There are two primary ways to deploy Clickhouse on Azure:

1. ClickHouse Cloud (Managed): sign up directly at clickhouse.cloud or via the Azure Marketplace.

2. Self-Hosted (VMs or Kubernetes): if you need more control over the environment

  • Deploying on Azure VMs (using the Ev5 or Dv5 series for high memory/compute).
  • Kubernetes (AKS): Using the ClickHouse Operator for Kubernetes to manage clusters on Azure Kubernetes Service.
  • Storage: Typically use s a combination of Azure Premium SSDs for "hot" data and Azure Blob Storage (via the S3 or AzureBlobStorage disk types) for "cold" data tiering.


What are the benefits of hosting your Clickhouse on Azure cloud?

1. The "Microsoft Ecosystem" Synergy: when your data stack already involves Power BI, Azure Event Hubs, or Azure Data Factory, Azure-native ClickHouse deployments often see lower latency when connecting to Power BI. For an enterprise deeply integrated with Active Directory and Microsoft 365, Azure provides a level of administrative and financial "fluidity" the others can't match.


2. MACC Eligibility: If your company has a pre-paid Azure commitment (MACC), you can essentially pay for ClickHouse using money you’ve already "spent" or committed to Microsoft. 


3. Performance & Storage Cost: Benchmarks (like ClickBench) show that Azure's latest VM families and Premium SSD v2 offer a very competitive price-to-performance ratio for columnar workloads.

ClickHouse has native support for the azureBlobStorage table function, allowing you to query data directly from Azure containers without importing it