As part of its transition to cloud offering, EmpowerID has decoupled some of its features from the core platform, redesigning those features as microservices. This new architectural approach allows EmpowerID to use modern DevOps methodologies to deliver new production-ready features much more quickly. The topics in this section describe how to deploy EmpowerID microservices to Azure. To use these microservices in Azure, your organization needs to have an Azure subscription.