# Azure Virtual WAN Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Network Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/network-management-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Azure Virtual WAN Connect your global branch offices, point-of-sale locations, and sites using Azure and the Microsoft global network. Plan, configure, and seamlessly deploy new connections, tuned for a growing ecosystem of market-leading partners. ## Azure Virtual WAN Reviews ### 1. Easy to use and easy to get started virtual WAN solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harri A. | Laboratory engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** You can start for free, then pay as you go. Easy to get started **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** Even though there are a lot of documentation and howto's available, it feels sometimes complicated to get started **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** Use the free test period to see if it fits your needs **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it much more simple to teach function of networks to our students, as it is easy to create virtual networks on Azure ### 2. Azure Virtual WAN - Secure, Available, and Accessible **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Liane M. | Founder & Head Crack-up, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** I appreciate the ease of setup/configuration as well as the assurance that my environment is secure. **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** Some of the costs associated with maintaining this environment could be hefty. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** Be sure to have your requirements understood, documented, which would allow you to understand the total cost of ownership (TCO) - meaning, your monthly costs/fees for deploying your Virtual WAN. This will prevent any potential sticker price shock, and if you compare with other Secure Virtual WANs, you would see the overall savings here. **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Parallel processing during client migration from an on-premise environment to secure cloud environment. ### 3. Great Global Option **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nate R. | SEO Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** Our favorite thing about Virtual WAN is its global capabilities. There are most definitely a lot of better options out there for companies with a more global focus, but Virtual WAN is one of the best global options we've seen. It is an extremely robust tool, that seems to account for any user most anywhere across the globe. **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** At times, we have issues with connectivity. This doesn't seem to be as contingent upon specific regions of the world, as it does to specific times connected to sporadic outages that are difficult to foresee. This leaves us mostly satisfied, but with the constant worry that there will be another outage, leaving certain groups of users without service or good connectivity. Again, these outages are sporadic, but still scary. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** Make sure you look carefully into its features. It is most certainly a great and powerful tool, but it doesn't come cheap. Make sure you know exactly which features you need so that you can only be paying for what you need. **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure Virtual WAN is an excellent global solution. The connectivity that it provides us no matter which part of the world our traffic is coming from, Virtual WAN seems to adapt extremely well, and allow for a great UX. For us, it has solved the problem of only offering our top notch service to certain areas of the globe. Now we feel that we can offer it to pretty much anyone. ### 4. Azure Virtual WAN-Review-ETPL **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradeep S. | Chief Technical Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** it helps the organization to connect one site to another site, create an express route and point to the site connections **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** nothing is disliked in this product it is always worthy **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many organizations required hybrid solutions. Connection between onpremise site and Azure ### 5. VPN with efficient site-to-site scalability. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edward B. | Senior Programmer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** Design and more organized model, I love the simple configuration to open ports of connections where the networks stabilize access, the other configurations will be automatic where you will take and connect the selected networks in order to use the VPN in your console, it is too efficient and thanks to this virtual console it is safer to navigate since it is not encrusted in the browser and there is no way to detect if there is any type of active VPN. **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** The connectivity some of the times fails at the moment that there is some instability in the internet connection, this virtual console will not show any failure in the and you will be unprotected without knowing the networks are visible and also if you open the connection between two devices one with less one layer will slow down the two connection platform. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** It should be used by all the people who administer networks, it is a headache to have this platform. **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** The creation of certain categories of automated systems with connections is often somewhat difficult because the support of the connections are not as effective and often a risk but with this console gives you the manual connection of the team and streamlines a development environment. ### 6. Seamless Azure Virtual WAN **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ehsan A. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** Azure Virtual WAN service enabled us to have an optimized, automated and wide scale branch connectivity. It brings us the ability to solid connectivity between our branches to Azure with SDWAN devices using built in ease of use and automated connectivity and configuration management. **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** Needs to be expertly managed and maintained, which includes patching and server monitoring. Unlike local services, it requires expertise to ensure all moving parts work together efficiently. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** It's easy to run, so rational and easy going by preventing you to define erroneous settings. **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a company with some branches across the world, we need to connect all around the world and provide interconnectivity. Using Riverbed’s SteelConnect and Microsoft’s Azure Virtual WAN have assisted us to deploy locations in minutes easily in a few steps, control the access and privileges , and remove sophisticated and costly scenarios. This capability will allow us to engage in new markets with great speed and agility. ### 7. Azure virtual Wan brings the right networking with highly secure connectivity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raj k. | Database Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** Azure WAN connectivity for site to site connections is reliable and secure. Our on-premise VPN site is connected to HUB which enables the connectivity of our site to other Azure regions by creating a Virtual Network and a virtual hub vpngateway. The network communications have become more secure and cost effective. **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** We are performing a lot of tests and still in the pilot phase with the WAN services. Till now,no big issues have come up. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** Networking on cloud is the need of today and Azure WAN services have all the reliable resources with a lot to offer **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are directing our network traffic to Vnet (Azure Virtual network) by using the route table for HUB ### 8. Very pleased with the service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carl O. | Project manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** I love how it connected different aspects of our business, particularly sales **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** It could definitely be easier to use and navigate, as it took a while to get to grips with it. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** Do your research. **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It brings people together ### 9. My review for Azure virtual WAN **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Khola M. | Secondary Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** It is a great VPN with great design and tools that makes an efficient site to site scalability. It is very organized with an simple configuration to open the ports of connections.. It is simple to navigate as it is not entitled in the browser and no active VPN can be detected. **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** The connectivity sometimes don't occur due to a failed and unstable internet connection. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** It should be used by everyone who are related with the administrated networks. It is very easy to understand and the usage is simple. Thus saves your time too. **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a great software that helps you access websites of the world of any kind. It is very easy to use and streamlines the development. ### 10. Great way to organize company sites **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** My company uses Microsoft Azure to organize all of our internal sites and apps in one place that you can access with the same login. When you log in there are about 20 tiles representing different apps that you can then use seamlessly. It saves a lot of time and frustration. **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** My company uses two-factor login, and you can check a box to not have to get a text message code for 30 days if you're using your regular computer. However, I've found that even when I check the box, I'm sometimes asked to enter another code repeatedly before the 30 days is over. **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before I would have to log in on many individual sites that I can now access all through one portal. It makes me more efficient. ### 11. Virtual WAN **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janet G. | Certified Project Manager, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** The cost is number one. Works well with a multi region design and very similar to hub and spoke topology which is more costly. **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** latency, it's not like a point to point and there can be disconnects / interruptions that in some environments is not acceptable. comparable to VPN connection vs point to point **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** The cost is the biggest benefit, and I see many companies moving in this direction. I worry about the latency ### 12. Simplified Global Connectivity ! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** Its simplified the connection and automated branch-to-branch communication through Azure cloud, No specific express route and enable option with active-active tunnel options **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** I see the advantage when accessing Azure cloud-based applications. But not sure they are providing 100 % any security functionality **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** If its good, if we are using in Azure cloud to better connectivity for globally your wan in branch **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multiple store and branch connection ### 13. Azure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** Azure is able to connect businesses simply through a safe and easy to use platform **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** Some of the features are initially difficult to use but customer support is helpful **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** In term of connecting businesses, azure has been a great feature ### 14. Great Tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** Ease of use and interface. Great tool for working **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** I think it’s not intuitive at first, takes a bit to learn **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better connectivity ### 15. perfect connectivity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Virtual WAN?** user friendly and enhances remote office connectivity **What do you dislike about Azure Virtual WAN?** The software is only extremely perfect for smaller workloads **Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual WAN:** i will recomend the software to anyone wishing to have an easy network connectivity **What problems is Azure Virtual WAN solving and how is that benefiting you?** good connectivity between branches enhancing effective flow of information. ## Azure Virtual WAN Discussions - [What is Azure Virtual WAN used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-azure-virtual-wan-used-for) - [What would you choose for your DEV-SEC-OPS environment to support multiple organizations?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-would-you-choose-for-your-dev-sec-ops-environment-to-support-multiple-organizations) - 1 upvote - [View Azure Virtual WAN pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-virtual-wan/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+09%3A05%3A35+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e1b94651-d115-4b5b-8e01-64dd0e75827e&secure%5Btoken%5D=2bfb416b9ab1344c0b4dc5366b58bc3cfaa7981f833fa19551b15c90cc231a6a&format=llm_user) ## Azure Virtual WAN Features **Management** - Network Automation - Network Traffic Analyzer - User Provisioning - Network Analytics - Resource Maintenance **Monitoring** - Network Monitoring - Network Discovery - Network Asset Mapping **Support** - Real-time alerting - Hybrid Infrastructure Support - API Integration **Agentic AI - Network Management Tools** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Azure Virtual WAN Alternatives - [Cisco DNA Center](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-cisco-dna-center/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (47 reviews) - [Auvik](https://www.g2.com/products/auvik-networks/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (379 reviews) - [Progress WhatsUp Gold](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-whatsup-gold/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (380 reviews)