Azure Virtual Machines Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

The User interface is very good.

Coponents to connect with cloud storages are very useful.

Virtual machines are very efficient.

Customer service is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike but the virtual machines are working slow sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing is Pay as you go model as some times there is no commitment of how many days we need to use the resource. Very user friendly interface. The built in security features are very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation of Azure can be improved as sometimes I can not get something useful from that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure is a modern all in one place for my cloud requirements. It provides solutions ranging from simple virtual machines to a full suite of tooling for building and maintaining software products at big organizations.

Its SDK makes the experience much better, I'm able to run my favourite programming languages without the hesitation of support issues.

All in all I'd highly recommend it for building next gen applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Due to its massive tooling and usecases it can feel pretty overwhelming at times, apart from that costing sometines could be a bit on the higher side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mostly I used Azure for development purposes and I love it's flexible and scalable cloud computing solutions which allow me to easily scale resources up or down based on project demand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mostly it is a good product but the support channels are too slow and documentation is also not so clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was impressed by the vastness of services provided by Microsoft Azure. It lead me to attaining a few certifications during my pathway to learning more about the services provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Learning about all Azure services may take a lot of time. In some cases users may need to undertake relevant certification training to learn about all of its features and effectively utilize the solutions. Not have this knowledge may lead to mistakes such as leaving services running and ending up paying for it under the pay as you go model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like the best about Microsoft Azure is their AI and Machine learning capability which aims to provide a smooth integration via AI into different applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about Microsoft Azure is their steep learning especially for those individuals thar have sufficient knowledge about cloud computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate Azure Virtual Machines for their robust performance and scalability, essential for handling diverse computational workloads. The platform's seamless integration with various data science tools enhances workflow efficiency, ensuring a productive environment. Azure VMs also provide a reliable and secure infrastructure, crucial for safeguarding sensitive data. I value the platform's commitment to innovation, supporting my work with cutting-edge technologies over the past two years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve for beginners can be steep, hindering swift onboarding and utilization. Although from my past 2 years of experience I prefer azure VM's robustness over other cloud VM's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that using Microsoft Azure, my employees and customers can access their email, file storage, information and websites from anywhere in the world using our secure and SSO based Microsoft logins. The SSO platform provided by Azure allows us to integrate any third-party solution with our existing password strategy. Making the lives of our employees and customers easy, secure, and consistent. Microsoft makes it easy for us to integrate our on-premise Active Directory platform with their Azure Cloud. That creates less work for my Information Technology staff and frees them up to care for other customer issues and requests. I also like that Azure offers a robust feature set for our cloud-based Directory Service platform. This allows us to create redundancy, utilize Microsoft's disaster recovery solution, create servers, desktops, and applications needed to support our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft Azure can be a complex setup. As it is a cloud network, server infrastructure, directory service, desktop provider and holds network applications. It is a very robust tool that should be taken seriously and planned with care. This is not something that should be set up in 5 minutes. There are so many questions involved in setting up Azure and it can be used in many different ways. It is a power tool, to get the most out of it planning is needed. It is also very modularized, so for example if you want to figure out why your monthly charges were X. You will need to build your Azure portal dashboard, so you can see what network, storage, virtualization costs you are incurring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure appears to be built from the ground up as an all-in-one cloud solution, everything you need to administer your cloud apps/servers/endpoints or 365 services is on hand and easy to navigate. The pricing is nice and simple too and doesn't make it difficult to gauge what you're going to be paying. I particularly like the ACL permissions element which makes admin management a breeze. Google Cloud and Amazon AWS take note. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ultimately the price of certain services, Microsoft sometimes showcase their ability or usefulness to combat a specific on-premise service or security issue but it almost feels as if you're constantly being guided to use their solution only and at full cost. It's not the simplest infrastructure to add in your own services or link any non-Azure instances without some tinkering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.