Microsoft Azure
Cloud; closest region in South Africa
Last verified: 1 October 2026
Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform, offering infrastructure, platform and software as a service. The site highlights having more regions than any other cloud provider.
Services
- Virtual Machines, AKS, Functions, Container Apps
- Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Managed Redis
- Microsoft Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI
- Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks
- Azure Arc and Azure Local (hybrid)
Access requirements
An Azure account is required; free account, free services and 30-day trials are mentioned.
Sandbox: Yes
Sources
- Microsoft Azure (new tab), verified on 1 October 2026Official site consulted