Crypto Firms Join Azure as Microsoft Fights Amazon for Market Share

Microsoft in particular has been actively engaging with blockchain startups that are developing blockchain solutions for the enterprise market, working with them to deploy their solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.

The company's aggressive approach to bolstering the blockchain functionalities of Azure could be a move to take the lead in the blockchain cloud market, which should expand as the underlying blockchain industry continues to grow.

As of the time of writing, the Azure marketplace hosts 63 blockchain apps, while the Amazon Web Service marketplace hosts 60 blockchain apps.

Here's a closer look at some of the blockchain companies that have become part of the Microsoft Azure most recently.

InsolarMicrosoft recently agreed to collaborate with Insolar, a Switzerland-based startup that builds blockchain solutions for the enterprise market, to bring an additional option to Azure clients that are looking to deploy blockchain applications.

KadenaOn Aug. 27, U.S. based blockchain startup Kadena launched its enterprise blockchain on the Azure Marketplace.

Kadena's head of marketing, Tony Pham, told Cointelegraph that offering Kadena's blockchain solutions on Azure means that businesses can easily implement its blockchain alongside other enterprise systems.

NahmiiEthereum-based second-layer blockchain scaling platform, Nahmii, also partnered with Microsoft in September 2019 to offer its solutions on the Azure cloud.

"Our partnership with Microsoft is unique from the point of view that nahmii is unique; it is the only commercially ready scaling and interoperability protocol in the blockchain industry today. That alone implies that nahmii can be used - at scale - by Microsoft corporate customers to build any solution on the blockchain."

The expansion of blockchain-as-a-service platforms like Azure and AWS could be just as important to the rapid adoption of blockchain.