Azure Maps is a suite of geospatial services from Microsoft that developers use to build location-aware web and mobile applications. The services provide maps (static images and vector tiles), search with geocoding and reverse geocoding, route planning for pedestrians, cyclists and commercial vehicles among others, and IP-based geolocation. Further services include traffic, weather, time zones and indoor maps. The services are consumed as APIs in the Azure cloud.
Azure Maps is provided by Microsoft Corporation, headquartered in the United States, with no separate parent company in another country. It is a global service in which you can choose a geographic scope: through the European endpoint (eu.atlas.microsoft.com) or the US endpoint, requests including input data are stored exclusively in that geography. Microsoft may replicate data within the same geography, and the choice does not restrict the locations from which customers or end users can access the data. For European organisations, the provider's US jurisdiction remains relevant even when data is stored in the EU.