Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
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® 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
98 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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.
How much do users love Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?
Pros
- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Reliable
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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews
Akarsh A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2023
Azure is easy then other vendors, price also good
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
Price is the differentiates from other vendors. Very less price and easy to use but EC2 dashboard is cool where we create everything in just one click on the other hand if i talk about azure you need to go 2-3 pages to create virtual machine good then google cloud,
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
While we create any machine when we attach a disk that was very much good part because on there only we are able to attach everything apart from this we have a support of shell if we have windows machine and we are not able to login inside machine we are using system shell directly to the cloud.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing was dislike everything is good.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Good , as in terms of cost and business need that things
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Amit S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Good tool but needs learning curve
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
the flexibility of virtualization without having to buy and maintain the physical hardware that runs it
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Efficient DevOps.
What do you dislike most about this product?
However, you still need to maintain the virtual machine by performing tasks, such as configuring, patching, and installing the software that runs on it.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Get the clarity on basic understanding of usage before deploying it directly.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Sharin S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2025
Flexible VMs with excellent integration options
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
Their strong integration with other Microsoft services like Entra ID, Azure SQL database and Azure app services.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Flexibility for hybrid cloud deployment and disaster recovery solution. Integration with other Microsoft services and scaling is much easier.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It can be hard to predict monthly cost spicily storage cost, read write operation cost and bandwidth charge.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Take advantage of cost optimization tools and explore hybrid cloud features for better integration with existing Microsoft services.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
