--- title: Azure Sphere Reviews meta_title: 'Azure Sphere Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 23 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Azure Sphere works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 23 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-04' parent_category: name: System Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/system-security --- # Azure Sphere Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [IoT Security Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-security-solutions) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 23 ## About Azure Sphere Azure Sphere is a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller (MCU) devices. It provides a foundation of security and connectivity that allows you to create the intelligent products and experiences that customers love—and get them to market quickly—at a price point that enables the Internet of Things (IoT) at scale. ## Azure Sphere Reviews ### 1. IOT for Business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shekh A. | Information Technology Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** Azure Sphere has surely made things easy for managing IOT Devices, be it the configuration, the easy of making you devices secure that is already implemented, having control over it. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** The configuration is pain when it comes to azure Sphere since MICROSOFT is new into this domain,so it's fine but there are a few other competitors who are making things easy **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure Sphere has helped us in many ways monitoring, protecting, securing the IOT Devices present in the office space. The cloud to cloud feature is something an enterprise looks into. ### 2. Great Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** What I really like about Azure Sphere is how it keeps things safe. It has strong security features that protect devices connected to the internet, which is great for keeping everything secure and safe from hackers. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** One downside of Azure Sphere is that it can be a bit complex to set up and use, especially for beginners. Getting everything configured correctly and understanding all the features can take some time and effort. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure Sphere makes sure IoT devices are safe from hackers and connects them easily. This means I can trust my devices and it's simpler to build and manage them. ### 3. The new IoT Security In charge **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanya R. | Operations Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** The Azure Sphere has been an awesome service in protecting the connections between cloud and web . It is easy implement. The customer support as usual is best from Microsoft ends. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** I find that timely updates are not being released by Microsoft. Moreover integration seems quite tricky. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has decreased our IoT Security handling cost and making teams for effective and developing the standards. ### 4. Review on Azure Sphere **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Babulnath M. | Sr. Publisher Expertise- IBM & HCL , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** Integration,Scalability and Cost-Effective **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** technology Expertise and Requires Management **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to maintain IoT - connected devices in the field securely and remotely. Protection against various types of security threats such as spoofing, rogue software, and denial of service attacks ### 5. Review of Sheeza Hafeez on Azure sphere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sheeza H. | Associate-Projects, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** It's user usibility and security and maintenance **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** I ahve not found any issue.Nothing as of now **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps our platform with integrated communication and security ### 6. Useful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subhadip N. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** I like the cloud Security of the Azure Sphere **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** Nothing to dislike about the Azure Sphere **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** To connected devices ### 7. Azure Sphere Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** It is a safety and security product package. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** It is more suitable for professionals. Beginners may struggle a bit. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detection and reporting of problems, secure authentication of certificates. ### 8. A smart solution package! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** It is a suite of security and safety. One stop shop. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** Not meant for beginners. Newbies need time to get use to this **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting or Flagging of failures Certificate based authentication ensures higher level of security. ### 9. Azure speher the perfect network security solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vibhor S. | Corporate Trainer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** It has been perfectly defined for network security. Can be utilised for all networking solutions **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** Nothing can be dislike about these services. Excellent service **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Networking security issues ### 10. Azure Sphere - Secure IoT and Edge devices **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** Easy setup and installation guide. Also, documentation available online. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** Sometimes delayed monitoring signals are not acceptable **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security on IoT and Edge devices using Cloud based OS and secure system ### 11. Tool that can Create, monitor, Maintain, Update all Internet connected devices. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradeep F. | L2 System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** Very simple easy operating system. best is High-level security for a low price point. for each security leak and threat, we can get multiple layers of security and thus multiple mitigations. it contains all the things needed for a Computer Science Engineer. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** First, I have to say that controlling is a bit more difficult. Need lots of IT knowledge. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Sphere:** A Fantastic product for the Engineering field so a good option for Cloud Management also. 100% recommend to those who are willing to test this product and need high-tech skills to use this. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use for foreign object detection in packaging facilities. using on multiple devices. ### 12. this is big revolution for the devices we have every where **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stavros C. | IT Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** you can control every in one device in your home,hotel etc **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** i didn't like the weak password that you need to add **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** you can control the system from everywhere in the world ### 13. Azure Sphere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** The best part of Azure Sphere is that the security we get from it, and it is safe to install on Linux and it's a Microsoft product **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** I feel that most of the portions of azure sphere are open source, but some of them need the license. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Azure sphere to solve loot of problems related to IoT. Implemented some machine learning proectss with the help of Azure. ### 14. high-level application platform with built-in communication and security **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parvez Q. | System Enigneer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** 1. High-value security at a low cost, so that price-sensitive, microcontroller-powered devices can safely and reliably connect to the internet. 2. A hardware-based root of trust ensures that the device and its identity cannot be separated, thus preventing device forgery or spoofing. 3. Defense in depth provides for multiple layers of security and thus multiple mitigations against each threat. 4. Errors in device software or hardware are typical in emerging security attacks; errors that result in device failure constitute a denial-of-service attack. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** 1. It is difficult to learn for beginners. 2. If someone is new to this field, it will be a little difficult for them to get it all at once, but the progress will be present and there will be new things all the time. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** working on the solution provided By Azure for Iot ### 15. Azure sphere everyday **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen M. | DevOps and Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** Easy to use Operating systems and high-level applications. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** Service is very complex to use every day. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Sphere:** It's a fantastic product. The hardware architecture provides security for the connected devices, allows us to focus on our development. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure Sphere provides high-level security to microcontroller-powered devices. Easy to use across multiple operating systems. ### 16. Technical Leap far from any other controller **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vadiraja T. | Project Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** 1. The kind of security has been given to the controller at such a less price is really stunning. 2. Can be used as controller, a processor and electronic device for smart processing - which makes me think that this may be the most versatile thing you can have in your electronic collection. 3. The OS which has been given as the functioning aspect of this product made me go crazy since the applications are limitless. 4. The cloud communication, database access and its speed is always at a consistent rate which is really useful in long drive applications. 5. The built-in IoT has really helped me a lot since it has been absent in such low range controllers and the possibility of it will make this a lot costlier. But these guys did it. The product is perfect for any application with the better insight on it and have the great way of dealing with other aspects like physical conditions too. 6. I never even once observed any heating up in the controller sphere which is a lot good since I use high end long running ML and IoT algorithms which made this a lot useful for me. 7. Overall. its a good package which contains all of the things which an Electronics or Computer Science Engineer like me will look in a device which is capable of much more than what it looks like. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** 1. The biggest thing I dislike is this will be a complicated thing to learn for beginners. But the great thing is the help provided by them are detailed and super easy to understand. 2. If someone is new to this field, it will be a little difficult for them to get it all at once, but the progress will be present and there will be new things all the time. 3. The process of security is good, but there should be a new interface which let us to disable those for educational purposes of a new guy. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Sphere:** Its the best one - not to learn, but to excel at. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** There were so many projects run by me in this device and its super smooth without any glitches. Started with blinking LED for the automatic time synchronization, all the way to the foreign object detection in packaging facilities. This has always helped me a lot, and if its a industrial friendly version - I would be really happy to suggest it to everybody rather than small project guys. ### 17. Customer friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** Easy to use and price. Very competitive in comparison with other tools **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** Is not that customizable? It could be more API friendly architecture **Recommendations to others considering Azure Sphere:** A very good option for VM, Cloud management **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good for Private cloud and Cloudstack because of its great gateways ### 18. Azure Sphere Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Syedazarudeen A. | Digital Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** Best thing is built-in communication and security features provided from AS **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** Confusing VM size name and poor client Inti support **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** For people like me managing via code is essential. CLI tool for doing it with Azure is pretty good. It’s good I don’t have to learn Powershell and I can use my good, old bash for interacting with it. ### 19. Azure Sphere Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anjan N. | Azure Devops Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** Azure Sphere certified microcontrollers (MCUs) which combines both real-time and application processors with built-in Microsoft security technology and connectivity. Also the Azure Sphere Security Service which guards every Azure Sphere device and brokering trust for device-to-device and device-to-cloud communication through certificate-based authentication. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** A threat still prevails as from the IoT side of things as I will be able to connect every single device in an enterprise or every single device in a home to the internet, there’s real risk associated with it . **Recommendations to others considering Azure Sphere:** It can simplify our daily needs and use of appliances would be easy and accesseble. Also one of the key features of the Azure Sphere platform is its secure application deployment service. Each Azure Sphere device has its own unique ID that's stored on the device. We have to register each device you have as part of a product, with its own ID that's managed through the cloud service. And Azure Sphere OS adds layers of protection and ongoing security updates to create a trustworthy platform for new IoT experiences. Passwords can be the weakest link in many security systems so microsoft implemented Certificate-based authentication which eliminates the need for passwords to manage a device.Using Azure sphere Applications are assigned to device groups and automatically deployed, so you can build the deployment process into an existing software development lifecycle, using separate software branches for development and test, with final deployment triggered by a merge to a separate production branch. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure Sphere’s software delivery model and Visual Studio development tools deliver productivity and dramatically optimize the process of developing and maintaining apps on their devices. We can use all Iot based applicaion and can manage them also from a single console. ### 20. Azure Better Than Active Directory **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge V. | System Admin, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** Azure allows you to have a Cloud Based Active Directory with minimal setup. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** I could not use Azure AD authentication on Meraki WiFi. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure AD allows control over what PC users have access to on their Windows 10 machines. ### 21. Testing what Microsoft has for IoT protection in companies. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M.Sc. Jonathan S. | Maintenance Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** One of the things that stands out the most about this package that Microsoft offers is that it is made up of 3 items (which cannot be obtained separately) that together make up an apparently reliable solution to increase security in the management of companies' IoT . It also highlights the fact that the OS was based on Linux Kernel (That's right, based on what in the market we sometimes consider as its own competition) while making it easily adaptable to devices and having extra layers of protection. . In general lines, the conjunction of both the Sphere operating system, the microprocessor and the Sphere security system, is outlined as a very complete triangulation to provide a solid system that is very secure and includes threats to the goods and electronic devices subject to the IoT framework. of companies **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** Since it was implemented it has not presented any major inconvenience. Although it is strange that this system is not supported with its W10 IoT operating system, which in the worst case may be worrying that later Microsoft does what it sometimes does with some of its products: stop providing support or discontinue it, just as it has with its mobile devices and Windows Mobile itself. It is also not a good sign that you have not used your W10 IoT for this tool. It remains to wait in time. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Until now, the Engineering department has joined the Technology Department of the company, implementing and developing equipment and devices for the optimization of processes regarding the supervision and maintenance of equipment used in cementing and evaluating wells. We are currently making very important decisions to apply technological advance changes to much of our processes, and the implementation of Azure Sphere has allowed us to advance in this area and at the same time "embed" a high number... ### 22. Get yourself a highly secured connection for internet. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jazlyn S. | Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** I just love using this cloud platform because it helps me in creating secure internet connection that gains my customer satisfaction just according to the desired products and this helps me to expand my business significantly and quite quickly. It is quite efficient in managing IOT functions and is easily accessible from Azure cloud. **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** I find that the preview of the software very very clustered and quite congested because of a lot of different features that are sometimes so overwhelming. The security updates comes quite frequently and it is hard to keep up with them. I would really appreciate if connection over the cellular network could be a part of the software and should be supported on Mac platform. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Sphere:** I would highly recommend it. **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quite efficient and provide multiple layers of protection against different advanced threats for my devices. Azure provides me with great deployment flexibility and security for my existing equipment it is very helpful to keep me aware of different sites by reporting errors and security updates. ### 23. Secure iot **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Sphere?** That it is a cloud service. And there would be support from cloud communities **What do you dislike about Azure Sphere?** The OS security updates. It is a hassle to keep updated **What problems is Azure Sphere solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connected devices for productivity ## Azure Sphere Discussions - [What is the hardware architecture of Azure Sphere?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/51033-what-is-the-hardware-architecture-of-azure-sphere) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Azure Sphere pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-sphere/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-28+20%3A30%3A22+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6c6cbbb4-47ff-4c46-8708-c9e702ebf3b0&secure%5Btoken%5D=543a09f867d5deff6969697b4b5b1eeb88c9d396113c52f3bb92a8eed92af2b9&format=llm_user) ## Azure Sphere Features **Connected Device Security** - Vulnerability Assessment - Identity Lifecycle - Threat Protection - Behavior Analysis - Incident Response - IoT Network Security - OTA Updates - Alerts & Notifications **Platform** - Dashboard - Hardware - Performance - Reporting ## Top Azure Sphere Alternatives - [Google Cloud IoT Core](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-iot-core/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (29 reviews) - [AWS IoT Device Defender](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-iot-device-defender/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (56 reviews) - [Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security](https://www.g2.com/products/palo-alto-networks-iot-ot-security/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (118 reviews)