# Azure Container Instances Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Container Orchestration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-orchestration) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 20 ## About Azure Container Instances Azure Container Instances makes it easy to create and manage Docker containers in Azure, without having to provision virtual machines or adopt a higher-level service. ## Azure Container Instances Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users benefit from the **cost savings and ease of deployment** when utilizing Azure Container Instances for container management. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **excellent customer support** for Azure Container Instances, noting swift responses and helpful documentation. (2 reviews) - Users find the **ease of use** with Azure Container Instances exceptional, simplifying deployment and management of containers. (2 reviews) - Users find **implementation and management easy** with Azure Container Instances, appreciating its serverless and automated features. (2 reviews) - Users value the **high scalability** of Azure Container Instances, enabling seamless growth and management of applications. (2 reviews) - Tools (2 reviews) - Cloud Services (1 reviews) - Cloud Storage (1 reviews) - Cost Saving (1 reviews) - Documentation (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Azure Container Instances to be **comparatively expensive** , particularly affecting small businesses and startups financially. (2 reviews) - Users find **limited customization** in Azure Container Instances compared to other solutions, impacting flexibility and control. (2 reviews) - Users find the **limited features** of Azure Container Instances restrict customization compared to other container management solutions. (1 reviews) - Users find the **lack of intuitiveness** in Azure Container Instances makes it difficult to understand resource relationships. (1 reviews) - Users find **poor documentation** for Azure Container Instances, particularly needing improvement for the Go language API. (1 reviews) - Slow Performance (1 reviews) - Storage Limitations (1 reviews) - Update Issues (1 reviews) ## Azure Container Instances Reviews ### 1. Azure Container Services use cases **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi Shankar s. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** Azure Container Instances: With Azure container instances, we dont have to manage the underlying infrastructure for our application (serverless architecture) and usinf azure cli we can deploy our docker container and make it available withe DNS name. We can deploy our container instance thorugh various means such as using azure cli, powershell, ARM (Azure Resource Manager) template, terraform and using docker cli. Web App for Containers: This is very useful to just pull our application container images either from Docker hub or private azure container registry and deploy it in seconds. This functionality automatically takes care of load balancing, OS patching and capacity provisioning. There are much more container services available such as azure kubernetes service - to deploy and scale containers on managed kubernetes, azure redhat openshift- to deploy and scale containers on managed red hat openshift. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** It could be a financial burden for small businesses or startups as it incurs high costs when an azure container instances runs 24/7 compared to running a virtual machine instance. Also it lacks some features such as less customization options compared to other container management solutions like docker and kubernetes. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps for our microservice architecture applications by managing and orchestrating a containerized applications using azure kubernetes services by leveraging other azure resources such as load balancers whenever we create a load balancer service in aks cluster. We dont have to separately create a load balancer for our use cases. ### 2. Azure container experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu V. | Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** With the help of container we can save costs by taking up and moving existing applications to containers, and build microservices applications to deliver value faster. By using end-to-end developement and CI/CD tools to develop, update, and deploy containerized applications can also manage containers at scale with a fully managed Kubernetes container management and orchestration service that integrates with Azure Active Directory. No matter what where in your app modernization journey, accelerate containerized application development while meeting security requirements. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** Its is comparatively expensive than other services its value for money can be increased. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to move my application to one place to another it allows to have my application multiple platforms and mobility and ease to use and increasing efficiency. ### 3. Microsoft Azure Containers - High Availability and Scalable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chetan A. | Information Technology Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** 1. It is easy to implement and manage. 2. High Availability and Scalable 3. Inter communication between container and ingergratiom is easy. 4. Easy to upgrade and customer support available **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** There are frequent updates come for AKS cluster and containers upgrade and with upgrades containers memory and resource consumptions also increases. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help in development of web based applications which involves micro services based architecture. ### 4. Best and Simple **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** suraj r. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** Latest products and especially AKS microservices **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** Might be slow in updating resources like nsg **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud solutions and microservices ### 5. Good UI,ample resources and cost effective **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niranjan S. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** I like that the documentation is well-made for most languages. It has been easy to use since the day I started. I like that the support team is well-trained for most scenarios and gives swift responses. I also like that they arrange calls if you have a complicated issue. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** I think their documentation for the Go language needs to be significantly improved. API documentation for Go has syntax errors in them. Too much customisation and options for doing the same thing sometimes gets confusing. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** The resource limit problem has been solved as I use ample resources in Azure. Also, basic functionalities like email sending limit are the required amount. Databases rarely experience downtime. ### 6. My experience using Azure for the first time after I got the Github Student Developer pack **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 19_1268 Kausheeki M. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** After getting the Student Developer pack from Github and then signing on to Azure as a student only, I got a lot of benefits, like a $100 credit for the first 12 months plus select free services. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** While signing up or signing in, I faced problems despite entering valid credentials; authentications failed and declared the login to be a bad request and then after a few more attempts after signing in to GitHub first and then successfully being able to login to the Azure portal. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft Azure helps lower migration costs once you qualify for Azure free credit and accelerate your cloud journey with the right mix of guidance, resources and expert help. ### 7. Azure is everywhere you need it, when you need it **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael M. | Program Manager, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** Microsoft Azure outpaces Google Cloud and Amazon AWS in its market reach, making it a better choice for low latency locally deployed resources. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** As with many things Microsoft, intuitiveness is lacking in how different resources relate to each other. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** In-country connectivity. ### 8. Azure cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** It has all the functions, it has the best machine learning service platform. We can easily deploy our models. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** Documentation are not clear. Face difficulties in understanding a service. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are making a product on it. ### 9. Super easy to use! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel J. | Head of IT/Comms/QA, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** Azure Container Instances allows you to instantly create a secure container for development use - without the need for virtual machines. This allows you to run any instances that can operate in isolated containers. These have many advantages over standard virtual machines. Positives: - Much faster to start than virtual machines - Minimal provisioning/management needed compared to virtual machines - Security - isolated to a hypervisor level **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** - Running a constant 24 hours a day instance on the platform is much more expensive than running a virtual machine instance 24/7 - User interface isn't always the most intuitive - relatively new service so some sub-context menus aren't quite logical yet However, this is a great service and I think that the positives outweigh the negatives, especially with MS Azure's superb customer/client relations team. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:** Have a play around with the software before getting specialist help from Azure. This is the best way you can gain experience from ACI since different users may have different use cases depending. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying a container is SO much faster than deploying a virtual machine. This significantly reduces downtime since virtual machine often require a lot of management from the admin side. This saves time and business cost. However bear in mind that containers are more expensive to run (generally) than their virtual machine usage equivalents so whilst you may be saving time and money in some areas containers generally cost more, particularly when you are running them 24 hours a day. ### 10. Good performance but quite expensive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** I can use the portal to create a container, no need to worry about provisioning virtual machines to host the container or installing software. Instances can be created with a single-line PowerShell command and will be up-and-running in minutes. Azure Container Instances also support container groups. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** Not yet possible to attach them to an Azure virtual network. Running an instance 24/7 will be more expensive than running a virtual machine of the same size. More expensive than Amazon Container Service, which has been the most popular. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:** Azure Container Instances is a relatively new service and does still have some limitations. I have not seen any feature of Azure Container Instances that Amazon Container Service does not have. However, it is definitely a good option. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** I tried to use Azure Container Instances to run a large database system. It has high performance. ### 11. Azure is very hard to understand and **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brenda U. | Owner, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** To be honest I liked the fact that they reached out to me to see if I needed help but... **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** When I responded to the e-mail reaching out for help they never responded back **Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:** Only go into it if you know what you're doing **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is nothing I was able to solve as they never got back to me to help me get started ### 12. Great tool for container orchestration **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** What I like best is that its container orchestration solution that best suits my needs. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** The only thing I dislike is the possible privacy issues since it is a public cloud without having provision to manage. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is most helpful because it is cloud based for companies and manages a service on its own. ### 13. easy to run applications with hypervisor isolation on Azure without managing servers!!! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mihir p. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** Because of Azure Container Instances (ACI), you can focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them,we can use it for data processing where source data is ingested, processed and placed in a durable store such as Azure Blob storage!! **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** the containers are so much automated they should left some task customize able , so it's not user friendly!! **Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:** It's best platform for any beginner because you can develop apps fast without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools!! **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** we mainly use it for our data-processing application and for Event-driven applications !!! ### 14. Azure container instances review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** Pretty easy to use, has lot of features and merges really well into existing infrastructure. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** Its good but definitely missing robustness and features we see in Docket or Kubernetes **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementing container services. Its available as a service so thats the biggest benefit ### 15. So easy for students **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** I love how accessible and widely used it is in school settings and work settings. I can get almost everything done here **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** Sometimes slow but other than that I don’t have much I disagree with **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** Miscommunication, document use ### 16. Azure Container Instances **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** Azure offers a very flexible service for managing containers without having to worry about managing VMs. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** It is a new service but as with all Microsoft products it will develop quickly and offer new features faster than you can learn how to use them. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:** You can certainly look at other services but with Microsoft's dedication to Azure and their cloud services they are constantly adding new features. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing scalable app services without having to manage VMs or servers. Benefits include reduced downtime and lower admin costs. ### 17. Easy to use container hosting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sima I. | Frontend Developer, Airlines/Aviation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** I love the idea of ACI for our variable container workloads and use it in a few projects already!) single command and it's working! **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** API functionality isn't enough for me and documentation not always correct. Usually I prefer to use web panel to manage my containers. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:** They have great support, use it if needed) **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cinux containers hosting ### 18. Containers on demand **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rafał P. | System Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** The Azure Container Instances service provides fast and isolated computing resources that can be used in the event of traffic increases **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** I think that Microsoft can improve the quality of technical support. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data processing tasks. ### 19. Elasticity at it`s finest **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zlatko A. | Skype for Business/Lync SME, Windows Server SME, AudioCodes SME, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** Incredibly easy and fast container deployment **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** Technical documentation is still scarce **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** Smaller administrative footprint ### 20. Easily develop and run applications in Docker containers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?** It provides a simple way to create and to manage clusters of virtual machines. **What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?** There is nothing I dislike about Azure container instances. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:** It provides continuous integration and deployment. **What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Azure container services to manage the application on a group of servers. - [View Azure Container Instances pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-container-instances/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-26+18%3A09%3A54+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0e29c91c-1760-488d-b705-5fb7f1648e5a&secure%5Btoken%5D=46e3456f53e0c9fc19f2b217b66eafe33fe594deca89476b4f98e37fd0d5d532&format=llm_user) ## Azure Container Instances Features **Management** - Access Control - Network Isolation - File Isolation **Organization** - Packaging - Container Networking - Orchestration **Development** - Developer Toolkit - Architecture - Datacenter - Virtualization ## Top Azure Container Instances Alternatives - [Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (248 reviews) - [Red Hat OpenShift](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-red-hat-openshift/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (288 reviews) - [AWS Fargate](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-fargate/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (92 reviews)