The 18 Best Azure Managed Service Providers for 2024

Solutions Review’s listing of the best Azure managed service providers is an annual sneak peak of the vendors included in our Buyer’s Guide for Cloud Managed Service Providers. Information was gathered via online materials and reports, conversations with vendor representatives, and examinations of product demonstrations and free trials.

The editors at Solutions Review have developed this resource to assist buyers in search of the best Azure managed service providers to fit the needs of their organization. Choosing the right vendor and services can be a complicated process — one that requires in-depth research and often comes down to more than just the tool and its technical capabilities. To make your search a little easier, we’ve profiled the best Azure managed service providers all in one place. We’ve also included platform names and areas of focus, as well as introductory software tutorials straight from the source so you can see each solution in action.

Note: The best Azure managed service providers are listed in alphabetical order.

The Best Azure Managed Service Providers

Accenture

Areas of Focus: Cloud Transformation, Cloud Engineering

Description: Accenture is a managed service provider for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud offering cloud services and cloud-based solutions involving strategy, consulting, and operations. They provide help with security, scalability, migration, and agility, as well as defining support roles and using automation to infuse intelligence into IT service delivery. Accenture’s cloud services range from general-purpose for all enterprises to vertical-specific solutions that are tailor-made for businesses in different industries, with a reach that spans across the globe.

Avanade

Areas of Focus: Digital and Cloud Services, Application Services

Description: Avanade, founded in 2000 by Microsoft and Accenture, is a professional services and managed service provider for Azure. The company runs independently of both of its parent companies and assists customers in getting the most out of their Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Azure. Avanade boasts that it has more Microsoft Certified Professionals working on Azure than any other company, delivering a set of managed Azure services and years of knowledge in designing, building, and deploying enterprise-grade solutions for the platform.

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Capgemini

Areas of Focus: Cloud Strategy, Workload Migration

Description: Capgemini is a Paris-based managed service provider for AWS and Azure that has offices all across the globe. Its enterprise-grade public cloud managed services enable companies to deploy the public cloud as a business solution, helping users identify and migrate the workloads suitable for their cloud deployments. In addition to their public cloud IaaS managed services, Capgemini assists businesses in integrating public cloud services with their other enterprise IT solutions.

Cloudreach

Areas of Focus: Infrastructure and Application Services

Description: Cloudreach is a hyperscale managed service provider for AWS and Azure, and Google Cloud. The vendor offers two different types of managed cloud services: services that prepare a client’s systems, processes, and culture for the cloud, and services that helps clients optimize their returns and open them up to new opportunities. Cloudreach also teaches clients how to operate and optimize their cloud deployment and offers reliability services that provide continuous improvements to critical business operations running in the cloud.

Cognizant

Areas of Focus: Cloud Enablement, Digital Transformation

Description: Cognizant is a professional services company and managed service provider for AWS and Azure. The vendor’s cloud services include consulting, operations, migration, security, and enterprise resource planning. Cognizant’s cloud management services define optimal operations framework for continuous delivery across private, public, or hybrid cloud models. The company can develop a wide range of cloud applications for various compliance-regulated industries. Since 2012, Cognizant has offered services for all major hyperscale cloud infrastructure providers.

Deloitte

Areas of Focus: Cloud Strategy, Cloud Migration

Description: Deloitte is a professional services company and managed service provider for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The company helps clients that need full support designing, building, and running their cloud environments. Deloitte also offers hands-on support and assists customers in re-engineering existing IT processes to add automation of traditional managed services. The vendor also offers SaaS products that emphasize their core expertise, such as payroll management, global tax services, financial advisory, and supply chain planning.

DXC Technology

Areas of Focus: Hybrid IT, Cloud Modernization, Cloud Migration

Description: DXC Technology is a managed service provider for AWS and Azure established from the merger between CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The company places an emphasis on providing managed cloud services and building a unique blueprint that enables its customers to deploy hybrid IT and hybrid cloud environments. DXC Technology’s partner network includes companies like HP, Lenovo, Micro Focus, and Oracle, allowing enterprises to personalize the tools for their cloud under DXC.

HCL Technologies

Areas of Focus: Cloud Application Design, Cloud Migration

Description: HCL Technologies is a global IT services company and managed service provider for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The company’s services range from migration to building cloud-native applications. HCL’s approach to the cloud revolves around their Mode 1-2-3 strategy; each mode consists of processes for different levels of cloud computing. The strategy’s objective is to build and maintain stable growth in the client’s market. HCL works to build “future-proof” tools and applications and provide life-cycle support for large enterprise clouds.

Hitachi Digital Services

Areas of Focus: Cloud Adoption, Cloud Migration

Description: Hitachi Digital Services is a long-time Microsoft Cloud Solution Partner and operates efficient Azure utilization through comprehensive monitoring, management, and automation while tailoring solutions to meet precise customer requirements with Microsoft Certified expertise. They ensure efficient Azure utilization through comprehensive monitoring, management, and automation while tailoring solutions to meet precise customer requirements with Microsoft Certified expertise.

Infosys

Areas of Focus: Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Cloud-Native Applications

Description: Infosys is an IT services company and managed service provider for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The company delivers applications, services, infrastructure, and more, working as a partner to help enterprises create a unified view of the enterprise cloud ecosystem. They advise clients on their transformation journey across every layer of the cloud, from initial adoption to long-term management. Infosys also provides support for migrating and modernizing legacy applications through a self-service cloud management portal.

Logicworks

Areas of Focus: Cloud Security, Data Regulation and Compliance

Description: Logicworks is a hybrid IT solutions vendor and managed service provider for AWS and Azure. The company provides infrastructure services for industries that have complex security and compliance requirements; in particular, it has a proficiency in tightly regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and retail. Logicworks helps clients in any step of their cloud journey, including migration, building, deployment, and ongoing management. The vendor also offers monitoring, patching, and 24×7 support from its certified engineers.

NTT Data

Areas of Focus: Cloud Advisory, Cloud Implementation

Description: NTT Data, a partially-owned subsidiary of the Japanese company NTT, is an IT services and managed cloud services provider for AWS and Azure. The company places a strong emphasis on helping customers migrate and modernize their applications onto the cloud, as well as helping to replace outdated client architectures with enterprise-grade cloud technologies. NTT Data also pulls experience from other NTT departments to offer other services, including enterprise networks, identity access management, and managed security.

Rackspace

Areas of Focus: Cloud Lifecycle Support, Multicloud Management

Description: Rackspace is a cloud security solutions vendor and managed cloud services provider for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The vendor offers management capabilities for public, private, hybrid, and multicloud deployments depending on the customer’s needs and current cloud solutions. While Rackspace has been around since 1999, the company has only been offering managed cloud services since 2015. Gartner positioned Rackspace as a Leader in their 2019 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services, Worldwide.

Smartronix

Areas of Focus: Cloud Automation, Incident Response

Description: Smartronix is an IT solutions vendor and managed service provider for AWS and Azure. Through the company’s cloud automation tools and incident response delivered through a unified management platform, Smartronix focuses on both cloud security and data compliance. The vendor can deliver its managed cloud services through either a traditional or DevOps approach, depending on the client’s needs and demands. Smartronix is an AWS Premier Partner, an Azure Gold Partner, and a Google Cloud Premier Partner.

Tata Consultancy Services

Areas of Focus: Cloud Application Transformation, Cloud Modernization

Description: Tata Consultancy Services is a global IT vendor and managed service provider for AWS and Azure. The company’s managed cloud services focus on app transformation and modernization. With reach in international markets and a focus on mid-size to large enterprises, TCS has experience working with enterprises of varying industries and backgrounds — including banking, media, insurance, and energy. In addition, Tata Consultancy Services has a variety of technology offerings that clients can use to supplement their managed cloud.

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TierPoint

Areas of Focus: Managed Hosting, Application Management

Description: TierPoint is an IT services and managed service provider for Microsoft Azure. The company offers a managed Azure solution that provides an integrated approach to planning and implementation, reducing the complexity of moving to the cloud. The vendor owns over 40 data centers within 20 markets and eight cloud pods, all connected via a coast-to-coast network. TierPoint’s solution portfolio includes private, managed hyperscale, and hybrid cloud environments, alongside network services and disaster recovery.

Trianz

Areas of Focus: Cloud Migration, Disaster Recovery, DevOps

Description: Trianz helps enterprises plan and adopt Azure’s hyperscale public cloud, enterprise-grade capability, and true private and hybrid cloud offerings. The vendor also leverages Microsoft products to create new imperatives for clients like Analytics, DB migration, DevOps, SharePoint/exchange, and DC migration. From strategy and roadmap development to architecture and implementation, Trianz assists companies to build secure, flexible, and scalable cloud-based solutions while meeting regulatory requirements.

Wipro

Areas of Focus: Cloud Application Optimization, Cloud Integration

Description: Wipro is an IT services company and managed service provider for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The company has years of experience creating apps for enterprises on major hyperscale cloud providers; since Wipro is familiar with each cloud, the vendor is equipped to help clients with migrating to and managing multi-cloud deployments. In addition to cloud, Wipro has significant experience in other forms of IT, such as analytics, consulting, and product engineering, making them able to take care of enterprise cloud needs from a variety of perspectives.