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Azure Essentials

Help customers accelerate the reliability, security, and ongoing performance of AI and cloud investments to maximize value and empower transformation.
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Prepare for cloud success with partner training

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Harness security
Secure and protect the cloud and accelerate customers' growth and innovation with Azure security best practices.
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Improve reliability
Maximize customers' cloud resiliency and availability with expert insights on Azure's built-in reliability services.
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Optimize performance 
Drive customers' performance efficiency and improve their workload scalability with comprehensive guidance, trainings, and checklists for architecture best practices.

The partner opportunity

The Total Economic Impact (TEI) of Microsoft Azure Resilience Guidance

Read a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting and learn how to assess the financial impact of improving your customers' workload resiliency.
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Manage cloud investments more efficiently to meet customer needs

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Learn how Azure resources support success in the cloud
The Cloud Adoption Framework, Well-Architected Framework, and FinOps best practices work together to provide opportunities for continuous improvement with Azure.
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FinOps with Azure
Download the FinOps with Azure e-book and learn how to help customers better manage cloud resources, process forecasting efficiency and cloud spending more quickly, and implement financial management best practices using Azure solutions.

Accelerate your cloud journey with best practices and expert insights

Azure partner-led offerings
Lead cloud and AI transformation across more scenarios with Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate, underpinned by foundational guidance and best practices from Azure Essentials.
FastTrack for Azure
Collaborate with Azure engineers to ensure rapid, effective design and deployment of Azure solutions in the cloud.
Azure solution plays
Get solution play-level guidance tailored to the needs of your customers.

Azure success stories

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MediaValet
Learn how a leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) company leveraged Microsoft Azure to help the Jane Goodall Institute centralize and make accessible more than 1.5 million content assets securely, reliably, and globally.
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KPMG
Discover how this "Big 4" accounting firm unleashes the power of Azure to enable app development teams to develop workloads quickly in the cloud.

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Azure can help you infuse AI to solve evolving customer challenges, improve IT efficiency, and optimize your cloud investments.
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