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

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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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User Insights

Average based on 393 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

3 months

Perceived Cost

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Kunal A.

Web Designer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/22/2022

"Improved processing speed and low cost of ownership"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Microsoft azures cloud platform keeps information safe and available even in any disaster. In addition do processing more data faster apps on azure platform are build on fully distributed cache with build in storage scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

It takes more time on startup, before our Virtual Machine ready. If we have many images on cloud then it will take a long time to load images. For eg. If we have windows server 2008 image and OS is not familier with IPv6 we will have problem in configuring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Azures intigrated cloud resorces are secured and very easy to personlize for each organizations unique requirments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As a deployment engineer we prefered data security which is being handled by microsoft azure very effectivly and it security model which is detect assess diagnose stabilies and close. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Farrukh K.

Software Engineer/Evaluation Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/18/2022

"Experience Based on usage"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

It has been good, documentations are good , they have plenty of tutorials and stuff available on the internet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

I guess so far so good. Definitely more tutorials would help us alot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

More practical tutorials Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have been using virtual machines aggressively , super easy to deploy and super good with performance .

Can create my dev environments in just 20 mint and start working on the development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tran P.

Cloud System Administrator

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/4/2022

"Azure Virtual Machine - a basis for Microsoft cloud infrastructures"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

- Easy to set up and running: answering a few wizard questions and the Azure portal will do the provisioning for you. It has a variations of choices for operating platform and compute performance

- It can also be deployed automatically using Azure powershell modules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

- The lack of the virtual machine console access. It would struggle the troubleshooting, especially if you do a migration of an on-premise virtual machine to Azure. If you make a mistake in network configuration, you would lock yourself out of access to that virtual machine and have to do the whole process of converting, exporting, uploading and recreating new Azure VM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/28/2022

"While the product is great I still feel it lacks in performance and community help."

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

The robust plans that it offers. Azure storage has the best ductile, safe, secure and performance - efficient storage services in the cloud. It is very simple to change the settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The VM size names are very confusing. Terraform support is also something that lags a lot. It doesn't work as smoothly as it does with AWS. Premium storage grouping making it just a cheap marketing tactic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

I would say if AWS is out of your budget then you should definitely consider going for Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As a data engineering expert in my previous organisation my day to day task involved handling large amount of data through different channels which used to come in real time. The only possible and efficient way to process this data would be by using Azure Cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Praveen S.

Full-Stack Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/17/2022

"Yes I have used it personally and its amazing."

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

It's seemingly a working experience, without being down. VM is working wonderful, Azure virtual machines, Azure SQL Database, and other tools of Azure are really amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

I don't dislike any of the tools in the azure as such, all are working perfectly fine without any issue. I face issue setuping up azure functions but I don't think it made me dislike it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Surjithkumar M.

PHP Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/1/2022

"Microsoft Azure for cloud engineer"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Microsoft azure provides lots of servies in cloud environment. I like the cloud services and serverless services in it. It provides best services comparing others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Dislikes in microsoft azure gives less amount of learning stuffs using documentation and resource sortages. lack of GUI issues and lack of speed that it about azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Recommended Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure solves the ML in cloud environment it provide feasible cloud services to their user. azure gives all the serverless and function of integration other services with in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ekow B.

Network operations engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/18/2022

"MS Azure review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

the security features it supports is very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

its Linux bias and hence doesn't load very fast on windows machines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Devender Singh R.

Desktop Support Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/7/2022

"Azure Comments"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Microsoft Azure is one of the best tools to administrate the IT Admin Task and it is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Microsoft Keeps on changing There user interface view very frequently,which is very difficult to adopt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/24/2022

"Azure is user-friendly cloud provider"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

The way to access azure, it is friendly for windows, Mac and Linux users

Azure has everything in their portfolio Project Management, Version Control, Pipeline.

I like pipeline and azure board Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Limitations of devops pipeline APis that they don't support approving pipelines remotely.

While working with microservice architecture doing production release with 100+ pipelines, it is pain to go for each pipeline and approve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Due to lack of community support not much affordable to small companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Bringing all tools used during SDLC under one umbrella is really helpful, we are able to consolidate project management, source control, ci-cd and some infrastructure running with Azure services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham S.

DevOps Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/22/2022

"Microsoft Azure Review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Microsoft Azure provides all required services which is use in a an organization, and all the services are user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Till now I have use its best user interface and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.