--- 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: 2024-01-17T08:40:42Z 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/).