WSO2 announced a collaboration with Microsoft to empower start-ups to develop cloud native applications on Microsoft Azure with Choreo, to strengthen the Indian start-up ecosystem. This effort brings Choreo, WSO2's innovative cloud native internal developer platform, to the forefront, offering startups in India complete access to cloud native app development resources, support, and technical expertise. 

Cloud native app development is quickly growing in popularity due to the benefits it provides, but setting up and running cloud infrastructure is complex. These complexities are a deterrent to startups who are keen to adopt the cloud but don’t have the development bandwidth to set up and run cloud infrastructure while also building digital products for their customers.  

This collaboration will provide the Indian start-up community with an invaluable toolkit to navigate the complexities of cloud native application development.  

It brings Choreo to help start-ups across India, helping them to break down the barriers to entry in the cloud native app development space. 

Choreo is built on top of Microsoft Azure, making it ideally suited for development teams that rely on the Azure cloud platform. Leveraging 30-plus Azure services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Key Vault, and Azure DevOps, it provides a pre-integrated development platform on Azure, thereby simplifying cloud native app development, increasing developer productivity, and enabling customers to get their digital products to market faster. 

“Choreo simplifies cloud native app development, offering developers and startups the essential tools and capabilities required to build and manage applications on Microsoft Azure, and significantly enhances developer productivity, accelerating the time to market for new products and solutions,” said Kanchana Wickremasinghe, vice president and general manager of the SaaS business unit at WSO2. “This will eventually lead to increased ROI and lower TCO.” 

Choreo is already available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, streamlining the procurement, deployment, and management of Choreo on the Azure cloud platform.  

According to a PwC India report, funding in Indian start-ups fell by 36 per cent in January-June 2023, primarily due to investors taking longer in due diligence processes. Early-stage deals accounted for 57 per cent of total funding in the first half of 2023. 

Founded in 2005, WSO2 enables thousands of enterprises, including hundreds of the world’s largest corporations, top universities, and governments, to drive their digital transformation journeys—executing more than 60 trillion transactions and managing over 1 billion identities annually.