Azure Virtual Machines

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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Implementation Time

3 months

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Users consistently praise the product for its flexibility and scalability, allowing organizations to easily adjust resources based on demand. The seamless integration with other Azure services enhances management efficiency, making it a preferred choice for many. However, some users note that the pricing structure can be complex and potentially high for smaller businesses.

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Edwin S.
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Edwin S.
Senior NOC Analyst.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to set up and affordable"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Easy set up. Variety of image preload and easy way to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

So far nothing. Azure VM has helped me a lot with my labs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subhadip P.
SP
Subhadip P.
Technical Support Engineer 1
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Your cloud your Way"
5/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Its is versatile,hybrid capabilies ,scalabilty ,secure and intereged with microsoft make this easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Cost and plans is the thing that i dont like. It should be more like what we pay for use not to create resources or creating Host and not using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shagun S.
SS
Shagun S.
System Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Use of Azure Virtual Machines"
5/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure offers choice which type of VM we have to create and what type of performance we need. We can assign that particular size to the VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Yes, in Azure we are unable to rename the virtual machine name once created like in VMware. There is another way, like we can create a snapshot of the OS disk and then create a new VM via that snapshot, but that is a lengthy and time-consuming process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ishika  V.
IV
Ishika V.
Associate Functional Consultant
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Of the best in the market."
4/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual Machines like any other cloud provider works the same, nothing really differentiator in terms of capabilities as such, features are the same as other, one feature that I do feel is not available anywhere else is the resolution selection for the VM that is something unique and useful in few cases. It is easy to use, easy to create multiple VMs with a single command and easy to manage. Customer Support is top notch, issues get resolved within 24 hrs. Other than that, it just comes down to what other things Azure has to offer. Integration is the biggest issue for Azure at this point in time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Nothing wrong with the Virtual Machines in general but to use Azure as your complete solution for cloud faces a big issue, as AWS offers so many services with the Virtual machine and to change that is a big challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashok K.
AK
Ashok K.
Functional Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"One of the Best Cloud Computing Platform"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Easy to use the platform and their UI is user friendly. Easy to scale up the workloads & Ram down when the usage is less. It is very cost effective if we use pay as go model.DR Solution is very helpful it has the backup of all the workloads (Compute) we can use it incase of Disaster. Customer support also very helpful & resposne immediately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

I have been working on this for more than 1.5 years and I didn't face any issue with Azure and everything works good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zimmerman Y.
ZY
Zimmerman Y.
Analista de soluções
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"The Greatest Cloud Provider"
5/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

The interface is very easy of use, the resources and services are great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The Homepage is not useful, could be more easy to locate the resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amr M.
AM
Amr M.
ID & Educational Technology Trainer
E-Learning
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to set-up Virtual Machine."
5/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual Machine is an easy-to-implement and managed cloud computing service. It offers configuration options that allow us to configure the optimal VM for Azure SQL workloads and cloud-based applications. Azure VM is scalable, allows fast connection, integrates with various Azure Cloud services/Apps, and has a reliable customer support forum. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The Azure Virtual Machine service is efficient for various workloads, but the price beyond the general-purpose tire is high, especially for short-term contracts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Riya P.
Full Stack Developer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best Cloud Platform"
5/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Microsoft includes all the cloud services. I can easily deploy my application in Microsoft Azure. Also, it provides many options when we create any services/server for ex. virtual machine. it gives many options in RAM, OS etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

It is expensive compared to other cloud services for small businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Microsoft Azure: Create & Deploy VMs"
5/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

It is very easy to use azure portal. It is a piece of cake to create and deploy VMs with OS of your choice. You can literally create a VM within 10 minutes.

The best part is you can pay as you go. Let's say you only use the system for 8hrs a day. So, you can auto shutdown after that time so the payment will be less.

Most of our VDIs and Servers are on Azure which provides high Scalability for our servers and good performance of VMs for the employees.

The customer support of Azure is top-notch I got to admit it, they respond so quick and assign an Engineer like in 10 minutes if the Severity is A and if you are a premium subscriber. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Nothing to dislike, there will be outages sometimes due to unforeseen circumstances like powercuts or disasters. In which the systems may go down and unavailable but fortunately there are options in Azure to re-deploy in other centers in case of failure and we have load balancers and DR systems for our critical landscapes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Agradeep S.
AS
Agradeep S.
System Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"One of the best Cloud Computing services"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Microsoft Azure Compute is a really useful for virtualization of computing services. It's serverless architecture, and scalability helps businesses not to incur huge costs for On premise systems for hosting their products and applications. It uses Kubernetes to manage containers to run web services, and thus makes it easy to manage multiple apps. Batch processing is also one major use. It's usually a bit complicated to be implemented and specially it's difficult to transition from legacy code base to cloud based, and the dependencies often create problems. However Azure has excellent customer support and sometimes for big organizations dedicated resources to help and manage these services. However once set up, it's easy to use and manageable through one single portal. Integration with other software often poses a problem but Azure support often helps, and more importantly Azure offers almost all tools for a complete Application, starting from Business, to Agile boards, Test Management, CICD, Reporting. Once a business is transitioned to a cloud based platform like Azure, frequency of use is daily by everyone for all of these purposes by all stakeholders and maintain complete visibility and transparency of work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The downside of Azure Compute is that it is sometimes complicated to be set up, especially when transitioning services from on-prem to cloud-based. Also, the cost of using it is good, but spending that amount is always better than all the benefits like scalability, maintenance on-prem systems, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

15 months

Average Discount

16%

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