Everpure Cloud 101: Azure Native vs. Dedicated

# Overview Everpure Cloud is presented as two distinct deployment models rather than a single product. Confusing the two or choosing the wrong model for your team can cause friction during a rollout. This brief explains the differences, the trade-offs, and a practical way to pick which model to test first.

# Azure Native — who it's for and what it does Azure Native is the fully managed option that lives directly inside the Azure portal. It removes a separate console and reduces context switching for teams that already operate inside Azure's ecosystem.

• Fully managed: Everpure handles operational overhead.
• Native integration: Volumes appear in the Azure portal and behave like native Azure block storage.
• Trial: A 30-day free trial is available directly through the Azure Marketplace for quick, self-service testing.
• New capability: A dedicated Azure Native offering reached general availability in 2026 for attaching volumes straight to Azure VMs so they appear as standard native disks to Windows and Linux VMs.

• You trade some operational control and customization for simplicity and lower platform management burden. If your organization requires strict change control, specialized tuning, or multi-cloud parity, Azure Native may not meet those needs.

# Dedicated — who it's for and what it does Dedicated is the customer-managed variant and is available on both Azure and AWS. It targets teams that need more direct control over configuration and operations or that must operate consistently across major clouds.

• Customer-managed: You directly control configuration and operations.
• Cross-cloud: Available on Azure and AWS for consistent tooling across clouds.

• More control means more operational responsibility. Teams with limited staff or those trying to minimize the number of platforms they manage should weigh that overhead against the flexibility.

# A simple way to decide

1. 1Are you single-cloud (Azure only) or multi-cloud (Azure + AWS)? If multi-cloud, Dedicated is the default because Azure Native doesn't cover AWS.
2. 2Do you want a managed service or operational control? Choose based on your team's bandwidth and governance requirements.
3. 3How fast do you need to start testing? Azure Native's self-service 30-day Marketplace trial is the lowest-friction path for a quick proof of concept.

# Operational considerations to surface before committing

• Change control and governance: If your organization requires tight change windows or special operational processes, confirm whether a managed model fits those constraints.
• Cross-cloud policies: If you need identical behavior and tooling across Azure and AWS, that alignment is easier with Dedicated.

# What comes next The next technical topic to understand is the Unified Data Plane, the architecture both deployment models share. That layer is responsible for delivering consistent management across environments and will clarify how Everpure Cloud maintains parity between managed and customer-managed deployments.

# Bottom line