What is Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?
Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle庐 software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.
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92 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
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- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews
Abhishek S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Gaming and Hospitality
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2021
Best cloud platform
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
1- Proactive and responsive support. We've worked with most other cloud providers - Amazon, Google, Oracle. Amazon Web Services' customer support is a black hole and their documentation is worthless. Google and Oracle are better, but Azure's support is responsive and their docs are pretty good. 2- Azure's Web UI is pretty easy to work with
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
1- The product is constantly evolving both in terms of features and user-friendliness. 2- Microsoft effectively tunes for their own applications 3- Microsoft Azure functions can run be hosted and run inside of Kubernetes. This allows solutions based on Azure functions cloud agnostic. 4-Azure Active Directory is the top of the list. No organization can be without a robust and capable identity management system for the users. having the identities managed in the cloud means that your people can potentially be authenticated to more systems everywhere, allowing more work to get done more securely.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I know cost is a barrier for many organizations. The retail prices may seem high and may be out of reach now, but with careful planning and negotiation, along with a realistic sense of what you can do now verses what you could be doing in the future, the costs should even out.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
During our initial stages with Azure (years ago), we had several hybrid scenarios going, where we had portions of a service on-premises while other portions were in Azure. Active Directory was a good example. The Hybrid story got better and better and made "jumping to the cloud" less of an abrupt jump and more of a careful walk. The Hybrid ease has probably only gotten better since then.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
Vincent C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Gaming and Hospitality
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Aug 2021
Full Featured Enterprise product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
Microsoft's seamless integrations with all their other technology make it a great choice for a cloud platform. This integration capability is what sets it apart from other cloud or infrastructure software providers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ease of administration using their graphical web interface.
What do you dislike most about this product?
the complexity of scripting and automation in Powershell.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Work closely with Microsoft to find out your needs and the integration requirements.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Mayara G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jul 2021
Not so intuitive
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
The name Microsoft and integration with other Microsoft products
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Perfect documentation.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Instability of the instances (servers)
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It's a good platform if you use Microsoft in your company
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Caring
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
