Free Microsoft Azure AlternativesCloud Computing & Cloud Hosting Services like Microsoft Azure

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
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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...

    79 OpenStack alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. 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.

    154 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. OpenShift icon
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    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.

    66 OpenShift alternatives

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
     
  5. 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.

    173 Amazon Web Services alternatives

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    Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure Comments
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    AWS is the main competitor to Azure.

    • Amazon Web Services is Freemium and ProprietaryMicrosoft Azure is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Vercel icon
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    Deploy to the most powerful serverless platform in the world with just one command.

    97 Vercel alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Fly.io icon
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    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.

    56 Fly.io alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  8. Laravel Cloud icon
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    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
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    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Internxt Drive icon
     69 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.

    167 Internxt Drive alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. 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
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
  11. Ubicloud icon
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    Open, free, and portable cloud. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), and virtual networking services in public alpha.

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. CloudStack icon
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    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
     
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