Infrastructure2026-05-17
Azure (Microsoft Azure)
Also known as: Azure / Microsoft Azure / アジュール
Microsoft's cloud platform and the world's second-largest by market share. Its strength lies in enterprise integration with Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and Entra ID, plus Azure OpenAI Service from its OpenAI partnership.
Overview
Azure's deep integration with Microsoft products (Teams, SharePoint, Windows Server) drives adoption among large Japanese enterprises with existing Microsoft infrastructure. Azure OpenAI Service lets organizations use GPT models under enterprise security controls.
.NET Affinity
.NET Core and ASP.NET Core applications deploy most seamlessly to Azure App Service or AKS. See cloud migration guide (AWS and Azure).
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