We are excited to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. In this report, Gartner placed Microsoft the furthest in Completeness of Vision.
We are excited to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. In this report, Gartner placed Microsoft the furthest in Completeness of Vision.
Microsoft Azure’s comprehensive cloud application platform includes Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Functions to support application modernization and AI application innovation, with seamless integration with Azure AI, Azure Databases, and popular developer tools such as GitHub and Visual Studio.
Microsoft’s cloud application platform addresses development needs with clear and numerous customer benefits. Azure App Service is a platform as a service (PaaS) that offers built-in productivity and security features for web applications in popular languages and frameworks such as .NET, Java, Node.js, and Python. Azure Container Apps is ideal for microservices and containerized applications that support builds and .NET Aspire and Spring Boot to simplify development processes. With Azure Functions, developers can leverage scalable, serverless, and event-driven application architectures to achieve high performance without incurring significant costs.
Microsoft is a leader in security and compliance, with significant investments in cyber security and an extensive team of security experts making it the best choice for enterprise security. Microsoft and our customers consider security a key requirement for AI applications. Azure’s robust enterprise security and compliance at every layer, from application code to data, adheres to responsible AI practices across Azure’s extensive portfolio of AI services.
Azure is a platform for AI applications
Microsoft is dedicated to making Azure the world-class platform for all your applications. As you develop new applications and modernize your existing assets, the Azure cloud application platform enables customers to meet the growing demand for AI applications with an integrated platform across AI applications, data and services.
Microsoft Copilot in Azure acts as an expert companion for Azure App Service and Azure Functions to help you troubleshoot performance, high CPU usage, and network issues. With automatic scaling and high availability, Azure is optimized for the specific performance and scaling requirements of AI applications. Azure Application Platform also seamlessly integrates with Azure Databases and Azure AI services such as Azure OpenAI, along with popular development tools such as Visual Studio and GitHub, enabling developers to incorporate advanced AI capabilities into their applications and development environments. The Azure Application Platform includes built-in security checks and compliance certifications that ensure AI applications are protected from threats and adhere to industry standards.
At tax time, we support millions of users simultaneously. The combination of .NET and Azure services enables AI Tax Assist to scale and manage peak demands seamlessly. .NET easily interacts with Microsoft Azure and Azure services such as Azure OpenAI Service, Azure App Service, and Azure Functions, offering seamless capabilities for model development and deployment, as well as application deployment and management.” — Vin Kamat, Principal Architect, H&R Block
Learn how customers such as KPMG, H&R Block, University of Sydney, KPN, and Denso Corporation are leveraging Azure’s cloud application platform, databases, and AI services for their AI application innovations.
Seamless application upgrades and improved developer experience
Microsoft is committed to ensuring that customers are successful in modernizing existing applications with AI capabilities so that organizations can maximize their investment, stay competitive, avoid costly downtime, and be well prepared for future advances in AI.
Azure Container Apps was very helpful when we implemented a microservices architecture using Java. The existence of Container Apps makes Java on Azure efforts quite attractive. For cloud services other than Azure, it is usually possible to perform detailed service settings, but on the other hand, it can also be said that we also need to manage the details to increase their performance. With Azure, there is no need for such work, and we can effectively manage the entire process from construction to operation.” — Mr. Yoichi Ohara, Senior Manager, Fujitsu Japan Limited
Azure Migrate is Microsoft’s free tool for migrating and upgrading to Azure. It offers consistent capabilities for discovery, assessment, business case analysis, planning, migration and modernization across workloads. Microsoft’s Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate offerings support every stage of your cloud journey, from migration to innovation with AI.
From an IT perspective, we used to be quite decentralized, with local applications running in almost every country in the world. A few years ago, we migrated everything to Microsoft Office 365. The natural second step was to move all of our on-premises infrastructure to Azure. We saw an immediate improvement. With Azure App Service, developers can build, deploy, and scale web, mobile, and API applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. — Quentin Drion, Director of IT Infrastructure and Operations, Mediterranean Shipping Company
Microsoft is committed to continuous investment in artificial intelligence, developer experience, application modernization, and end-to-end security. Our application platform is globally distributed and caters to customers of all sizes and industries.
Learn how customers such as Commercial Bank of Dubai, Scandinavian Airlines, Nexi, and the National Basketball Association (NBA) are using the Azure cloud application platform to modernize their mission-critical applications and deliver an improved customer experience with increased developer productivity and security.
We’re getting started with the Azure Application Platform
We are incredibly proud of our achievements and recognition as a leader in the magic quadrant of the cloud application platform. Azure Application Platform offers a robust, developer-friendly environment for responsibly building, deploying, and modernizing your applications with AI.
Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms Tigran Egiazarov, Mukul Saha, Anne Thomas, Steve Schwent November 4, 2024
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