Azure Compute Overview

Build, deploy, and manage your applications with powerful virtual machines and containers.

What is Azure Compute?

Azure Compute provides on-demand and scalable computing resources to run your applications and workloads. From highly available virtual machines to flexible container orchestration, Azure Compute offers a wide range of services to meet your diverse needs. Leverage the global Azure infrastructure to deploy your applications closer to your users, ensuring low latency and high performance.

Explore Compute Services

Key Compute Services

Virtual Machines

Create and manage virtual machines running Windows or Linux on Azure. Choose from a wide variety of VM sizes and configurations to match your workload requirements.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications using Kubernetes. AKS provides a managed Kubernetes experience, freeing you from cluster operational overhead.

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Run containers directly on Azure without managing virtual machines or orchestration platforms. ACI is ideal for simple containerized applications, task automation, and CI/CD scenarios.

Azure Functions

An event-driven, serverless compute platform that allows you to build and deploy applications without managing infrastructure. Pay only for the resources consumed when your code runs.

Azure App Service

A fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web apps, mobile backends, and highly available APIs. Supports various languages and frameworks.

Batch

Run large-scale, parallel, and high-performance computing (HPC) applications efficiently. Azure Batch simplifies the management of compute-intensive workloads.

Why Choose Azure Compute?

Scalability

Easily scale your compute resources up or down to meet fluctuating demand, ensuring optimal performance and cost-efficiency.

Global Reach

Deploy your applications in Azure's extensive network of global data centers, providing low latency and high availability worldwide.

Flexibility

Choose from a wide array of services and configurations, from IaaS virtual machines to managed PaaS and serverless options.

Cost-Effectiveness

Optimize your spending with pay-as-you-go pricing, reserved instances, and Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server and SQL Server.