Compute
Access cloud compute capacity, virtualization, and scale on demand—and only pay for the resources you use
Whether you’re building new applications or deploying existing ones, Azure compute provides the infrastructure you need to run your apps. Tap in to compute capacity in the cloud and scale on demand. Containerize your applications, deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs), and take advantage of flexible options for migrating VMs to Azure. With comprehensive support for hybrid environments, deploy how and where you want to. Azure compute also includes a full-fledged identity solution, so you gain managed end-point protection, and Active Directory support that helps secure access to on-premises and cloud apps. Deploy great apps and save with pay-as-you-go pricing, and the Azure Hybrid Benefit.
Find the compute product you need
| If you want to | Use this |
|---|---|
| Provision Linux and Windows virtual machines in seconds with the configurations of your choice | Virtual Machines |
| Achieve high availability by autoscaling to create thousands of VMs in minutes | Virtual Machine Scale Sets |
| Get deep discounts when you provision unused compute capacity to run your workloads | Azure Spot Virtual Machines |
| Deploy and scale containers on managed Kubernetes | Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) |
| Accelerate app development using an event-driven, serverless architecture | Azure Functions |
| Develop microservices and orchestrate containers on Windows and Linux | Azure Service Fabric |
| Quickly create cloud apps for web and mobile with fully managed platform | App Service |
| Containerize apps and easily run containers with a single command | Azure Container Instances |
| Cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management with the ability to scale to tens, hundreds, or thousands of virtual machines | Batch |
| Create highly available, scalable cloud applications and APIs that help you focus on apps instead of hardware | Cloud Services |
| Deploy your Azure virtual machines on a physical server only used by your organization | Azure Dedicated Host |
| Deploy a managed, secure collaboration engineering workspace | Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench |
Customers are doing great things with Azure compute products
Adaptive Biotechnologies transforms data stream into new immune medicine platform with Azure
"We use Azure cloud computing resources and machine learning capabilities to power our immune medicine platform, so we can rapidly map the adaptive immune system to the many different diseases it recognizes. Armed with this map, we can develop novel diagnostics for diseases, including COVID-19, and fuel the next generation of diagnostics."
Mark Adams, Chief Technical Officer, Adaptive Biotechnologies