Windows Server Azure Edition is a special version of Windows Server built specifically to run either as an Azure IaaS Virtual Machine (VM) in Azure or as a VM on an Azure Stack HCI cluster.

Azure, which strongly focuses on enterprise solutions, prioritizes integration with Microsoft's existing ecosystem, including Active Directory, the .NET framework, and SQL Server. This focus ...

With hotpatching, we are taking what was previously an Azure-only capability and now making it available to Windows Server machines outside of Azure through Azure Arc," Microsoft said.