Azure

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Cloud Computing Platform & Services.

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CategoryCloud Platforms

PricingFree tier available+ paid plans

Self-hostableNo

Related reading

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Alternatives to Azure

Hosted & commercial alternatives

Alibaba Cloud—

Integrated suite of cloud products and services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)—

Cloud Computing Services.

Clever Cloud—

European Platform as a Service (PaaS) with managed databases and object storage.

DigitalOcean—

Helping developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size.

Global data center and colocation provider for enterprise network and cloud computing.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—

Cloud Computing Services.