The Yugabyte Platform has been expanded to be available across major cloud infrastructure providers, including Microsoft Azure. This allows developers to deploy and manage their applications in any cloud or across clouds, with the ability to choose from public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, and Azure), private cloud environments, and Kubernetes distributions. The platform simplifies deploying, monitoring, and managing YugabyteDB deployments on Azure, automating several operations such as instance orchestration, secure deployments, online software upgrades, scheduled backups, monitoring, and alerting. By using the Yugabyte Platform on Azure, developers can focus on building applications rather than managing database infrastructure, and enjoy cloud-native capabilities to quickly harness the power of YugabyteDB to build modern applications and deliver digital experiences that meet customer expectations. The platform is now available in beta release for the 2.3.3 release, with existing subscribers able to access it immediately, and new users can try it out through a free trial.