




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
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98 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Enables Productivity
- Fair
- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate
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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Anshul S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2021
Simple and Effective Disaster Recovery
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
Advanced-Data Analytics and Business Insights,Microsoft Azure Cloud Security Center,Regulatory and Legislative Compliance Frameworks,Simple and Effective Disaster Recovery,cost effective
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Effective Disaster Recovery,cost effective
What do you dislike most about this product?
Lack of Integrated Backup,Poor Management GUI and Tools
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Defiently give this prodcut a try. Worth it
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Effective Service
- Saves Time
Uday G.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2021
Versatile Cloud Platform With Awesome Experience
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
A portfolio of cloud-based solutions, Microsoft Azure, may be utilized alone or as part of a larger cloud computing system, depending on your needs. There are a number of cloud computing technology offered by Microsoft Azure that is intended for IT managers and software developers. Intellectual services including natural language processing, data analysis, and machine learning for open-[source] architectures like Tensorflow, MXNet, Keras, and others are provided by Microsoft Azure. In the service business, it is utilized based on consumer requirements. Assists with scalability as well as dependability and safety.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Azure offers a complete lifespan solution. You'll have a lot of alternatives to choose from, from creation to automatic deployment. As well, custom connector permits of existing on-premise assets. All services have excellent information, which makes it easy for a newbie to get started. The community and the Azure Technical staff provide outstanding help. In comparison to similar services given by other companies in the same area, BOT Services, Computer Vision Services, and ML Frameworks produce great outcomes.
What do you dislike most about this product?
A tiny part of the documentation is missing, and it can be perplexing. The jargon might sometimes be a bit perplexing for those who are brand new to the field. The primary downside is that you must have all the details before creating the Gateway, or else you'll have to configure it again. Automated deployment templates have a few flaws that need to be ironed out from time to time.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Since this is the only native choice available, we're stuck with it, but if you study the material carefully, it'll be a lot easier to work with Microsoft Azure. In our firm, we have a number of user projects that use Azure, particularly in ASP.NET. When using SQL Server as a foundation, there is a certain amount of delay between the data server and the application server. We don't have an easy option to install Lets Encrypt on websites, everything has to be done manually for now. As a backup, we utilize rival G, which is significantly less expensive. It is important to us that our clients have a positive experience with our applications.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features

Muhammad Daud S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2021
Next Gen Cloud Computing with Azure
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
Microsoft Azure support and infrastructure speed is a lot better than other hostings like Google Platform. It allows the capability with user friendly environment to engage and work with features. Microsoft Azure has great features with Tunnels, VM, Storage and DNS. Microsoft server 2019 can interact in a great way with Azure cloud.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Microsoft Azure is unique in its capabilities with Cloud Computing, Servers management, working with VPN tunnels and DNS records. It allowed us the capability to connect our multi-site that we were unable to do with local setup.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Microsoft Azure cost is high with Traffic, VM and other features. It should be reduced to an affordable packages
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would suggest anyone buying Azure subscription to go through CSP process with any vendor to make sure the environment is properly managed. If you are managing in house then you/your engineers should be Microsoft Azure Certified
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing