Azure Virtual Machines Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Overview

What is Azure Virtual Machines?

Virtual Machines (VMs) are available on Microsoft Azure, providing what is built as a low-cost, per-second compute service, available via Windows or Linux.

Recent Reviews

Azure VM's || Cost Effective Solution for VM Allocation.

7 out of 10

March 31, 2024

Incentivized

Azure VMs provide us with the flexibility, scalability, and reliability required for cloud management and optimization solutions. We can …

There is only one choice for hosting Windows servers in the cloud

7 out of 10

October 16, 2023

Incentivized

Azure Virtual Machines is our first choice when we want to host virtualized Windows servers in the cloud. No other hosting provider …

Azure VMs offer flexibility beyond competition

10 out of 10

June 17, 2023

Incentivized

In our business we often have a need for VMs. Sometimes the VM needs to be reliable and always available. Sometimes it needs to be …

Let's talk about VMs

6 out of 10

April 05, 2022

Incentivized

We use Azure VMs for 2 main reasons. The first one, is when we need to do a lift&shift from on-prem to the cloud, where the main purpose …

Databricks on Azure VMs

7 out of 10

April 05, 2022

I used Azure Virtual Machines in my last organization for deploying out Machine Learning model and related workloads on virtual machines. …

Opens the door to cloud computing

8 out of 10

April 04, 2022

We have a small cloud footprint and we use it more to test specific applications and how they behave off-premise.

Straight forward to setup and deploy your application server. Excellent support from Microsoft

9 out of 10

April 01, 2022

Incentivized

We used Azure VMs to deploy docker containers. They are really easy to get started with and work well with for us as part of a multi-cloud …

On-demand availability to resources and pay-as-you-go solution

9 out of 10

March 29, 2022

Incentivized

Azure Virtual Machines are easy to configure and install and offer highly scalable and flexible possibilities with ready-to-use on-demand …

Azure Virtual Machines

10 out of 10

March 29, 2022

Incentivized

In our company, all of the VM infrastructure used for production and corporate needs is in the Azure cloud and we Use Azure Virtual …

Azure VMs are good value for money

9 out of 10

March 27, 2022

Incentivized

We use VMs for many different purposes:
- Isolated development machines for working with Azure cloud services.
- Hosting Jenkins master …

Virtual Provision for better performance

10 out of 10

March 25, 2022

Incentivized

Capabilities of infrastructure were extended using Azure Virtual Machines.
The business problems the product addresses are many.
Some of …

My Honest Review of Azure Virtual Machines.

8 out of 10

March 25, 2022

Incentivized

We are using Azure Virtual Machines for our core development and production servers and we found Azure Virtual Machines as one of the best …

A perfect setup for easy availability

8 out of 10

March 25, 2022

Incentivized

Azure Virtual Machines are convenient, and we have been using them in our production environment. The machines offer a great offer and …

Suites very well with my CoE practice needs, flexible and compatible

10 out of 10

March 25, 2022

Incentivized

As a large organization, we use Azure Virtual Machines in multiple projects and for multiple customers. We are a center of excellence team …

Azure Virtual Machines, quick win

9 out of 10

March 25, 2022

Incentivized

I am using the virtual machine to host my and my customer's products and custom-made solutions, we are installing some other software on …

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Awards

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Popular Features

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Virtual machine automated provisioning (23)
9.0
90%
Live virtual machine backup (19)
9.0
90%
Live virtual machine migration (16)
8.5
85%
Management console (21)
8.0
80%

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Provides Wide Range of VM Sizes That helps us in Effective Selection.
Azure can also improve the UI and Configuration Part setup for VM's

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

Integrations with other Azure services
Allow configuration mixing and matching rather than VM sizes

Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Pricing

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3 Year Reserved - Burstable VMs - B1S

$0.0038

Cloud

Per Hour

Spot - General Purpose - Av2

$0.005

Cloud

Per Hour

1 Year Reserved - Burstable VMs - B1S

$0.0059

Cloud

Per Hour

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Server Virtualization

Server virtualization allows multiple operating systems to be run completely independently on a single server

8.6

Avg 8.3

9
Virtual machine automated provisioning
(23) Ratings
Automation of virtual machine provisioning through use of vm templates
8
Management console
(21) Ratings
Management console for central administration of vm environment
9
Live virtual machine backup
(19) Ratings
Ability to backup vms without interrupting service
8.5
Live virtual machine migration
(16) Ratings
Downtime minimization by migrating live vms between hosts and across clusters
8.5
Hypervisor-level security
(16) Ratings
Hypervisor-level security including antivirus and anti-malware

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What is Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual Machines Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Virtual Machines (VMs) are available on Microsoft Azure, providing what is built as a low-cost, per-second compute service, available via Windows or Linux.

Reviewers rate Virtual machine automated provisioning and Live virtual machine backup highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Azure Virtual Machines are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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March 31, 2024

Azure VM's || Cost Effective Solution for VM Allocation.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Google Compute Engine, AWS Lambda

October 16, 2023

There is only one choice for hosting Windows servers in the cloud

Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Linode, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Microsoft 365

April 05, 2022

Let's talk about VMs

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Food & Beverages Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 6 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Fargate, Amazon CloudFront

March 29, 2022

On-demand availability to resources and pay-as-you-go solution

Stacey Arjen

Technology Product Manager

Booking.com (Internet, 10,001+ employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Sprinklr Modern Marketing & Advertising, Adobe Marketing Cloud, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

March 27, 2022

Azure VMs are good value for money

Filip Grasheski

DevOps Engineer

Deutsche Börse (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

March 25, 2022

My Honest Review of Azure Virtual Machines.

Umair Mehboob

Senior Devops Engineer

iENGINEERING (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Cognito, Amazon CloudFront, Azure App Service, Azure Blob Storage, Amazon Route 53

March 25, 2022

Suites very well with my CoE practice needs, flexible and compatible

Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Reseller Incentivized

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

March 25, 2022

Azure Virtual Machines, quick win

Feras Diab, PMP

Founder / CEO

Converged Technology (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Microsoft Azure IoT Central, Azure App Service, Azure Blob Storage, Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, Microsoft Azure IoT Edge

March 25, 2022

Azure Virtual Machines are perfectly serviceable

Verified User

Contributor in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Azure Backup

March 25, 2022

Cost-effective for large organisations with a cloud-first IT strategy

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Utilities Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

ServiceNow IT Service Management, Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS), Microsoft Teams

March 25, 2022

Why Azure Cloud Virtual Machines just is.

Allan Allitt

SRE

PA Media Group (Media Production, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Veritas Backup Exec, Chef Infra, Dynatrace, Kubernetes Dashboard

March 25, 2022

Create and deploy VM easily for many purposes and services

Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Real Estate Company, 501-1000 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform), Azure AI (Cortana), Azure Artifacts

March 24, 2022

Azure VM interface is really intuitive and easy to use.

Alexandre Carvalho

Senior Technical Support Engineer

FalconStor Software (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

IBM Spectrum Protect, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Zadara Cloud Platform

May 01, 2021

Azure Virtual Machines are the future of datacenters

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Azure Backup, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Automate (formerly microsoft flow)

March 29, 2021

Extremely flexible with a vast range of configurations and features although a bit of a learning curve required.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Reseller Incentivized

Other Software Used

DigitalOcean Droplets, Linode, Cloudflare

August 28, 2020

Azure Virtual Machines Review

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Other Software Used

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Google Compute Engine, DigitalOcean Droplets

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$0.0038

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$0.005

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$0.0059

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