Azure Stack Portfolio
Understand Azure Stack Hub, Edge, and HCI as offline-capable or edge-deployment platforms, and choose the right variant for sovereign cloud or disconnected scenarios.
Why Azure Stack Exists
Not every workload can run in the public cloud. Regulatory restrictions may require data to stay in a specific facility. Remote locations (oil rigs, military bases, factory floors) may have unreliable or no internet connectivity. Some industries require extreme data sovereignty. Azure Stack is a family of products that brings Azure services and management to environments where the public cloud cannot be used — while maintaining consistency with Azure APIs, tooling, and governance practices.
Three Products in the Stack Portfolio
The Azure Stack portfolio has three distinct products: Azure Stack Hub — an on-premises integrated system that runs a subset of Azure services in your own data centre. Azure Stack HCI — a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) operating system for running virtualised workloads on commodity hardware with Azure management. Azure Stack Edge — a hardware appliance with GPU/FPGA for edge AI inference and data transfer to Azure, designed for locations with limited connectivity. Each targets a different primary use case.