Azure Virtual Machines

Azure VMs provide us with the flexibility, scalability, and reliability required for cloud management and optimization solutions. We can leverage VMs for various use cases, including application hosting, development and testing, data analysis, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud deployments. Also one of the major use of of Azure VM is it's highly cost effective than AWS EC2 so it helps us in Cost Management part as well.

Azure Virtual Machines is our first choice when we want to host virtualized Windows servers in the cloud. No other hosting provider provides the excellent level of integration that Microsoft does in their Azure hosting environment. Whether we need to spin up a server for a short period of time, or keep a production critical instance running with minimal failure, we only use Azure Virtual Machines when that server requires Microsoft Windows.

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 disposable. Sometimes we need to quickly upgrade the VM to respond to the increasing demand for the app running on that VM. All that is a a breeze to handle on Azure Virtual Machines.

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 is to migrate a system as-is to the cloud before restructuring it. The second reason, is for specific needs where we can't solely rely on PaaS or SaaS services, and we need to have the flexibility provided by a lower level IaaS VM

I used Azure Virtual Machines in my last organization for deploying out Machine Learning model and related workloads on virtual machines. Our requirement was to enable automated deployment of our compute engine - Databricks, our ML models, and Airflow workflows on scalable virtual machines and Azure Virtual Machines was our choice in the last organization I worked with.

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

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 strategy. There are various options available in terms of size and cost to meet the organisation's budget requirements. Microsoft also has some of the best support I've seen with solutions architects sessions through MS for startups.

Azure Virtual Machines are easy to configure and install and offer highly scalable and flexible possibilities with ready-to-use on-demand resource availability which enables our organization to optimize server and storage utilization capabilities. Easy on report creation and also easy to adjust functions to fit the way we work.

In our company, all of the VM infrastructure used for production and corporate needs is in the Azure cloud and we Use Azure Virtual Machines for all of our needs. The only exception, when we don't use this product in the Azure cloud, is when we use Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Azure Virtual Machines come with different hardware configurations and it can suit any need - there are small VMs for testing and DEV and there are very large VMs as well built for higher performance of the production environment.

We use VMs for many different purposes:
- Isolated development machines for working with Azure cloud services.
- Hosting Jenkins master server used to deploy our Azure-based applications.
- Hosting Jenkins agents for CI/CD pipelines which are built on separate VNETs for dev, test, sim, and prod.
- Azure Data Factory integration runtime to run ADF pipelines.

Capabilities of infrastructure were extended using Azure Virtual Machines.
The business problems the product addresses are many.
Some of them are:
1. Testing the applications on cross platforms. It is basically testing whether the software works in all the operating systems.
2. Automatic allotment of virtual machines based on the traffic encountered.

We are using Azure Virtual Machines for our core development and production servers and we found Azure Virtual Machines as one of the best cloud virtual machines due to their burst internet bandwidth which provides better accessibility to the services deployed on Azure Virtual Machines. Azure Virtual Machines are the best when coupled with other Azure services.

Azure Virtual Machines are convenient, and we have been using them in our production environment. The machines offer a great offer and integration to our existing environment and excellent security features to ensure we handle the vulnerabilities better. I recommend it to everyone who has a current virtualization environment (Vmware or Vsphere) as it will be easy to understand.

As a large organization, we use Azure Virtual Machines in multiple projects and for multiple customers. We are a center of excellence team that provides a lot of new product evaluations and for that one of our preferred platforms is Azure Virtual Machines, it's more stable and user-friendly. We also use it internally for different tool deployments.

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 these virtual machines such as databases, web servers, applications servers, scripts, and automation jobs and code. Products vary from web applications SaaS software, backend logic, application programming interface (API), these APIs are built to be consumed from mobile applications. The products and solutions are for different use cases such as CRM, sales force automation, recruitment, hr, e-learning, and e-commerce.

Azure Virtual Machines serve the use case of when we need virtual machines that are running on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. We are a multi-cloud provider and therefore it's critical for our business value proposition to offer our services on multiple major cloud versions. When you are in the Azure cloud already, Azure Virtual Machines are the only sensible choice of virtual machines.

Within our organization, we recently embarked on the completion of two large, highly complex technical programs involving the migration of a large number of applications, databases, and other IT services out of an on-premises data center and a Virtual Private Cloud, into Microsoft Azure public cloud. The use of Azure Virtual Machines allows us to host these migrated applications and services within our Azure tenant.

We use Azure Virtual Machines to mainly manage our end-user web platform utilizing its web app plans, we also sit VM servers behind this that contain the data for these web services along with some on-prem servers, we have a VPN direct to Azure and some VPNs direct to clients from our Azure services.

We use Azure Virtual Machines to create VMs as we grow and add additionals needs. To support the infra and services, and also for the test environment. It's easy to set up a new VM in a few minutes.

I build backup servers and repositories using the Azure VMs x86 infrastructure to backup clients.

As an organization with more than 75 sites across a wide geographic area and the requirement to provide high speed access from each site meant that we had to transition away from a hub and spoke design and provide access to resources from each site. By placing the servers and services in the cloud we are able to provide secure access to our resources in a cost-effective manner.

Azure VMs were used to demonstrate the potential of cloud servers to our managed IT services clients. We also used them for testing and development in house as an easy way to test applications inside of Azure.

In our organization Azure Virtual Machines is being used to collect data. It is being used across the whole organization and is greatly appreciated by everyone. It addresses business problems like miscommunication and incorrect data. We love using Azure Virtual Machines and will continue to use it throughout our company forever.