Microsoft Azure is described as 'The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and' and is a popular Cloud Computing service in the backup & sync category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Azure for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Linux, SaaS, Windows and Self-Hosted apps. The best Microsoft Azure alternative is DigitalOcean. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenStack or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Other great apps like Microsoft Azure are Heroku, Linode, Google App Engine and OpenShift.