G2

Bibhishan D.

QA Lead

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/23/2026

"Azure VMs: Flexible Configurations and Fast, Simple Deployment"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

What makes Azure VMs stand out for our team is the sheer flexibility in configuration.

Whether we need a small B-series VM for lightweight dev workloads or a compute-optimized instance for heavier processing tasks, the right option is always available.

The deployment process is remarkably simple — we can spin up a new VM within minutes, which has been a huge productivity boost for our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

We've had a few surprise bills early on before we set up proper cost alerts and budgets.

Costs can also be difficult to predict upfront, especially when you factor in storage, networking, and data egress charges on top of compute costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure VMs have been central to our strategy of moving away from on-premises infrastructure.

We use them to host internal applications, run test environments for QA, and support development workloads that need isolated, configurable environments.

Overall, it has reduced our dependency on physical hardware, shortened our deployment timelines, and given our engineers much more flexibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.