We are excited to stock that Microsoft has been recognized arsenic a Leader successful the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. In this report, Gartner placed Microsoft furthest successful Completeness of Vision.  Microsoft Azure’s broad unreality exertion level spans Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Functions to enactment exertion modernization and AI

We are excited to stock that Microsoft has been recognized arsenic a Leader successful the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. In this report, Gartner placed Microsoft furthest successful Completeness of Vision. 

Microsoft Azure’s broad unreality exertion level spans Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Functions to enactment exertion modernization and AI exertion innovation, with seamless integration with Azure AI, Azure databases, and fashionable developer tools similar GitHub and Visual Studio.

Microsoft’s unreality exertion level caters to improvement needs with wide and galore benefits to customers. Azure App Service is simply a level arsenic a work (PaaS) offering with built-in productivity and information features for web applications successful fashionable languages and frameworks specified arsenic .NET, Java, Node.js, and Python. Azure Container Apps is perfect for microservices and containerized applications, supporting buildpacks and .NET Aspire and Spring Boot to simplify improvement processes. With Azure Functions, developers tin leverage scalable, serverless, and event-driven exertion architectures to execute precocious show without incurring important costs.

Microsoft leads successful information and compliance, with important investments successful cybersecurity and an extended squad of information experts positioning it arsenic a apical prime for endeavor security. Microsoft and our customers presumption information arsenic a cardinal request for AI apps. Azure’s robust endeavor information and compliance crossed each layers, from exertion codification to data, adheres to liable AI practices passim Azure’s extended AI work portfolio.

Azure is the level of prime for AI applications

Microsoft is dedicated to making Azure the premier level for each your applications. As you make caller applications and modernize your existing estate, Azure’s unreality exertion level enables customers to conscionable the increasing request for AI applications, with an integrated level crossed apps, data, and AI services.

Microsoft Copilot successful Azure acts arsenic an adept companion for Azure App Service and Azure Functions helping you troubleshoot show issues, precocious CPU utilization, and networking problems. Through automatic scaling and precocious availability, Azure is optimized for the circumstantial show and standard requirements of AI applications. Azure’s app level besides integrates seamlessly with Azure databases and Azure AI Services, specified arsenic Azure OpenAI, on with fashionable improvement tools similar Visual Studio and GitHub, enabling developers to incorporated precocious AI capabilities into their applications and improvement environments. Azure’s app level includes built-in information controls and compliance certifications, ensuring that AI applications are protected against threats and adhere to manufacture standards.

At taxation time, we enactment millions of users simultaneously. The operation of .NET and Azure services powers AI Tax Assist to standard and negociate highest demands without issues. .NET easy interoperates with Microsoft Azure and Azure services, specified arsenic Azure OpenAI Service, Azure App Service, and Azure Functions, and offers seamless experiences for exemplary improvement and deployment, arsenic good arsenic deploying and managing applications” — Vin Kamat, Principal Architect, H&R Block 

Learn however customers similar KPMG, H&R Block, University of Sydney, KPN, and Denso Corporation are leveraging Azure’s unreality app platform, databases, and AI services for their AI app innovation.

Seamless app modernization and enhanced developer experience 

Microsoft is committed to ensuring customers are palmy successful modernizing existing applications with AI capabilities truthful organizations tin maximize their investments, enactment competitive, debar costly disruptions, and beryllium well-prepared for aboriginal AI advancements.

Azure Container Apps was precise utile erstwhile we implemented the microservice architecture utilizing Java. The beingness of Container Apps makes the Java connected Azure efforts rather attractive. With unreality services different than Azure, it is usually imaginable to marque elaborate settings connected services, but conversely, it tin besides beryllium said that we request to negociate adjacent the details to bring retired its performance. With Azure, determination is nary request for specified labour and we tin efficiently behaviour the full process from operation done operation” — Mr. Yoichi Ohara, Senior Manager, Fujitsu Japan Limited

Azure Migrate is Microsoft’s escaped instrumentality for migrating to and modernizing connected Azure. It offers accordant discovery, assessment, concern lawsuit analysis, planning, migration, and modernization capabilities crossed workloads. Microsoft’s offerings, Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate, enactment each signifier of your unreality journey—from migration to innovation with AI.

From an IT standpoint, we utilized to beryllium beauteous decentralized, with on-premises applications moving successful astir each state successful the world. A fewer years back, we migrated everyone to Microsoft Office 365. The earthy 2nd measurement was to determination each our on-premises infrastructures to Azure. We saw improvements close away. With Azure App Service, developers tin build, deploy, and standard web, mobile, and API applications without worrying astir the underlying infrastructure” — Quentin Drion, IT Director of Infrastructure and Operations, Mediterranean Shipping Company

Microsoft is committed to continuous concern successful AI, developer experience, exertion modernization, and extremity to extremity security. Our app level is globally distributed, catering to customers of each sizes and industries. 

Learn however customers similar Commercial Bank of Dubai, Scandinavian Airlines, Nexi, and National Basketball Association (NBA) leverage Azure’s Cloud app level to modernize their concern captious applications and present enhanced lawsuit acquisition with accrued developer productivity and security.

Getting started with Azure exertion platform 

We are incredibly arrogant of our achievements and the designation arsenic a Leader successful the Cloud Application Platform Magic Quadrant. The Azure exertion level offers a robust, developer affable situation to build, deploy, and modernize your applications with AI responsibly. 

• Read the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms report.
• Learn much astir migrating and modernizing to the Azure exertion platform.
• Learn much astir building and modernizing intelligent apps connected Azure.
• Engage with the Azure developer assemblage standup, hosted by our merchandise teams.
• Explore much connected the Microsoft Customer Stories page.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms by Tigran Egiazarov, Mukul Saha, Anne Thomas, Steve Schwent, Nov. 4, 2024

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