


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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+93 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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Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews
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

Shrinivas K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2021
Cloud under control
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
Microsoft Azure is a perfect tool for controlling all the cloud resources under a single space, it offers all the feature from tracking the activity in the resources to monitoring them
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Azure gives the option to list relatable resource under same resource groups making it easier to find them and in addition it also offers tags which can be used for some more distinction between resources
What do you dislike most about this product?
The activity notifications don't appear to be consistent when the Azure portal page is open across multiple tabs
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For an organisation hosting its application with its own infrastructure, Microsoft Azure would be the perfect candidate to maintain the cloud resources
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity