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Unify on-premises, hybrid, and cross-cloud infrastructure

Add video, voice, SMS, chat, and other communication APIs to apps

Get unmatched time to insights with a limitless analytics service

Maximize the business value of data with unified data governance

Add cognitive capabilities to apps with APIs

Build and manage edge AI solutions

Build, train, and deploy machine learning

Detect content with vision and speech functions

Add cognitive capabilities to apps with APIs

Create bots and connect them across channels

Design AI with Apache Spark TM -based analytics

Build for mixed reality using AI sensors

Deploy VMs in seconds

Create open-source, enterprise-grade apps

Get industry-leading performance for SQL

Deploy scalable, protected virtualized infrastructure

Trigger apps with serverless computing

Expand apps to additional locations

Build, deploy, and scale web apps on a fully managed platform

Trigger apps with serverless computing

Build and scale apps with managed Kubernetes

Run containers without managing servers

Stay compliant with managed app updates

Bring modern microservice patterns to Spring Boot apps

Unify on-premises, hybrid, and cross-cloud infrastructure

Build apps across on-premises, cloud, and the edge

Stop threats with intelligent security analytics

Extend threat protection to any infrastructure

Create secure, private clouds

Enable single sign-on and multifactor identification

Build IoT solutions on a hosted platform

Deploy cloud intelligence on local edge devices

Authenticate communication across devices, edge, and cloud

Create models of physical environments

Secure your IoT hardware and software

Visualize IoT data in real time

Find out how these customers are innovating with Azure

Make-A-Wish® transitioned to remote work within a week with Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams and continues to make wishes come true.

American Cancer Society has kept resources flowing to patients and researchers during the global pandemic by transitioning their infrastructure to Azure.

Walgreens Boots Alliance uses Microsoft Healthcare Bot service to help customers quickly find answers to healthcare questions—including about COVID-19.

Bosch Building Technologies used Azure to expand and globally deploy a platform that analyzes energy consumption and helps pursue ongoing energy efficiency.

The BBC uses Azure AI and Azure Bot Service to deliver news with Beeb, a voice assistant that understands the broad range of UK accents and dialects.

Make-A-Wish® transitioned to remote work within a week with Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams and continues to make wishes come true.

American Cancer Society has kept resources flowing to patients and researchers during the global pandemic by transitioning their infrastructure to Azure.

Walgreens Boots Alliance uses Microsoft Healthcare Bot service to help customers quickly find answers to healthcare questions—including about COVID-19.

Bosch Building Technologies used Azure to expand and globally deploy a platform that analyzes energy consumption and helps pursue ongoing energy efficiency.

The BBC uses Azure AI and Azure Bot Service to deliver news with Beeb, a voice assistant that understands the broad range of UK accents and dialects.

Azure plan

An Azure plan gives you access to Azure services at standard pay-as-you-go rates under the Microsoft Customer Agreement. If the rates change, we’ll notify you at least 30 days in advance. We’ll also notify you in advance if we add any new services to the Azure platform and inform you of any associated fees for using them. You’ll be charged only if you use the new services. You’re responsible for any taxes that might result from receiving services at no charge.

Limits, quotas, and constraints

See the Azure limits, quotas, and constraints documentation. If you need to exceed these limits, contact customer service so that we can adjust your limits appropriately.

Cancellation policy

You may cancel this plan at any time. Payment is required for any outstanding fees that your account incurs.

Service-level agreements

Each Azure service has a set of robust service-level agreements (SLAs). See the SLAs for individual Azure services. SLAs are not provided for services during preview or that are offered free of charge.

Resource commitment

All increases in service usage are subject to the availability of the service resources. Examples of such increases include adding to the number of running compute instances or increasing the amount of storage in use.

If an Azure free account is not incurring charges or is inactive for more than 90 days, we reserve the right to remove any compute resources, including hosted service(s), virtual machines, and websites. We will provide notice a month before removing any compute resources. You can avoid becoming inactive by doing either of the following every 90 days:

• Sign in to the Azure portal.
• Access your resources via Azure APIs.

Microsoft reserves the right to modify or discontinue any of the free services or the free account offer at any time with or without notice.

Additional terms by benefit type

Free account

Upgrades and spending limits

With the Azure free account, eligible customers receive a $200 credit, which can be used within the first 30 days on most Azure services. Unused credit cannot be carried over to subsequent months and cannot be transferred to other Azure subscriptions.

Within 30 days of sign-up or upon exhaustion of the credit (whichever occurs first), you must upgrade to pay-as-you-go pricing by removing the spending limit to continue using the Azure free account and select free services for the term.

Exclusions

Azure credit may not be used to purchase Azure support plans, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio subscriptions, Visual Studio App Center services, Azure ExpressRoute, third-party branded products, products sold through Azure Marketplace, or products otherwise licensed separately from Azure (for example, Azure Active Directory Premium).

You will not facilitate, engage in, or participate in any use of Azure services, for crypto-currency mining, denial of service attacks, spamming, or illegal activity, and/or any use that could cause harm to Microsoft or others, and will enforce strong internal controls to prevent the same.

Microsoft may from time to time contact you regarding your use of your Azure services, and you will upon such request provide reasonable documentation regarding your use. If Microsoft believes for any reason that such Azure services are being used for any prohibited purpose, Microsoft may, in its sole discretion, suspend or terminate your access to the Azure services.

Communication policy

Throughout the 12-month duration of your Azure free account, you may receive periodic email communications with best practices, training, tips and tricks, and valuable offers related to Azure. You can stop receiving communications by opting out via the unsubscribe link in the emails. Read the Privacy Statement.

Payment options

A credit card or debit card is required for authentication when you sign up, unless you were approved for invoicing. We do not accept prepaid or virtual credit cards. Your card will not be charged initially except for a temporary authorization hold. Any taxes that may result from receiving services at no charge are the sole responsibility of the recipient. Read about Azure pricing.

Pay-as-you-go pricing

Upgrading from an Azure free account

If you upgraded from an Azure free account offer, you will continue to have access to select free services for the remainder of the 12-month duration of that offer (beginning on the date you signed up). Credit provided as part of the Azure free account offer will be valid until 30 days from the date you signed up.

After you upgrade, your account will be billed at standard pay-as-you-go rates for your usage above the free amounts. Microsoft reserves the right to change or discontinue any of the select free services or Azure free account offer at any time with or without notice.

Payment options

Only credit cards are accepted, unless you were approved for invoicing. We do not accept prepaid or virtual credit cards. Read about Azure pricing.

Azure AI

Make artificial intelligence (AI) real for your business today.

Recognized by top industry analysts

«Using Azure’s AI scanning capabilities, the system was able to return less than 1,300 images that were relevant in terms of potential human incursion, preventing the team from being overwhelmed by an influx of data.»

Doug Gillings, Program Manager at Peace Parks Foundation

«We want our customers to love us. And by using Azure AI to make engagement with our services more human, we will certainly increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.»

Irene Gomez, Aura Global Director, Telefonica

«Thanks to Azure AI, for the first time, we have been able to predict a defect before it’s occurred. The fact that you can predict that and know why you predicted it is really impactful.»

Clint Belinsky, Vice President of Global Quality, Jabil

«As we get more insights from our data, I see a future where, using Azure AI, we can not only further automate our business but use the system to drive personalized, value-based engagement with our fans across the world.»

Garth Case, Vice-President for IT, NBA

Why Azure for AI?

Get proven, secure, and responsible AI capabilities on your terms with Azure AI. Build mission-critical solutions that can analyze images, comprehend speech, make predictions using data, and imitate other intelligent human behaviors—all using Azure AI.

Only Azure AI gives you the combined ability to:

1. Develop AI solutions on your terms
2. Build AI into mission-critical applications
3. Put responsible AI into action

Focus on empowering all developers

App Developers

Add AI capabilities to your apps without machine learning expertise

Data Scientists

Collaborate and build models faster with tools & frameworks of your choice

ML Engineers

Deliver models faster and more reliably using your existing DevOps practices

Hardened for most demanding workloads

Proven

Access the same AI capabilities that power Microsoft

Powerful

Scale without limits on Azure’s unmatched global infrastructure

Secure

Rely on the most trusted cloud with more compliance certifications than any other

Uncompromising commitment to responsible AI

Understand

Interpret behavior and mitigate bias in your AI systems

Privacy

Preserve privacy and ensure confidentiality

Control

Enforce accountability and ensure compliance

Make AI real for your business today across the cloud and the edge

Quickly and easily build, train, deploy and manage your models.

Uncover latent insights from all your content.

Deliver breakthrough experiences in your apps.

Machine learning

Only Azure empowers you with the most advanced machine learning capabilities. Quickly and easily build, train, and deploy your machine learning models using Azure Machine Learning, Azure Databricks and ONNX Runtime. Optimize and accelerate ML inferencing and training. Develop models faster using automated machine learning. Easily deploy at scale with Kubernetes on Azure. Manage your ML models across the cloud and the edge.

A Python-based machine learning service with automated machine learning and edge deployment capabilities.

An open source model format and runtime designed to accelerate machine learning across a wide range of frameworks, operating systems, and hardware platforms.