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- Owner
- Microsoft
- Founded
- Type
- Second largest cloud provider
- Website
- azure.microsoft.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Microsoft's cloud — ~25 % market share. Dominates in Office 365 shops thanks to native integration with Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), Teams, SharePoint.
Originally "Windows Azure" (2010), renamed "Microsoft Azure" in 2014. Satya Nadella's biggest bet as CEO. Massive partnership with OpenAI since 2019 — Azure OpenAI Service hosts GPT-4 for enterprise. AKS (managed Kubernetes), Cosmos DB, Service Bus are flagship services. Competitors: AWS, GCP. Loses ground to AWS in the developer market, wins in enterprise / regulated industries.