SharePoint Server on Microsoft Azure

To get the productivity and collaboration benefits of SharePoint on azure development, Microsoft recommends SharePoint in Microsoft 365. If SharePoint in Microsoft 365 isn't the best option at this time, you can deploy SharePoint Server 2016 on intranet servers, which can be in the data center on-premises or hosted on Microsoft Azure infrastructure services. Whether it's for development, testing, staging, production, or disaster recovery, Azure is the ideal location for your SharePoint cloud farms.

These are some of the advantages:

You can quickly deploy a SharePoint Server farm and scale it up or down as needed.

You can quickly create the infrastructure for SharePoint servers using various tools and methods. Set up development or test farms, or add more resources to scale production SharePoint deployments. Simplify deployment and configuration with ready-to-deploy images and reduce the time it takes to deploy complex SharePoint farms from days to hours.

You can host SharePoint Server farm cost-effectively.

Azure pay-as-you-go pricing for server and storage capacity and per-minute billing will help you save money. When performing application or performance tests, you can create additional servers as needed to scale and load test them in short periods of time and remove them when you're done. Using and paying only for the resources you need (and nothing else) helps you reduce costs.

Easily move virtual machines between your on-premises environment and Azure.

A virtual machine in Azure running Windows or SQL Server is no different than a server running in an on-premises data center. You can easily move virtual machines between on-premises physical servers or servers at your hosting provider and Azure to:

• Quickly and easily replicate SharePoint Server dev/test environments or secondary production sites to Azure.
• When necessary, you can move them back to the local environment.

You can run Microsoft applications where they perform best.

Choosing Azure to host SharePoint Server farms is a safe bet on the cloud created by the same company that created SharePoint and SQL Server. These applications have been extensively tested to ensure that they work properly in Azure. Use your existing licenses with License Mobility and Azure Hybrid Use benefits, and get first-class direct support across Azure, SharePoint, and SQL Server. Running SharePoint Server farms in Azure ensures that the solution runs on the same cloud framework that hosts Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Design and planning

To design the elements of Azure infrastructure services to host a custom development and test environment, production farm, or disaster recovery farm, see Design a SharePoint Server farm in Azure 

Implementation

See Deploying SharePoint Server with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups in Azure for step-by-step instructions on how to build this highly available  with Microsoft  365 services USA  intranet production farm in Azure.