Find and understand your players quickly
Publish live player rankings, access game segment data to manage in-game ads, and capture real-time, in-game events for downstream processing to build a deeper understanding of players—all in real time.
Data & Storage
Give your players the best experience by choosing a provider with the best scale, security, and reliability.
Data services with scale and security
The data in your game is only as good as what you can do with it, so give your players the best experience by choosing a provider with the best scale, security, and reliability. With Azure, you can focus on giving your players the experience they deserve with data that’s captured, scaled, analyzed, and transferred securely around the globe.
Create real-time player rankings
Access gameplay data for millions of players in real time. Maximize performance and speed up debugging with automatic tuning powered by machine learning.
Scale quickly and never lose data
Accommodate unpredictable bursts in player activity with databases that scale elastically, deliver low-latency multiplayer experiences, and enable faster debugging using mobile in-game events.
Customer success stories
Kaizen Gaming embraces AI to redefine the player experience
Customer Story
Azure helps Kaizen Gaming increase personalization, create a frictionless player experience & improve operations.
Azure-based environment gives users the power to make games
Customer Story
Gotcha Gotcha Games is served by a combination of Azure PaaS and containers that provide essential functions.
beanfun! Building an Open Source API Platform
Customer Story
beanfun! combines Azure & Open Source technologies to simplify development, deployment & integration with partners
Blog posts
How Minecraft Realms moved its databases from AWS to Azure
Article // Dec 3, 2020
In this post, we deep dive into how the Realms team moved all its database components to Azure.
Migrating Minecraft Realms from AWS to Azure
Article // Oct 1, 2020
Stay tuned for the upcoming blog series about the successful migration of Minecraft Realms from AWS to Azure.
Esports players gain an edge with Azure and Power BI
Article // Jun 19, 2020
Competitive esports organization Cloud9 fields 14 teams across 12 of the most popular esports.