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Achieve your business and budget goals with pricing options that help you maximize the return on your cloud investment. Learn about the advantages of choosing Azure vs. AWS.
Save on running Windows Server and SQL Server in Azure
With Azure, you can take advantage of programs that help you reduce your costs—including using your existing Windows Server and SQL Server core licenses with Software Assurance or a subscription to save on cloud services.
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Get superior performance at a lower cost for modernized workloads
Meet your mission-critical requirements up to 5 times faster while paying up to 93 percent less than with AWS RDS.*Learn how Azure SQL Managed Instance—an intelligent, fully managed cloud database service—outperformed across three different benchmarks, spanning transactional and analytics workloads.
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Maximize performance and value for migrated SQL Server workloads
See how migrating SQL Server workloads to Azure Virtual Machines can help lower total cost of ownership (TCO). SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines performs up to 57 percent faster and costs up to 54 percent less than AWS EC2.
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Use your existing Windows Server and SQL Server core licenses with Software Assurance or a subscription to save costs on Azure resources throughAzure Hybrid Benefit.
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Provide a consistent experience and apply existing knowledge across your organization’s on-premises and cloud technologies throughintegration with Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory(Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra.
More than 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies use Azure
Business and organizations—small and large, old and new—rely on Azure to provide trusted cloud services.
- Azure global infrastructure, serving over 60 regions worldwide—more than any other cloud provider
- The industry’s broadest and most experienced partner network, with more than 68,000 partners
- More than 100 compliance certifications—the broadest set of offerings in the industry—including over 50 that are specific to regions and countries
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Get security from the ground up—backed by a team of experts—and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups.
- More than 100 compliance offerings
- Uncompromising commitment to privacy
- Responsible-AI and machine-learning
- Investing in what’s good for your business and the planet
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Operate hybrid seamlessly
On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge—Azure meets you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with services designed for hybrid cloud.
- True hybrid flexibility—including for all your SQL Server instances
- Secure remote productivity
- Windows Server and SQL Server for less
- Intelligent security
- Largest IoT ecosystem in the industry, with AI at the edge
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Build on your terms
You have choices—with support for all languages and frameworks, including open source. Build how you want and deploy where you want to.
- Your language, your tool, your app
- Flexible scalability for your apps
- AI for everyone
- Open-source innovation
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Be future-ready
Take advantage of continuous innovation from Microsoft that supports your development today and your product visions for tomorrow.
- Fully managed, cloud-first solutions
- Industry-leading AI portfolio
- Data analytics at limitless scale
- Mixed reality for every developer
- Quantum-ready
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