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Azure for Education

Inspire innovation in education with Microsoft Azure

Power your school with Microsoft Azure, a flexible, scalable, and secure cloud and AI platform to enhance learning experiences, streamline operations, and save time to focus on what matters most—preparing students for the future.
BENEFITS

Drive limitless innovation with a trusted and integrated cloud platform

  • Use the power of Azure AI Services to provide personalized student learning experiences, streamline administrative tasks with Microsoft Copilot, and help secure data on a reliable platform.
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  • Streamline and centralize your institution's data and analytics to boost collaboration, help protect sensitive data, and turn insights into action.
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  • Accelerate research at scale with a robust, cloud-based technology environment that maximizes innovation and learning, all while backed by built-in, world-class cybersecurity.
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SOLUTIONS

Explore Azure AI and data solutions

Azure AI Services

Build your own custom copilot to create intelligent experiences across campus.
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Azure AI Foundry

A unified platform to design, customize, and manage AI solutions.
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Microsoft Fabric

Give your data teams all the tools they need in a unified experience within a single AI-powered platform.
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Azure SQL

Migrate, modernize, and innovate with the modern SQL family of cloud database services.
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Azure Arc

Secure, manage, and modernize your IT resources across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with Azure Arc.
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Azure Virtual Desktop

Provide secured remote desktops and apps to employees. Simplify management of your virtualized desktop and app environment with Azure Virtual Desktop.
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Students do more with Azure

Discover the free resources available to students and get them started on building apps, learning with big data sets, exploring AI applications, and other hands-on learning experiences.
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Start your students with $100 Azure credit

Students can build in the cloud for free with Azure for Students. They can use an eligible university or school email to sign up and receive $100 in credit, renewable each year the user is still a student. Plus, they can take advantage of free products (some are always free to all Azure customers, and some are free for 12 months to new customers only).
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Try Azure

Get started with Azure today

Get immediate access to the full suite of Azure products and features by signing up for a free Azure account. Our experts can also help you customize Azure for your needs and advise on deployment and management.
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School stories

See how Azure has helped schools like yours

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“We’re leveraging some of the new capabilities that we have in Microsoft 365 to secure, track, and monitor our data to ensure we’re preventing leakage from happening.”
Stephen Whiffin, Assistant Superintendent and CIO, School District No. 43 (Coquitlam)
Products and Services
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Power BI
  • Power Apps
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Arizona Department of Education logo
“Our Azure story is really one of increasing efficiency—we’re able to do so much more now with the same budget and the same staff.”
Edward Block, Head of Production Services, Arizona Department of Education
Products and Services
  • Azure
  • Azure App Service
  • Azure Blob Storage
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Nebraska Department of Education logo
“[Azure tools have] enabled the opportunity for us to do this predictive work and experiment with machine learning models adding value .... We’ve jumped into the whole Synapse platform in our Azure experience.”
Dr. Dean Folkers, Director, Data and Technology, Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), former Chief Information Officer, Nebraska Department of Education
Products and Services
  • Azure
  • Azure Data Factory
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“Power BI has been an outstanding product for us. It really makes the hard-to-look-at data very easy to digest. [Power BI] makes it so that anyone can look at a chart, decide which students are in need, and provide necessary resources.”
Tim Fleming, Director of Technology Services, Forsyth County School District
Products and Services
  • Power BI
  • Azure
  • Azure SQL Database
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“By utilizing the advanced language models in Azure OpenAI Service, Cool English is taking an innovative step for English education in Taiwan, helping students reach their learning goals.”
Dr. Hao-Jan Howard Chen, Professor, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University
Products and Services
  • Azure AI Services
  • Azure AI Studio
  • Azure AI Speech
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Training and resources

Use, migrate, and manage Azure

Discover educational and support resources designed to help educators, students, and IT professionals use Azure to the fullest extent.
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For IT professionals

Azure Fundamentals

Explore basic cloud concepts and deploy your first service with Azure Fundamentals, our online training series.
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For IT leaders

Azure Well-Architected Framework

See best practices and resources to help you make informed decisions about cloud workload technology, and implementation.
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For students

Student developer resources

Gain skills to jump start your career and make a positive impact on the world with cloud computing with Azure.
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For educators

Microsoft AI Bootcamp for Educators – Azure AI Fundamentals

Gain the knowledge and skills to include AI-related training in your courses and programs of study.
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For researchers

Azure for Researchers: Introduction to Cloud Computing

This four-module learning path serves as an introduction to cloud computing for researchers.
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Frequently asked questions

  • Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that offers services such as computing, analytics, storage, and networking to support the creation and management of applications. Azure tools and services enable K-12 and higher education institutions to enhance teaching and learning experiences, facilitate research, and offer a scalable and secure IT infrastructure. Learn more.
  • Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the internet to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. Learn more
  • With a highly secure cloud foundation managed by Microsoft, Azure provides multilayered, built-in security controls and unique threat intelligence to help identify and protect against rapidly evolving cyberthreats. Learn more
  • Start with Azure Fundamentals, an online training series exploring basic cloud concepts. Get a streamlined overview of Azure services and practical exercises to deploy your first service. Start learning
  • The Azure Well-Architected Framework offers proven best practices, guidance, and resources to help you make informed decisions about cloud workload design, technology, and implementation. Learn more
  • Azure global infrastructure is both the physical infrastructure and the connective network components. The physical component includes 300+ physical datacenters, linked by one of the largest interconnected networks on the planet. Together, these components keep data entirely within the trusted Microsoft network and IP traffic never enters the public internet.
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Blog

Reimagining student experiences with Azure OpenAI Service

Learn how generative AI empowers higher education leaders to reimagine learning models, reduce administrative burdens, and advance academic research.
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Blog

Protect educational data with Azure

Learn about Microsoft services that enable schools and institutions to securely backup data and restore applications and infrastructure in case of a breach.
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Utilize Microsoft Azure Cloud services to plan for disaster recovery

Explore how you can effectively utilize Microsoft Azure Cloud services to comprehensively plan and orchestrate your disaster recovery strategy.
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    Improving Educational Outcomes With Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned by Microsoft, July 2024.

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