Azure IoT Operations - Industrial IoT Platform

Azure IoT Operations is an edge-native solution for industrial IoT scenarios with data processing directly at the machine.

Per node per month

Per hour based on tier and size

Azure Machine Learning - ML Platform

Azure Machine Learning provides an end-to-end platform for training, deploying, and managing machine learning models.

Per compute resources

Azure Managed Redis - Managed Redis Cache

Azure Managed Redis provides fully managed in-memory caching for session storage, caching, and real-time analytics.

Azure Artifact Signing - Code Signing

Azure Artifact Signing enables secure signing of container images and software artifacts in the cloud.

GitHub Copilot - AI Pair Programming

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that suggests code completions and entire functions in your IDE.

Azure Linux Virtual Machines - Linux VMs in the Cloud

Azure Linux Virtual Machines offers scalable Linux servers with Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE, and other distributions in the Azure Cloud.

Pay-as-you-go or Reserved Instances

Azure Test Plans - Test Management for DevOps Teams

Azure Test Plans provides comprehensive test management capabilities with manual and exploratory testing, seamless Azure DevOps integration, …

Per user/month (Basic Tester License)

99.9% for Azure DevOps Services

Per publisher pricing model

Azure Managed Applications - ISV Solutions

Azure Managed Applications enables ISVs to deploy managed solutions in Azure Marketplace with controlled access.

Azure Managed Lustre - High-Performance File System

Azure Managed Lustre provides a managed parallel file system for HPC and AI workloads with high throughput.

Per capacity and throughput

Azure Storage Explorer: Desktop Tool for Storage Management

Azure Storage Explorer is a free desktop application for managing Azure Storage Accounts, Blobs, Files, and Tables.

SQL Server on Azure VMs: Full SQL Server Control

SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines provides full SQL Server control in the cloud with IaaS flexibility and Azure integration.

VM + SQL license or BYOL

99.99% (Availability Zones)

security Beta

Included in Microsoft 365 E3/E5

Azure Information Protection - Data Classification and Protection

Azure Information Protection classifies and protects documents and emails based on sensitivity labels.

Azure App Configuration: Feature Flags

Azure App Configuration provides centralized configuration management and feature flags for cloud applications and microservices.

Free + Standard Tier

management-and-governance

Free (storage costs for home directory)

Azure Cloud Shell - Browser Terminal

Azure Cloud Shell provides a browser-based command line with pre-installed Azure CLI, PowerShell, and developer tools.

Azure Databricks - Unified Analytics Platform

Azure Databricks: Apache Spark-based analytics platform for data engineering, ML, and AI

Pay-per-DBU (Databricks Unit) + Azure VM costs

99.95% for Premium tier

networking Beta

By number of managed VNets

Azure Virtual Network Manager - Centralized Management of Azure Networks

Azure Virtual Network Manager enables centralized management, configuration, and securing of virtual networks across subscriptions and …

Pay-per-GB and transactions

Azure Advisor - Azure Management

Azure Advisor: Personalized best practice recommendations for Azure resources to optimize costs, security, performance, and reliability.

Azure Data Lake Storage - Scalable Data Storage

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 combines hierarchical namespace with Blob Storage for Big Data analytics.

Azure Data Share - Data Sharing

Azure Data Share enables secure sharing of data with external partners without data copies.

Microsoft Entra External ID - Customer Identity

Microsoft Entra External ID enables secure authentication for external users, customers and partners in your applications.

Azure Attestation - Trusted Execution

Azure Attestation verifies the trustworthiness of Trusted Execution Environments like Intel SGX and AMD SEV.

Azure NAT Gateway - Managed Outbound Service for Azure Virtual Networks

Azure NAT Gateway provides managed outbound internet connectivity for virtual networks with static IPs, high availability, and easy scaling.

Hourly + data processing

Azure Event Grid - Event Routing

Azure Event Grid is a serverless event broker for reactive applications with push-based event delivery.

Azure Network Watcher - Network Monitoring and Diagnostics for Azure

Azure Network Watcher provides tools for monitoring, diagnosing, and analyzing network connections and traffic in Azure Virtual Networks.

Usage-based per test/flow

Azure AI Metrics Advisor: AI Anomaly Detection

Azure AI Metrics Advisor automatically detects anomalies in time series and identifies root causes for proactive monitoring.

Foundry Agent Service - Autonomous AI Agents

Foundry Agent Service enables development of autonomous AI agents that solve complex tasks through tool usage and multi-step reasoning.

Free minutes + pay-per-use

Azure Sphere - IoT Security Platform

Azure Sphere is an end-to-end IoT security solution with hardened microcontroller, Linux OS, and cloud security service.

Hardware + free service

Azure Pipelines

Azure Pipelines is a CI/CD service for automated build, test, and deployment of applications.

Free (compute costs during migration)

Azure Resource Mover - Resource Migration

Azure Resource Mover: Service for moving Azure resources between regions, subscriptions, and resource groups.

None (migration tool)

developer-tools Beta

Visual Studio Code: Lightweight Code Editor

Visual Studio Code is a free, extensible code editor for all platforms with Azure and GitHub integration.

Free, Open Source

Desktop application

Pay per operation (Standard or Premium HSM)

ARM Templates - Infrastructure as Code

Azure Resource Manager Templates enable declarative Infrastructure as Code for consistent and repeatable Azure deployments.

Azure AI Anomaly Detector - Anomaly Detection

Azure AI Anomaly Detector automatically detects anomalies in time series data for predictive maintenance, fraud detection, and business …

Azure Key Vault - Secrets and Key Management

Azure Key Vault securely stores and manages secrets, keys, and certificates for cloud applications.

Foundry Tools - AI Development Tools

Foundry Tools provides integrated tools for prompt engineering, RAG development, and AI application deployment.

Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra - Managed NoSQL

Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra provides managed Cassandra clusters for scalable NoSQL workloads.

Per node and storage