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The best free alternative to Microsoft Azure is OpenStack, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Azure and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Microsoft Azure are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Google App Engine, OpenShift and Amazon Web Services.

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  1. OpenStack icon

    OpenStack

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    OpenStack OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement...

    78 OpenStack alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    • This alternative is disputed. OpenStack is a legitimate Microsoft Azure alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • OpenStack is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Microsoft Azure.

    • OpenStack is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Microsoft Azure.

    • OpenStack is Free and Open SourceMicrosoft Azure is Paid and Proprietary
    • OpenStack is Privacy focusedMicrosoft Azure is not according to our users
  2. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud icon

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

     53 likes

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

    150 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
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    • Some users think Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a great Microsoft Azure alternative, some don't.

    • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is the most popular SaaS alternative to Microsoft Azure.

    • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is Freemium and ProprietaryMicrosoft Azure is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Google App Engine icon

    Google App Engine

     68 likes

    Google App Engine is a free* platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. App Engine offers fast development and deployment; simple administration, with no need to worry about hardware, patches or backups; and effortless scalability.

    60 Google App Engine alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. OpenShift icon

    OpenShift

     89 likes

    Red Hat OpenShift is a trusted, comprehensive, and consistent platform to develop, modernize, and deploy applications at scale, including today’s AI-enabled apps. Deliver better experiences faster with a complete set of services for bringing apps to market on your choice of infrastructure.

    65 OpenShift alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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  7. Amazon Web Services icon

    Amazon Web Services

     41 likes

    This service provides over 200 scalable cloud offerings including networking, computing, storage, and IoT, accessible via global server farms. It features a pay-as-you-go model with autoscaling, extensive global infrastructure, and robust security tools, suitable for enterprises.

    164 Amazon Web Services alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • This alternative is disputed. Amazon Web Services is a legitimate Microsoft Azure alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Amazon Web Services is Freemium and ProprietaryMicrosoft Azure is Paid and Proprietary
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    Fly.io

     12 likes

    Edge computing is the new frontier. Fly brings the untapped potential of intelligent edge-servers to your finger-tips. It's a global load balancer, a smart reverse proxy, a library of powerful Middleware; it's a CDN that developers like you control.

    53 Fly.io alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  11. Laravel Cloud icon

    Laravel Cloud

     4 likes

    Effortlessly deploy and scale Laravel apps without server management. Enjoy built-in autoscaling, caching, and enterprise-grade security. Start quickly in under 60 seconds with zero configuration, access logs, metrics, and more. Manage multiple environments and team collaboration seamlessly.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Internxt Drive icon

    Internxt Drive

     68 likes

    Open-source, privacy-focused cloud storage using zero-knowledge encryption and blockchain technology, provides secure file transfer, end-to-end encryption, free 10 GB plan, desktop and mobile support, full user control, and no data tracking or ads.

    163 Internxt Drive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • Internxt Drive is the most popular Android, Mac, iPhone & iPad alternative to Microsoft Azure.

    • Internxt Drive is Freemium and Open SourceMicrosoft Azure is Paid and Proprietary
    • Internxt Drive is Privacy focused and Security-focusedMicrosoft Azure is not according to our users
  13. Amazon WorkSpaces Family icon

    Amazon WorkSpaces Family

     3 likes

    Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution which runs on AWS. With Amazon WorkSpaces, you can easily provision virtual, cloud-based Microsoft Windows desktops for your users, providing them access to the documents, applications, and...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
  14. CloudStack icon

    CloudStack

     8 likes

    Apache's CloudStack is a Project backed by Citrix and designed to be a direct competitor to OpenStack. It is designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

    32 CloudStack alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
     
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