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Who runs Microsoft, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest cloud computing alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- DigitalOcean
Measured from Microsoft’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Microsoft01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Microsoft
Microsoft azure.net
Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Microsoft tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 13 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Microsoft’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Microsoft
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Microsoft, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean
Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.
Very close - 02
IBM
For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.
Very close - 03
American multinational computer corporation
Very close - 04
The secure, fault-tolerant cloud platform from Yandex
Build your digital services and applications with the enterprise-grade cloud platform made by Yandex.
Very close - 05
Alibaba Cloud: Reliable Secure Cloud Solutions to Empower Your Global Business
Alibaba Cloud offers a integrated suite of cloud products and services that are reliable and secure, to help you build cloud infrastructure, data centers in multi regions empower your global business. Try for Free.
Very close - 06
European Cloud & AI. | Scaleway
Build on a secure, transparent, and fast-moving cloud & AI platform built for what’s next.
Very close - 07
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
Very close - 08
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Very close - 09
Snowflake AI Data Cloud
Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation.
Very close - 10 Cloudreach cloudreach.com
public service consultancy
Very close - 11
One platform to connect | Zoom
Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, Zoom Chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.
Very close - 12
Box | AI-Powered Content Management, Workflow & Collaboration
Intelligent Content Management makes it easy to automate workflows, collaborate internally and externally, and protect your sensitive data, all on one platform.
Very close - 13
Build AI Infrastructure Your Way, Anywhere | Mirantis
The simple and frictionless way to manage AI workload clusters across clouds, on-prem, hybrid and edge
Very close - 14
Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools
Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
Very close - 15
ChromeOS – das sichere Cloud-First-Betriebssystem für Ihr Unternehmen
Kennen Sie schon ChromeOS, das sichere Cloud-First-Betriebssystem, mit dem Sie Ihr Unternehmen voranbringen und die Erwartungen Ihrer Mitarbeitenden an moderne Arbeitsumgebungen erfüllen können?
Very close - 16
Rackspace Technology | Where Enterprise AI runs and outcomes scale
As a cloud computing services pioneer, we deliver proven multicloud solutions across your apps, data, and security. Maximize the benefits of modern cloud.
Very close - 17
Qlik Data Integration, Data Quality, and Analytics Solutions
Qlik, now with Talend, delivers a data fabric and next-level insights with its end-to-end data integration, data quality, & analytics solutions.
Very close - 18
Fly.io | Deploy apps and agents on fast, hardware-isolated VMs
Deploy apps, agents, and databases on fast, hardware-isolated VMs. Pay only for the seconds they run. Sign up free.
Very close - 19
Autonomous Knowledge Platform | Teradata
Teradata is the AI platform for the autonomous era, connecting and scaling across any environment.
Very close - 20
Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool
Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Microsoft’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Microsoft uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Microsoft adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Microsoft’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /etc.clientlibs/
- CDN
- Akamai header x-akamai-transformed: 9 - 0 pmb=mRUM,2
- Azure Front Door header x-azure-ref: 20261106T091552Z-178f79cc84cscn58hC1AMSu51s0000000z9g000000…
- DNS hosting
- Azure DNS NS ns3-39.azure-dns.org
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on azure.net 18/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on azure.net 13/20
- Atlassian · not on azure.net 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on azure.net 11/20
- Apple Business · not on azure.net 11/20
- Proofpoint · not on azure.net 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on azure.net 7/20
- OpenAI · not on azure.net 6/20
- Adobe · not on azure.net 6/20
- OneTrust · not on azure.net 6/20
- DocuSign · not on azure.net 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on azure.net 5/20
- React · not on azure.net 5/20
- Salesforce · not on azure.net 5/20
- Stripe · not on azure.net 5/20
- Akamai 5/20