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Azure Essentials for Partners

Explore technical methodologies and tools, derived from real-world customer experiences.
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Empower Your Cloud and AI Journey

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Gain an edge when getting started

Establish a foundation at the start of every project for successful cloud and AI adoption.
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Achieve architectural excellence

Implement with the latest design and governance to achieve reliable, secure and sustainable projects.
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Enable continuous improvement

Manage and optimize every project to deliver business and IT objectives.

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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Go to market with Azure

Expedite development and find guidance, resources, and tools relevant to your business needs.

Improve customer resiliency

Explore technical methodologies and tools, derived from real-world customer experiences.

Improve customer resiliency

Explore technical methodologies and tools, derived from real-world customer experiences.

Skill Up

Access our Resiliency content

Workshop On-Demand
Access our Proactive Resiliency Workshops on demand.
Deliver workshops
Show customers how to assess and remediate critical workloads in this one-day workshop.

Migrate and Modernize your Estate

Accelerate innovation with a comprehensive migration and modernization approach for the entire customer IT estate across applications, databases, and infrastructure while ensuring robust end-to-end Security across every workload.

Migrate and Modernize your Estate

Accelerate innovation with a comprehensive migration and modernization approach for the entire customer IT estate across applications, databases, and infrastructure while ensuring robust end-to-end Security across every workload.

Skill up
Access our Partner Workshops on demand.
Migrate workloads with CAF
The Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) migration methodology relies on proven guidance to help you prepare for and carry out your migration efforts.
Deliver workshops
Provide your customers with best practices and considerations for moving to Azure in this one-day workshop.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

Unify your Data Platform

Accelerate capturing the market share of the entire data opportunity by landing that Azure is the best destination for first party and third-party data solutions.

Unify your Data Platform

Accelerate capturing the market share of the entire data opportunity by landing that Azure is the best destination for first party and third-party data solutions.

Skill up
Explore the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric.
Build an initial strategy
Build your data strategy and pivot to create a data driven strategy for your organization.
Deliver workshops
Educate customers in this one-day virtual workshop format.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

Innovate with Azure AI Apps and Agents

To capitalize on AI market momentum and the rise of AI agents, we will position Azure as the strategic and integrated end-to-end AI, application, and developer platform of choice for enterprises and SDCs.

Innovate with Azure AI Apps and Agents

To capitalize on AI market momentum and the rise of AI agents, we will position Azure as the strategic and integrated end-to-end AI, application, and developer platform of choice for enterprises and SDCs.

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Register for our AI Ready workshops

Create a blueprint
Establish a solid foundation for AI for organization scale AI adoption.
Deliver the pitch
Enhance 1:1 customer meetings and encourage next steps.
Review Guidance
Step-by-step guidance on recommended activities to ensure successful customer engagements.

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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Improve customer resiliency

Help customers elevate reliability, security, and performance of their workloads for cloud and AI investments with technical guidance and customer engagement resources.
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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

Announcing Azure Essentials
Elevate the reliability, security, and ongoing performance of your cloud and AI investments.
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.

Discover more about Azure partner benefits

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