Microsoft – Azure — Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a global hyperscale cloud computing platform offering infrastructure, data, AI, and cybersecurity services. Aviation organizations use Azure as the underlying cloud backbone for flight operations systems, data analytics, and digital transformation initiatives, benefiting from Microsoft's global data center footprint, enterprise-grade security, and extensive AI/ML tooling.

Microsoft Azure is a general purpose hyperscale cloud platform providing compute, storage, networking, data, AI and security services. It has no aviation specific product: aviation organizations use Azure as the infrastructure underneath flight operations, maintenance and analytics applications built either in house or by aviation software vendors. The services aviation buyers most often evaluate are Azure OpenAI and Azure Machine Learning, Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric for data platforms, and Microsoft Defender, Sentinel and Purview for security and data protection. Commercial terms are consumption based with enterprise agreements available, and delivery normally runs through a Microsoft partner or the buyer's own IT team.