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Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets Reviews & Product Details

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) enable the creation and management of a group of load-balanced virtual machines (VMs) that can automatically scale in response to demand or a defined schedule. This service is designed to support large-scale applications, such as batch processing, big data, and container workloads, by allowing users to efficiently deploy and manage thousands of VMs with uniform configurations. Key Features and Functionality: - Automatic Scaling: VMSS can dynamically adjust the number of VM instances based on real-time demand or predefined schedules, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. - Load Balancing: Integrated with Azure Load Balancer and Azure Application Gateway, VMSS distributes incoming traffic across multiple VM instances, enhancing application availability and responsiveness. - High Availability: By distributing VM instances across availability zones or fault domains, VMSS increases application resiliency and uptime, offering service-level agreements (SLAs) of up to 99.99%. - Consistent Configuration: All VMs within a scale set are created from the same base OS image and configuration, ensuring uniformity and simplifying management tasks. - Flexible Orchestration: VMSS supports both uniform and flexible orchestration modes, allowing for greater control over individual VMs, including the ability to mix VM types and integrate Azure Spot Virtual Machines for cost optimization. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets address the challenges of managing large-scale applications by automating VM deployment, scaling, and management processes. This automation reduces the operational overhead associated with manual scaling and configuration, allowing organizations to respond swiftly to changing workloads. By ensuring high availability and distributing workloads effectively, VMSS enhances application performance and reliability. Additionally, the service's integration with Azure's networking and security features provides a comprehensive solution for deploying and managing scalable applications in the cloud.

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Vivek S.

Associate Quality Analyst

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/29/2025

"A perfect cloud computing platform"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

the hosting services like azure app services and the ability to train and deploy AI models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

the learning curev of azure is very steep and requires a lot of pre knowlede stuff also the pricing is a bit high and a complex UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paras B.

Senior Technical Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/14/2024

"Microsoft Azure is ultimately the most valueble cloud platform it todays market."

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

Microsoft Azure has the best user interface among all it's competetors. It is very easy to use and the understang. You can spin up a Virtual Machine in just 5 mins. Everything is UI based and you can what all is happening clearly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

I like everything about Microsoft Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/5/2024

"Azure a good Microsoft Cloud Provider"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

Basically it is the best cloud that blends with Windows. It has good virtualization feature and good feature for security and disaster recovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

Only the GUI needs to be more interactive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

harika b.

Cloud Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/17/2023

"Azure is so powerful and the best cloud on the market today"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

The Azure infrastructure and its services really stand out and support every business out there. The services we use on Azure are absolutely efficient and time-saving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

Azure is an absolute all-rounder with no disadvantages. Based on my personal and professional experience with Azure, while I had some issues with Azure, they were fixed in no time, which really impressed me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Azure for many purposes such as virtual machines and moving users and segmented products. For all our needs we use various Azure services which are extremely secure. For us, it's mostly useful to save time and reduce manual work, but from the customer's and Azure managers perspectives, it's useful in terms of cost and budget savings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Krishna J.

System Admin

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/2/2023

"Best cloud service!!"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

It's the ability to scale the servers on demand and we can store the data and create apps. There are almost endless services that Azure provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

The one thing I dislike about Azure is that sometimes it gets very slow while deployment. Other than that everything seems fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Orlando P.

IT Reporting & Analytics

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/11/2022

"Very useful tool from microsoft"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

What I love most about this tool is that it is quite useful since the platform is quite professional and requires good technical knowledge, its free use time is one year and you should only pay for it. They can have fairly controlled cost control. Processing overflow we can do when busy. Azure allows us quite easily to integrate security into workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

In my personal opinion we have not found any fault with this product since we love how easy it is to configure virtual machines in Azure and the power that we have when using Azure. The support is amazing and we can perform and complete many tasks when we need them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhinesh C.

Engr II-Software Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/26/2022

"Cost effective cloud service provider"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

Azure virtual machines has saved me a lot of money since it is based on a pay-as-you-go model and the features that Azure provides are amazing such as zero downtime and better security when compared to other cloud service providers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

There are no negatives till now I think all the services provided are really good and up to the mark of the industry and are solving a lot of problems for many companies around the world Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets:

Very cost-effective for all small, medium, and large-scale companies to manage their operations on the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was using an on-premises server before using Azure and recently migrated and deployed my applications to Azure with the help of virtual machines this has saved me a lot of money and a lot of manual effort in managing the servers which I had to do previously while using on-premises server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Investment Banking

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/8/2022

"Microsoft Device: Cloud computing Device"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

Microsoft Azure offers high availability in data centres on a global level. It has a high level of security paired with strong cybersecurity controls. It provides simple and user-friendly services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

Microsoft Azure requires expertise to ensure all moving parts work together efficiently. It is highly maintained and needs constant monitoring. It is expensive compared to other products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/1/2022

"Insights of Microsoft Azure!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

The best part of Microsoft Azure I like is its high accessibility to global skills. It has a strong focus on security. The application is secure, and the end user's data is protected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

Microsoft Azure needs to be managed and maintained expertly, which requires regular server monitoring. Azure requires expertise to function efficiently. It is expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Priyansh S.

Social media influencer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/19/2022

"Easy to understand"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

Azure provides me a platform to deploy my applications into real-time and lets me know the load and overall performance. I do not need to worry anything about the server and the hardwares. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

The free credit available for new users can be increased. Many other cloud competitors provide more than 200USD for each new user who joins their platform and migrate their applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.