Infrastructure as a service
Meet all your cloud infrastructure needs.
New challenges need agile solutions. Invent with purpose.
Best-in-class cloud infrastructure
Create more value for your customers with highly available, secure and scalable cloud infrastructure on Azure. Quickly scale up and down when your needs change, and only pay for the resources that you use.
Azure regions
54 regions worldwide
More global regions than any other cloud provider
Compute performance
960 CPU threads
Largest in the public cloud
Memory
24 TB
Largest in the public cloud
Single disk storage
160,000 IOPS
Fastest in the public cloud
Local storage
3.7 million IOPS
Fastest in the public cloud
File storage
100,000 IOPS
Fastest in the public cloud
Hybrid networking
100 Gbps
Fastest in the public cloud
Compliance
90+ offerings
Most comprehensive in the public cloud
Four reasons to choose Azure IaaS
Provision the infrastructure that you need
Scale your compute performance from 1 vCPU to 480 vCPU cores and your memory from 1 GB to 24 TB. Tailor your disk storage capacity from 4 GB to 64 TB and reach up to 160,000 IOPS on a single disk. Rely on networking speeds from 30 Gbps Ethernet to 100 Gbps InfiniBand interconnects.
Choose the SLA that’s right for you: from the industry’s only 99.9 per cent single VM SLA to 99.99 per cent VM SLA across two or more Availability Zones.
Support the applications that you use
Use Windows or Linux applications and your favourite programming language. Run your enterprise-class applications such as SAP, Oracle, IBM and SharePoint, or choose from thousands of other workloads available in the Azure Marketplace.
Tap into nearly unlimited resources to tackle your most demanding high-performance computing (HPC) or AI challenges, and use purpose-built bare metal infrastructure to scale workloads such as SAP HANA to extreme levels.
Meet your hybrid cloud needs with Azure
Strengthen your security posture
Simplify data protection and help safeguard your data from ransomware or human errors with Azure Backup – Azure is the only public cloud that offers backup as a service.
Enable built-in controls across identity, networking, data and security management to help protect your hybrid cloud workloads. Gain instant insight into your security state with Azure Security Center. Modernise security operations with Azure Sentinel, the first cloud-native SIEM from a major cloud provider.
Govern and manage your cloud
Ensure compliance while enabling agility with built-in, free governance tools, such as Azure Policy and Azure Blueprints, and optimise your cloud spend with Azure Cost Management.
Simplify operations management across your hybrid cloud with a rich set of capabilities. Use Azure Monitor to get a 360-degree view of the performance of your applications, infrastructure and network. Manage Windows Servers on-premises, in Azure or in other clouds with Windows Admin Center.
Reduce and optimise infrastructure costs
Run your workloads in Azure and realise up to 435 per cent return on investment (ROI) over five years, according to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting.
Use Azure Cost Management at no charge to manage and optimise your cloud spend. Achieve significant cost savings by transferring your on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licences to the cloud with Azure Hybrid Benefit and by paying in advance for predictable workloads with Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs). In fact, AWS is five times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server.
The total economic impact of Azure IaaS
Evaluate the potential financial impact of Azure IaaS on your organisation. This Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, from Forrester Consulting commissioned by Microsoft, examines the potential ROI enterprises that may be realised by shifting some or all their management and operations from on-premises, hosted and outsourced implementations to Azure’s IaaS offering.
Enterprise Cloud Strategy
Learn how to establish a strategy for executing your enterprise cloud migration with the e-book Enterprise Cloud Strategy, Third Edition. You will learn about:
- What to consider when choosing between hybrid, public or private cloud environments.
- How cloud enhances on-premises computing and reduces costs.
- New analytics and IoT capabilities.
- Security and compliance considerations.
Have more questions?
Email Us
We will get back to you on the same business day.
Give Us A Call
0333 358 0193
Live Chat
Speak to our sales team today.
