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Secure, develop, and operate infrastructure, apps, and Azure services anywhere
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Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud at lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
Provision unused compute capacity at deep discounts to run interruptible workloads
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Streamline development with secure, ready-to-code workstations in the cloud
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Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers
Execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience
Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is an on-premises Kubernetes implementation of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that automates running containerized applications at scale.
Support rapid growth and innovate faster with secure, enterprise-grade, and fully managed database services
Migrate, modernize, and innovate on the modern SQL family of cloud databases
Build apps that scale with managed and intelligent SQL database in the cloud
Modernize SQL Server applications with a managed, always-up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud
Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud at lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
Deploy applications to the cloud with enterprise-ready, fully managed community MariaDB
Deliver innovation faster with simple, reliable tools for continuous delivery
Quickly spin up app infrastructure environments with project-based templates
Build, manage, and continuously deliver cloud applications—using any platform or language
Quickly spin up app infrastructure environments with project-based templates
Streamline development with secure, ready-to-code workstations in the cloud
Get Azure innovation everywhere—bring the agility and innovation of cloud computing to your on-premises workloads
Secure, develop, and operate infrastructure, apps, and Azure services anywhere
Migrate, modernize, and innovate on the modern SQL family of cloud databases
Manage user identities and access to protect against advanced threats across devices, data, apps, and infrastructure
Personalize and help secure access to any application for customers and partners
Seamlessly integrate on-premises and cloud-based applications, data, and processes across your enterprise
Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale
Azure Data Manager for Agriculture extends the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform with industry-specific data connectors and capabilities to bring together farm data from disparate sources, enabling organizations to leverage high quality datasets and accelerate the development of digital agriculture solutions
Connect assets or environments, discover insights, and drive informed actions to transform your business
Unlock insights for intelligent local actions and global visibility. Enabled by Azure Arc
Create, connect, and maintain secured intelligent IoT devices from the edge to the cloud
Build intelligent edge solutions with world-class developer tools, long-term support, and enterprise-grade security.
Use an enterprise-grade service for the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle
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Simplify, automate, and optimize the management and compliance of your cloud resources
Build, manage, and monitor all Azure products in a single, unified console
Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency
Improve application resilience by introducing faults and simulating outages
Deliver high-quality video content anywhere, any time, and on any device
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Publish APIs to developers, partners, and employees securely and at scale
Connect cloud and on-premises infrastructure and services to provide your customers and users the best possible experience
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Private access to services hosted on the Azure platform, keeping your data on the Microsoft network
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Protect your enterprise from advanced threats across hybrid cloud workloads
Protect your Azure resources from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
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DevOps platforms have demonstrated immense importance in accelerating software delivery and fostering collaboration between development and operations teams. In the fast-paced landscape of software development, the culture of DevOps has been widely recognized and adopted as it unites people, processes, and technologies. The joint solution of GitHub and Azure, combined with the power of Visual Studio, can create order for previously staggered workflows and delayed deployments.
Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader by Gartner® and placed furthest for Completeness of Vision on the Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps platforms. Combined as a single DevOps solution, GitHub and Azure DevOps can address dev productivity challenges like slow coding, compromised quality, and mundane, repeatable tasks.
Microsoft offers an additional cloud development environment aside from GitHub Codespaces. Microsoft Dev Box gives developers self-service access to secure, high-performance workstations in the cloud that are preconfigured and ready-to-code for their projects. Dev Box enables developer teams to tailor their workstation to their projects with compute options to support even the most demanding workloads and integrations with tools like Visual Studio to deliver a seamless developer experience.
When an organization adopts GitHub and Azure DevOps, it encompasses more than just a set of tools that work well together. GitHub Enterprise is an enterprise-ready software development platform designed for the complex workflows of modern development. It’s no wonder it’s adopted by 90% of the Fortune 100. Azure DevOps supports a collaborative culture and set of processes that bring together developers, project managers, and contributors to create software. Together, development teams can seamlessly use their GitHub repositories with integrations with a variety of Azure DevOps services.
Plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern dev services.
Organizations can also easily integrate Visual Studio, the most widely used integrated development environment (IDE) on the market, for an even more productive workflow and seamless build.
A more recent evolution from DevOps principles is platform engineering. This new approach helps scale DevOps efforts across teams by standardizing development toolsets used across the organization and providing developers with self-service, on-demand access to deploy the resources they need via a secure, centrally managed platform. Platform engineering empowers developers to achieve scale by eliminating toil and reducing cognitive load while making it easier for admins to meet broader operational and organizational standards.
Many organizations have already adopted this mindset and have implemented their own internal platform engineering teams. In fact, Gartner projects that “By 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will establish platform engineering teams as internal providers of reusable services, components and tools for application delivery.”
Teams can leverage building blocks from Microsoft and its myriad of tools to create their own personalized, optimized, and secure developer experiences.
Microsoft also leads AI innovation with the most widely adopted AI developer tool—GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot now works within Visual Studio, enabling developers to stay in their workflow and complete tasks faster with the help of multi-line suggestions prompted by existing code and code comments. Building new functionality, writing unit tests, and learning new technologies has never been easier, streamlining the software development lifecycle (SDLC) like never before. The most recent feature added to this tool is Copilot Chat, enabling the rise of natural language as the new universal programming language for every developer on the planet.
With each of these platforms—DevOps and platform engineering—and continued innovation in AI through Copilot and Copilot Chat, Microsoft is helping guide development teams to success and foster a culture of continuous improvement and streamlined, satisfying developer experiences. Leveraging the Microsoft portfolio for DevOps workflows and platforms, organizations experience seamless, secure, yet flexible solutions to build next-gen applications where they want, when they want.
As organizations continue to navigate the dynamic landscape of DevOps and platform engineering, Microsoft will remain at the forefront, year over year. To unlock the full potential, download the report and learn more about the power of Microsoft DevOps solutions.
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms, Manjunath Bhat, Thomas Murphy, and 6 more, 5 June 2023.
Smarter With Gartner, “What Is Platform Engineering?,” October 26, 2023.
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