# Azure Compute Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Single Sign-On (SSO) Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/single-sign-on-sso) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About Azure Compute Azure compute is an on-demand computing service for running cloud-based applications. ## Azure Compute Reviews ### 1. Azure Compute **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** infant r. | Lead vmware admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** The very first thing i like about azure compute is it's easy to administer compared to it's competitor cloud , creation of virtual instance are so simple , it's scalable solution is amazing & east to configure. Any on-prem admin who want to learn cloud , they can easily learn Azure compute , as easy as microsoft windows **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** mostly the dislike which comes to my mind in security , azure is bit lacking in their security perspective when compared to other clouds...provision of GPU's in our preferred region is also difficult. **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** The major problem is security , we want a dedicated security team to investigate how our azure environment is protected. In case of any vm issue ,the diagnose page will give the solution for the same but it recommends it own tools , instead it can give a clear cut solution will be better. And also the monitoring is not granular , we need to dependent on prometheus or any other monitoring tool to get the granular data. We have integrated our prometheus & vrops tools to monitor azure . ### 2. Azure Compute--High usability, great customisation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kavya P. | Freelance Writer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** Launching a virtual machine only takes a couple of minutes. It also allows creating VMs with pre-built images and preset configurations Wide range of options to customise my VM as per my needs, in terms of instance types, networking and security. Allows switching to the classic UI, which in my terms is synchronous with ease of usability for the end-user. **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** Sometimes, the VM provisioning issue causes cluster failures in my data environment, and it takes a while to triage the root cause. One has to sieve through the VM logs to understand what went wrong. **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Azure VMs mainly for my big data applications to launch clusters in my data environment. I use the Azure VMs with a custom data script so that my VM loads with a pre-configuration of my web app/service ### 3. Azure Compute review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** Azure compute is the best in terms of services they provide, VM, kubernetes, containers, apps are the best and easy to use **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** The cost is a downside as some services are costing too much. **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** All customers use compute to solve their problems and host their infrastructure on azure ### 4. Azure Computing is best for hoisting the application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shweta k. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** The best part is, that it is providing hoisting services and low down our overload on the server. **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** It is helping us for easy data shipment, no cons. **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides a range of cloud services and storage space. ### 5. A really great cloud solution for the infrastruture as a service model **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** José Joaquín S. | Field System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** In azure compute, you can find several services that can meet your requirements; if you want to can choose products like virtual machines, azure functions, app services, etc. **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** One of the things that I don't like is when you choose an os like suse you have to pay for the support and the license. **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Azure virtual machines to host our QuickBooks system for managing our inventory, payroll, bank account, etc. also, having our system in the cloud becomes much cheaper than we expected. ### 6. Azure Compute is the real deal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brad V. | Database Admin, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** Easy to use, and scripting is fast and efficient. **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** The price is equal to the other major clouds, but I would like to see more discounts from time to time, especially for starters **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spinning up new envs and getting them out to users. ### 7. Best cloud servers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Milind S. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** Best in class servers with variety of hardware and os combinations. **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** Pricing is little more than competiter cloud providers. **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** Built and launched ecommerce services using compute resources. ### 8. Azure Compute service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai Kumar N. | Associate Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** Easy provisioning of compute instances with just a few clicks. The GUI is simple and easy. **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** The commands should be consistent for both bash and powershells. Using powershell after using bash for a long time is difficult as there is a chance of confusion between commands. **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefit is that we don't need to worry about the hardware maintenance. It saves time and cost. We can utilize this time for some productive activities. ### 9. Azure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** The algorithm is very efficient amongst other computer vision software that are available on the market- One important tool I normally use is computer vision part of it **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** The fact that the trial period is so short and the price is just not affordable to all people especially those in academic area who want to use it in their research **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** Research area are in need of the use of big data in order to solve critical problems in people's daily lives. one of the important use of computer vision is to feed it lots of images of small beings such as cells in order to figure out subtle differences amongst them ### 10. Azure Compute for VM and serverless function **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** 1. Has wide range of options: there are many configuration options like low CPU VM etc. 2. Has wide range of Azure serverless function trigger options like Http trigger, timer trigger etc. 3. Easy to setup 4. Good documentation for beginners. **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** 1. Cost is high at times for few of the configuration **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Serverless function: pay only we the service is being used. 2. Easy to set-up and understand the workflow of the Azure Compute services. 3. Help support: if there are any issues it get resolved with help of Azure Compute support team. ### 11. Azure for Tracking Delivery Fleet Vehicles **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** Azure Implementation Was simple and easy with well documented. We used for implementing IoT solutions for client **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** Cloud is a dynamic technology with changes every day, and with new capabilities added by the time, we delivered, causing an increase in cost for client **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a quick implementation and scalable infrastructure for IoT project azure fit the bill perfectly. ### 12. Good to have compute services in azure. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Compute?** Replica and services are good and working as expected. **What do you dislike about Azure Compute?** Downtime of azure services needs to be reduced. **What problems is Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many use cases can be done using compute resources. ## Azure Compute Discussions - [What is Azure Compute used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-azure-compute-used-for) - [View Azure Compute pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-compute/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+12%3A31%3A12+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d4e36fc0-21db-4074-8d9b-ab2cfa4eda4c&secure%5Btoken%5D=990cb874ad6c8f4189cb8a0c241f85592ac60c7c19c500f66f62c22e156e6bd9&format=llm_user) ## Azure Compute Features **Authentication Options** - Authentication User experience - Supports Required Authentication systems - Multi-Factor Authentication - Supports Required Authentication Methods/Protocols - Federation/SAML support (idp) - Federation/SAML support (sp) **User on/off Boarding** - Self Service Access requests - Smart/Automated Provisioning - Role Management - Policy Management - Access Termination - Approval Workflows **Access Control** - Role Management - Access Termination - Remote Access - Partner Access **Administration** - Policy, User, and Role Management - Approval Workflows - Automated Provisioning - Bulk Changes - Centralized Management - Self-Service Access Requests **Functionality** - Self-registration and self-service - Authentication - Scalability - Consent and preference management - Social login - Customer data linking **Access Control Types** - Endpoint access - Local Access - Remote Access - Partner Access - Supports BYOD users **User Maintenance** - Self Service Password Reset - Bulk Changes - Bi-directional Identity Synchronization **Administration** - Smart/Automated Provisioning - Policy Management - On-premise identity repositories supported - Ease of Connecting Applications **Functionality** - Multi-Factor Authentication - Single Sign-On - BYOD support - Password Vault - Centralized management - Role-based security - Live notifications - Live session recording & playback - Hide passwords - Temporary, time-limited privilege **AI Authentication Risk Management - Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)** - Adaptive MFA - Anomaly Detection - Fraudulent Login Detection - Adaptive Authentication Policies - Risk-Based Authentication **Administration** - Ease of installation on server - Password Policy Enforcement - Administration Console - Ease of connecting applications - Self Service Password Administration **Governance** - Identifies and Alerts for Threats - Compliance Audits **Functionality** - SSO - Multi-Factor Authentication - Supports Required Authentication systems **Monitoring** - Audit Logging - Activity Logging - Anomaly Detection **AI Biometric & Behavioral Analysis - Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)** - Behavioral Biometric Analysis - Liveness Detection **Platform** - Multiple Operating system support - Multi-Domain Support - Cross Browser support - Fail over protection - Reporting - Auditing - Third Party Web Services support **Administration** - Reporting - Mobile App - Ease of set up for target systems - APIs **Reporting** - Audit log - Reporting **AI Context-Aware Security Controls - Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)** - Account Recovery Assistants - Constraint Enforcement ## Top Azure Compute Alternatives - [Okta](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,196 reviews) - [JumpCloud](https://www.g2.com/products/jumpcloud/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,820 reviews) - [Rippling IT](https://www.g2.com/products/rippling-it/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (1,015 reviews)