Everpure Cloud 101: Azure Native vs. Dedicated
This is Post 2 in my Everpure Cloud series. If you missed the intro, Everpure Cloud – Part 1 of 6 to see where this is all headed.
Before you can evaluate whether Everpure Cloud fits your environment, you need to understand that “Everpure Cloud” isn’t one product — it’s two deployment models built for two different kinds of teams. Picking the wrong one, or not realizing there’s a choice to make, is the fastest way to end up frustrated three months into a rollout. Let’s break both down.
Everpure Cloud Azure Native
This is the fully managed option, and it lives directly inside the Azure portal — no separate console, no context-switching.
Who it’s for: Teams that want block storage to behave like a native Azure service. If your cloud team is already comfortable operating inside Azure’s ecosystem and doesn’t want to own another platform’s day-to-day management, this is your lane.
What stands out:
- Fully managed — Everpure handles the operational overhead
- Native integration into the Azure portal
- A 30-day free trial available directly through Azure Marketplace, so you can kick the tires without a procurement cycle
- New as of this year: a dedicated Azure Native offering for attaching volumes straight to Azure VMs, jointly engineered with Microsoft, reached general availability in 2026. Volumes show up to Windows and Linux VMs as standard native disks — no special drivers or extra tooling. We’ll go deeper on this in Post 4.
The trade-off: You’re trading some control for simplicity. If your organization has specific operational requirements that don’t fit a managed model — strict change control processes, specialized tuning, multi-cloud parity requirements — that’s where Dedicated comes in.
Everpure Cloud Dedicated
This is the customer-managed option, and critically, it’s available on both Azure and AWS — not just Azure.
Who it’s for: Teams that want (or need) more hands-on control of the storage layer, or that operate across both major clouds and want a consistent experience rather than juggling two different tools.
What stands out:
- Customer-managed, giving you direct control over configuration and operations
- Cross-cloud availability (Azure and AWS)
- Purchasable directly through an Everpure partner, or via the AWS and Azure Marketplaces
- Free trial options available for evaluation, though the process runs through a partner rather than a self-service portal
The trade-off: More control means more operational responsibility. If your team is lean or you’re trying to reduce the number of platforms you actively manage, that’s worth weighing against the flexibility you gain.
A simple way to decide
If I were advising a customer on this (which, let’s be honest, is basically what this whole series is), I’d ask three questions:
- Are you single-cloud (Azure only) or multi-cloud (Azure + AWS)? Multi-cloud pushes you toward Dedicated by default, since Azure Native doesn’t cover AWS.
- Do you want a managed service or operational control? This is the classic managed-vs-DIY trade-off that shows up in every infrastructure decision — pick based on your team’s bandwidth, not what sounds more impressive on a slide.
- How fast do you need to start testing? Azure Native’s self-service 30-day trial through the Marketplace is the lower-friction path if you just want to see it in action this week.
What’s next
In Post 3, we’re going under the hood to look at the architecture that both of these deployment models share: the Unified Data Plane. That’s the piece that actually delivers on the “consistent management across environments” promise — and it’s worth understanding before you commit to either flavor.
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