Azure Virtual Machines Reviews & Product Details

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) are scalable, on-demand computing resources provided by Microsoft Azure, enabling users to deploy and manage virtualized Windows and Linux servers in the cloud. These VMs support a wide range of workloads, from simple web applications to complex enterprise solutions, offering flexibility and control over computing resources without the need for physical hardware maintenance. Key Features and Functionality: - Diverse VM Series: Azure offers various VM series tailored to specific needs: - General Purpose (D-series, B-series): Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio, suitable for web servers and small to medium databases. - Compute Optimized (F-series): High CPU-to-memory ratio, ideal for CPU-intensive tasks like batch processing. - Memory Optimized (E-series): High memory-to-CPU ratio, designed for in-memory applications and large databases. - Storage Optimized (L-series): High disk throughput and IOPS, perfect for big data and data warehousing. - GPU-enabled (N-series): Equipped with GPUs for graphics-intensive and machine learning workloads. - Operating System Support: Azure VMs support a broad range of operating systems, including various distributions of Linux and all supported versions of Windows Server. - Scalability and Availability: Features like Virtual Machine Scale Sets allow for automatic scaling of applications, and Availability Sets ensure high availability by distributing VMs across multiple physical servers. - Integrated Security: Built-in security features include Azure Security Center for threat detection and response, and compliance with various industry standards. - Cost Management: Options like Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit help optimize costs, while Azure Spot Virtual Machines offer significant discounts for interruptible workloads. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Azure Virtual Machines offer businesses the ability to quickly deploy and manage scalable computing resources without the overhead of maintaining physical hardware. This flexibility allows organizations to respond rapidly to changing demands, optimize costs through various pricing options, and ensure high availability and security for their applications. By leveraging Azure VMs, users can focus on developing and running their applications while Azure handles the underlying infrastructure, leading to increased operational efficiency and agility.

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Microsoft

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Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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Google Compute Engine

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Average based on 393 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

3 months

Perceived Cost

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Sahil D.

Marketing and accounts consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2022

"Beginner friendly Cloud Computing and Storage Service"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

convenient billing structure, including management groups and subscriptions, which provide very detailed explanations on an hourly or daily basis of what Azure services have been charged and how much you have been charged, which makes invoicing within the organization a walk in the park. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The mandatory, modern authentication controls, such as conditional policy and Multi-factor authentication, can sometimes feel complicated to the end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloud-based Identity and Access Management solution called Azure active directory is the next best thing to provide authentication and authorization for all objects (Service Principles and devices). In addition, the ability to extend arm the on-prem Active Directory makes your life a lot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sandeep N.

Cloud Security Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/25/2022

"Configuring Azure VM are the best"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Arc Virtual machine- the best in creating VM in non-azure work place. Configuring Azure VM is easy and considering security in mind, their network configuration MS did a great job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Need recommendation while setting up size and MS defender recommendation and their remediation action should improve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prabhat N.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/7/2023

"It is very good solution for businesses."

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

It gives you the flexibility of virtualization without buying and maintaining the physical hardware that runs it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure users won't have offline access to the system in the event of the main system outage. No cloud service provider can really guarantee 100% security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zach F.

IT Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/4/2022

"Great Cloud Services Provider!"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

I really love Microsoft Azure because of its popularity. The popularity is great because there is much information on how to fix any problem you may encounter, this is great compared to smaller cloud service providers because they do not have as great online resources compared to Azure. Not to mention the great support from Microsft themselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

I do not like the pricing of some of the services compared to different cloud providers. For example, Azure charges for their bastion service whereas for example Oracle Cloud Infrastructure does not charge for their bastion service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PULKIT D.

Devops Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/16/2022

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"Good experience so far, needs verification daily for login that is the only hectic part."

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

High-end connectivity of the application, that allows staying in touch with the team despite of working from home is always an advantage over the other mediums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The application always requires phone verification to log in. It is good for security though but a hectic one for the initial start of the day. the process needed everytime I login to the device Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maharshi m.

manager, IT department, Cloud computing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/21/2022

"a super efficient cloud computing system"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure gives you the assurance of a super-efficient computer with enough storage for you to perform your duties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

IaaS (Azure) systems transport your company's processing capacity from your data center or office to the cloud, in contrast to SaaS platforms where the end-user is consuming information (for instance, Office 365). Azure requires specialized management and upkeep, including server monitoring and patching, just like the majority of cloud service providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a facility provider, we provide our clients with many facilities including software development and cloud computing, and Azure helps us take our client's business to the cloud for very efficient computing power which can be difficult to provide with in-office systems for a fair price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hasbi M.

Student

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/8/2023

"Cloud with BEST user experience"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Easy to deploy, provision, and monitor, and of course, great UI/UX Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

billing system sometimes hard to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anirudh J.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/8/2023

"Azure VMs, what sets them apart from other clouds"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Multiple Instance configs are available, this gives organizations a lot of choices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Fixed Storage incremental blocks makes it very inflexible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Spandan M.

Senior Lead Data Scientist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/9/2022

"Complete cloud requirements"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Easily deployable

High customisation

Easy integration with almost all data sources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Documentation part should be more step by step

More training materials Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Irayya M.

Co-Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/21/2022

"Best cloud service from Azure"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

I like almost all the features, simplicity and ease of use of the entire application. We are using SQL Server, using MySQL, Wordpress, other tool Microsoft tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The billing part and billing support response is very very bad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Great product, I have compared similar products, but azure has the most satisfying feature which help my business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

we are hosted our product on azure, which helps us to resolve our user load issue, we increase and decrease DTU whenever we want, its just in click, when can take time in data backup whenever we want Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.