Microsoft owns Azure and acquired GitHub in 2018.
Microsoft Azure is the company’s cloud-computing platform, providing computing, storage, databases, networking, analytics, artificial intelligence, and other services. It competes with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud in the global cloud market.
Microsoft announced its agreement to acquire GitHub in June 2018, and the deal closed later that year. GitHub remained a separate platform for hosting software code, managing development projects, and collaborating through version control. Its users include individual developers, open-source communities, and large organizations.
Azure and GitHub are related but not identical products. Azure supplies cloud infrastructure and services, while GitHub centers on software development collaboration. Microsoft’s ownership of both reflects its broader strategy of serving developers and enterprise technology customers.