Merge pull request #511 from qdrant/mjang-azure-blog

Qdrant/Azure blog announcement

qdrant-landing/content/blog/qdrant-cloud-on-microsoft-azure.md

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+draft: false
+title: Introducing Qdrant Cloud on Microsoft Azure
+slug: qdrant-cloud-on-microsoft-azure
+short_description: Qdrant Cloud is now available on Microsoft Azure
+description: "Learn the benefits of Qdrant Cloud on Azure."
+preview_image: /blog/from_cms/qdrant-azure-2-1.png
+date: 2024-01-17
+author: Manuel Meyer
+featured: false
+tags:
+  - Data Science
+  - Vector Database
+  - Machine Learning
+  - Information Retrieval
+  - Cloud
+  - Azure
+---
+Great news! We've expanded Qdrant's managed vector database offering — [Qdrant Cloud](https://cloud.qdrant.io/) — to be available on Microsoft Azure. 
+You can now effortlessly set up your environment on Azure, which reduces deployment time, so you can hit the ground running.
+
+[Get started](https://cloud.qdrant.io/)
+
+What this means for you:
+
+- **Rapid application development**: Deploy your own cluster through the Qdrant Cloud Console within seconds and scale your resources as needed.
+- **Billion vector scale**: Seamlessly grow and handle large-scale datasets with billions of vectors. Leverage Qdrant features like horizontal scaling and binary quantization with Microsoft Azure's scalable infrastructure.
+
+**"With Qdrant, we found the missing piece to develop our own provider independent multimodal generative AI platform at enterprise scale."** -- Jeremy Teichmann (AI Squad Technical Lead & Generative AI Expert), Daly Singh (AI Squad Lead & Product Owner) - Bosch Digital.
+
+Get started by [signing up for a Qdrant Cloud account](https://cloud.qdrant.io). And learn more about Qdrant Cloud in our [docs](https://qdrant.tech/documentation/cloud/).
+
+<video autoplay="true" loop="true" width="100%" controls><source src="/blog/qdrant-cloud-on-azure/azure-cluster-deployment-short.mp4" type="video/mp4"></video>
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