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41 Reviews and Ratings

Azure Cloud Services Reviews

6 Reviews

Azure Cloud Services - Beginner friendly and cost effective

Rating: 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organisation, we use Azure Cloud Services as a hybrid cloud. We are migrating our services, jobs, and database to Azure Cloud Services using VMs, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Cosmos DB, and blob storage. We are also using Azure AI for different AI use case in our organization. We've migrated over 90+ microservices to Azure Cloud for our enterprise customer and still deploying remaining to cutover on prem cost and have high up time and allowing to usecase using Azure AI. We are utilizing this at different levels from VM to AKS, AI, Database and all aspects for our enterprise usecase and datahubs

Pros

  • We are using Azure Cosmo DB and flex DB on azure as our database operations for datahub.
  • We are utilizing Azure Kubernetes services for deploying our micro services in different environment
  • We are utilizing Azure blob storage for our fallout records to reprocess
  • We are also using Azure AI factory for our internal AI use cases.
  • We are also utilizing Azure infrastructure including VMs, cloud storage and other services for our microservices application.

Cons

  • Latency and bandwidth as we often see gap here
  • There were many challenges as a developer while migrating our DB from on prem to cloud
  • System downtime is also one issue that can be improved

Likelihood to Recommend

I think if you have simple application where u want to utilise Azure Cloud Services and it's internal team and less interaction and not serious much about bandwidth and latency and budget is tight then Azure Cloud Services are good. But bandwidth, latency, security and privacy or container based applications are there with higher needs then go for other cloud based services. As we believe in multi cloud adoption with Azure, GCP, AWS. so based on your usecase go for it.
Vetted Review
Azure Cloud Services
3 years of experience

Cloud Brilliance for Business Success

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Addressing rapid growth or fluctuating workloads. Azure provides scalable infrastructure and services, allowing organizations to scale resources up or down based on demand. Migrating from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. Azure facilitates the modernization of legacy systems, reducing maintenance costs and improving overall agility.

Pros

  • Azure excels in providing scalable infrastructure and services. For example, organizations can use Azure Virtual Machines to dynamically adjust computing resources based on demand.
  • Azure's Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, such as Azure App Service, empower developers to focus on building applications without dealing with the underlying infrastructure.
  • Azure seamlessly integrates with on-premises environments, facilitating a hybrid cloud approach.
  • Azure Functions allows organizations to execute code in a serverless environment, triggering functions in response to events without the need to provision or manage servers.

Cons

  • Understanding and estimating costs can be intricate due to the multitude of services and pricing options.
  • Aligning and standardizing documentation formats, examples, and terminology would contribute to a more cohesive and user-friendly learning experience.
  • The Azure Portal, while powerful, can be overwhelming for new users, with a steep learning curve. Enhancing the user interface to make it more intuitive and simplifying navigation would help users of all experience levels work more efficiently.

Likelihood to Recommend

Hosting large-scale enterprise applications that require scalable and reliable infrastructure. Azure's Virtual Machines and Azure App Service provide a robust foundation for deploying and managing these applications with ease. Azure's hybrid capabilities, including Azure Arc, enable seamless management and integration of resources across various environments.
Vetted Review
Azure Cloud Services
3 years of experience

Overview of using Azure Cloud Services

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using IAAS and PAAS ,Azure Cloud Service is a cloud based platform which we can use for remote access our database by connecting the Microsoft Azure server by our employees working different places remotely, we are using it for storage of our client data storing client data previously is manual now we can use the storage as a container over internet which saves our time and cost and it's a secure platform.

Pros

  • It secures our data very well because of it's leading security and compliance for data privacy laws
  • The complexity of installing and managing servers on a network has been reduced, clearing more time for developers to build better solutions.
  • Web applications can be build easier and faster as well as secure by using IAAS and PAAS

Cons

  • Management activities related to team can be improved
  • More customized reporting ability , bad documentation and support
  • Pricing model is too complex

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Azure Cloud services is a good choice for hosting web applications, based on requirements it can be simple websites or complex web services as well as it provides automating application development and deployment pipeline.
It's less appropriate in case of cost-effective option for organizations with tight budget constraints. For very basic static websites, Microsoft Azure's offerings might be seen as overkill.
Vetted Review
Azure Cloud Services
3 years of experience

Azure Cloud Services - Transforming Your Business Operations

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azure DevOps, Azure AD, Azure MySQL and Azure Postgres Db for our software developments. As the Azure MySQL single server is in retirement path we are working on single server to flexible server migration since last 3 months with different methods suggested by Azure team but no method is successful yet

Pros

  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure database services
  • Azure AD

Cons

  • Azure MySQL single server to flexible server migration
  • Database Migration Services
  • Azure VMs

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Cloud Services are well suited for web applications that needs scalability with minimal down time. It is less appropriate for small applications.

Very secure and reliable Cloud service management product.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Cloud Platform has been a very effective tool to our entire organizations Cloud service management and the best performance monitoring capability for all our Clouds applications and even the easy compatibility testing and configuration management ability. The security management provided by this platforms is reliable with excellent access controls and permissions. The automation and orchestration provided by this platform is the best and makes it easily to integrate systems and customize its API. Highly collaborative tool and with excellent capabilities to data migration and change management.

Pros

  • Effective service management and performance monitoring capability.
  • Reliable security management with excellent access controls.
  • Best orchestration and easy configuration management.
  • Easy on compatibility testing and change management.

Cons

  • It is complex to migrate large volumes of data by new users.
  • With intuitive data recovery by new users, it will be superb.
  • Change management is not easy to new users.

Likelihood to Recommend

I like the security provided by Microsoft Cloud Platform that gives us comfort that our Clouds data and applications are safe and secure with excellent backups and recovery capabilities and our entire organization depend on this platform for effective data migration. The system integrations with this platform are highly intuitive with the ease to customize its API and excellent performance monitoring capability to all our Clouds applications.

Functional Cloud Services Management and Very Secure Data Management System.

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

High functionalities and effective services management across the Cloud services and API life cycle management capability and even the easy configuration management ability provided by Microsoft Cloud Platform is productive. The access control management via the platform is nice and network traffic control functions are very responsive and easy reports creation Microsoft platform with excellent load balancing capability.

Pros

  • Effective Cloud Application management software.
  • Security and access management.
  • Perfect testing management.
  • Configuration easy management.

Cons

  • Just on Cloud deployment for those new to the platform.
  • Multiple data reports creation.
  • Migrating a large amount of data.

Likelihood to Recommend

The collaboration through Microsoft Cloud Platform is perfect, project data management and the remote accessibility is effective. The platform offers the best development portals and easy policy management solution and the interface configuration is very effective. The platform allows easy monitoring of various application performance and very secure tool for the personal data management.