Microsoft Azure Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Overview

What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

Where Infinite Possibilities Meet Cloud Nine

Rating: 8 out of 10

September 27, 2023

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS, IoT services for some devices and DevOps. In the IaaS we use hybrid cloud integration, for software development we decided to use DevOps in ...

Verified user

Administrator

3 years of experience

Why choose Azure?

Rating: 10 out of 10

November 29, 2022

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

Azure is one of the key Cloud providers that has helped with ensuring driving our digitalization. Adopting Azure has helped us scale, operate and manage large applications and...

Joe Anand

Manager - Information Technology

Service Manager

Shell

5 years of experience

Microsoft Cloud option

Rating: 9 out of 10

May 31, 2022

Vetted ReviewVerified User

Have consulted multiple companies to migrate their DC or different workload like SAP to Azure. Azure provides full digital transformation opportunities for any customer. Azure...

Verified user

Partner

5 years of experience

"Microsoft Azure is a reliable IaaS and DaaS and a bit of a challenge."

Rating: 7 out of 10

March 24, 2022

Vetted ReviewVerified User

Microsoft Azure is a DevOps and infrastructure-as-a-a-service cloud platform. It has all the features developers need to interact with microservices, and it’s easy to integrat...

Sourov K Chowdhury

Project Manager - Product Management

Database Software Engineer

Best Web Design Ltd.

1 year of experience

Microsoft Azure is the best cloud solution!

Rating: 10 out of 10

March 9, 2022

Vetted ReviewVerified User

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing solution developed by Microsoft. We have migrated our business application to Azure. It has all the services such as storage, networking, ...

Verified user

Program Manager

2 years of experience

Azure poor customer service

Rating: 1 out of 10

February 22, 2022

Vetted ReviewVerified User

Microsoft, why don't you understand customer service you send me an email regarding an urgent billing issue, I cant seem to fix it, and it's becoming more urgent as the days g...

Verified user

Director

2 years of experience

Best Cloud Computing Solution

Rating: 7 out of 10

November 8, 2021

Vetted ReviewVerified User

As it 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 or departmen...

Nahian Mahmud Shaikat

Analyst - Other

Financial Analyst

Apex Holdings Ltd

2 years of experience

Microsoft Azure is a Class Unto Itself

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 3, 2021

Vetted ReviewVerified User

Our company makes use of Microsoft Azure for a wide range of SaaS and PaaS needs. All of our applications are managed and accessed through Azure AD (Azure Active Directory). I...

Nilufa Hossain

Team Lead - Research & Development

IT Specialist

Lamda I-TECH

1 year of experience

Title For MS Azure

Rating: 9 out of 10

September 29, 2021

Vetted ReviewVerified User

One of the best Public cloud platforms available today, we use it for Iaas, Paas as well as SaaS. Easy to learn, good guiding UI. I highly recommend using the following. Mostl...

Verified user

Analyst

1 year of experience

MS Azure Practical Use!

Rating: 10 out of 10

September 21, 2021

IncentivizedVetted Review

We are using MS Azure for multiple services (PaaS, SaaS) using MS Azure directory services and integrated Azure AD for multiple application access and management. With Azure 2...

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Contributor

5 years of experience

Azure is the leader in Cloud Services environment and should be where your next datacenter is built.

Rating: 10 out of 10

August 25, 2021

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Microsoft Azure is being used to support our entire infrastructure for the organization. It allows us to be a totally decentralized organization that was working from home bef...

Verified user

Analyst

6 years of experience

MS is a great trusted partner to build your tech on.

Rating: 8 out of 10

July 7, 2021

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

It's used on several departments to implement digital services or support the implementation of digital services like IoT and Big Data (e.g. predictive analytics) It addresse...

Verified user

Professional

3 years of experience

You do get what you pay for - if you want to

Rating: 9 out of 10

July 1, 2021

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

Azure is used across the whole orga. It's been a strategic decision to hop on cloud services, to be more flexible and modern.

Stefan Lechner

Manager - Information Technology

Head of global Cloud Services

Knorr Bremse AG

4 years of experience

Azure: How a deallocated $0.11/hr instance cost over $500 in 3 months (Do the math).

Rating: 1 out of 10

June 18, 2021

Vetted Review

I looked to Azure after a slow support response at Google Cloud resulted in tremendous client dissatisfaction. Luckily, I was hesitant to migrate that many resources without m...

Adam Whitney

Engineer - Other

Web Developer

Personal - Freelance

1 year of experience

Microsoft Azure- Great as PaaS, baby as IaaS

Rating: 7 out of 10

April 30, 2021

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use Microsoft Azure for cognitive services like natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning services for built-in open-[source] frameworks like Tenso...

Apurv Doshi

Team Lead - Other

Senior Solutions Architect

Infostretch

2 years of experience

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Pricing

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$29

Cloud

per month

Standard

$100

Cloud

per month

Professional Direct

$1000

Cloud

per month

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

$29 per month

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Product Demos

Microsoft Azure Training - [3] Azure Accounts, Subscriptions and Admin Roles (Exam 70-533)

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Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

8.4

Avg 8.1

8.4
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
(16) Ratings
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
9.2
Dynamic scaling
(16) Ratings
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
8.9
Elastic load balancing
(16) Ratings
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
6.5
Pre-configured templates
(16) Ratings
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
7.5
Monitoring tools
(16) Ratings
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
8.2
Pre-defined machine images
(15) Ratings
Range of different server configurations available
9.8
Operating system support
(16) Ratings
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
9
Security controls
(16) Ratings
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
8.4
Automation
(15) Ratings
Automation of administrative tasks

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Product Details

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What is Microsoft Azure?

Azure is a comprehensive computing platform, providing cloud infrastructure, products and services, developer tools, and innovations in data and AI. Azure has on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, and edge capabilities that offer the flexibility to innovate anywhere.

Developers can use their favorite languages, open-source frameworks, and tools to code and deploy. Azure includes over 200 physical datacenters arranged into more than 60 regions and upholds our customers' expectations with data residency, compliance, and high availability.

An example of some of the service areas Azure covers:

AI + Machine Learning
Analytics
Blockchain
Computing
Containers
Databases
Developer Tools
DevOps
Identity
Integration
Internet of Things
Management
Media
Stack
Migration
Mixed Reality
Mobile
Networking
Security
Storage
Web
Windows Virtual Desktop

Microsoft Azure Integrations

Stackify
APM+

Microsoft Azure Competitors

Microsoft Azure Technical Details

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

Microsoft Azure starts at $29.

Amazon Web Services and SAP HANA Cloud are common alternatives for Microsoft Azure.

Reviewers rate Operating system support highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Microsoft Azure are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

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Pros
Cons

Reliability and Speed: Users have consistently praised DevOps for its reliable performance and fast speed, making it a standout feature that enhances their workflow efficiency and ensures timely project delivery. The reliability of the platform has been crucial for users in meeting their business needs effectively.

Hybrid Usage with IaaS: Reviewers highly value the outstanding hybrid usage capabilities of DevOps through its Infrastructure as a Service offering, allowing for seamless integration of different environments and maximizing flexibility in resource allocation. This flexibility enables users to adapt their infrastructure to changing demands efficiently.

Wide Range of Services: Azure is commended for providing a diverse array of services including network, compute, storage options, enabling users to access comprehensive solutions tailored to their specific requirements effectively. The wide range of services offered by Azure has been instrumental in supporting various businesses across different industries with their unique needs.

Complex Pricing Structure: Many users have frequently criticized Microsoft Azure for its overly complex pricing structure, citing numerous pricing models, lack of clarity in billing information, and high prices for certain resources. This complexity can pose challenges for organizations, especially small and mid-sized ones, impacting cost management.

Challenges with Documentation and Support: A common complaint among users is the inadequate documentation and support on Microsoft Azure. Users face difficulties in identifying resource costs, configuring firewalls, setting up services like Azure Kubernetes, and utilizing the Azure REST API. Improved documentation could enhance user experience significantly.

Steep Learning Curve: Feedback from users indicates a significant learning curve associated with advanced tasks on Microsoft Azure. They mention that in-depth research and hands-on experience are essential to effectively navigate the platform's complexities. Advanced configurations often require additional time investment due to outdated technical documentation.

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Windows Azure: Well Worth It!

Rating: 9 out of 10

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June 03, 2015

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Verified User

3 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Windows Azure is being used by numerous departments in our organization. It is being used in many different forms. It is used as a data transport between clients and as service apps for teams. It is also being used as a Virtual Private Network and to implement Single Sign On.

Pros and Cons

Windows Azure's scaling feature is really nice. It allows you to scale your instances up and down as load increases and decreases. This helps in reducing service costs.
Windows Azure offers SQL Server as a service which eases the pains of standing up a new SQL environment when needed. These SQL services can be replicated easily when needed - data and all. No need to do the work manually anymore.
Windows Azure offers many templates for standing up a virtual machine. You can select the operating system and the type of VM (SQL Server, Sharepoint, Puppet Labs, etc) and you will have your VM created in minutes.

Likelihood to Recommend

Windows Azure is best suited for applications that need ease of scale as it is very good at scaling. However, if your data is sensitive and needs to be encrypted in transit and at rest, you might want to consider a private cloud topology instead of a public one like Windows Azure.

Return on Investment

Windows Azure has had a positive impact on meeting our objective. It has allowed us to get-to-market much sooner than if we had stood up the hardware and hosted the applications in-house.
It has also allowed us to decrease FTE resources as it allows a single architect to stand up and maintain an entire enterprise environment pretty easily.
Our main challenge with windows Azure is identifying compute costs. Although we have tried to anticipate costs, there were times where we did not account for some compute time and came in very low with our estimates.

Alternatives Considered

We evaluated Amazon's cloud service before going with Microsoft's Windows Azure. We found that Windows Azure was more flexible and was more robust for what we needed. Amazon had a cheaper price point but did not offer as much on their product list.

Support Headcount Required

Likelihood to Renew

We have been very satisfied with Windows Azure and now a lot of our business depends on it as more teams are now deploying their applications into Azure. Our next step is to have our Infrastructure team move their resources to Azure. It will take awhile for that to happen but we are positive that it will.

Implementation Rating

It is very straightforward but you have to worry about when Microsoft wants to deprecate functionality or libraries.

Reliability and Availability

It has proven to be unreliable in our production environment and services become unavailable without proper notification to system administrators.

Moving to the Microsoft Azure™ Cloud

Rating: 9 out of 10

August 07, 2014

Amir Tabei

Vice President of Delivery

Aidmatrix (Logistics and Supply Chain, 11-50 employees)

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Verified User

2 years of experience

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We moved our entire SCM4Good platform and the SCM4Hunger Warehouse Management module to the Microsoft Azure Cloud. This provides important gains in performance, reliability, and redundancy. In particular, Microsoft’s Content Delivery Network, with nodes in more than 16 countries worldwide, closes the distance for many of our developing country users in terms of Internet geography, and has given noticeable response-time improvements. Nathan Au, Project Manager for FareShare Brighton and Hove noted: “We use Aidmatrix’ SCM4Hunger to help receive, warehouse and dispatch food to our hunger agencies every day. We know we run high transaction volumes, especially during peak times each week. When Aidmatrix moved to the Microsoft Azure Cloud it was like night and day for us. We saw dramatic performance improvement in response times on average of 4x faster, in some situations it went as high as 10x. It’s amazing what a difference running the same application on the Azure Cloud can make. Now we can focus that much more time on getting food to those who are hungry.”

Pros and Cons

Easily scalable- You can adjust your resources as your customers grow
Preview Portal is a one stop dashboard to your infrastructure, application and financial elements to your instances
Worldwide locations to release your VM's where your customers are located
Affordable - You can control your cost without investing in hardware or other resources

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are going to use Azure solely as VM farm then it's easy to migrate. If you plan to move a legacy application auch as Azure Native, migration can be tricky. For example we had one application that had a third party (blue rhino) element and it had some compatibility issues that we had to re-write our app. Another would be moving an Oracle database to Azure as it needs to be the new version of Oracle. Azure Cloud doesn't accept Oracle 9G.

Return on Investment

One of our key success stories with Azure is with our client who is in UK. When we migrated our application to Azure the performance level increased 10 fold. This is a direct quote from our customer - Nathan Au, Project Manager for FareShare Brighton and Hove noted: “We use Aidmatrix’ SCM4Hunger to help receive, warehouse and dispatch food to our hunger agencies every day. We know we run high transaction volumes, especially during peak times each week. When Aidmatrix moved to the Microsoft Azure Cloud it was like night and day for us. We saw dramatic performance improvement in response times on average of 4x faster, in some situations it went as high as 10x. It’s amazing what a difference running the same application on the Azure Cloud can make. Now we can focus that much more time on getting food to those who are hungry.”
Second success story is moving our Microsoft Replication Server to Azure Cloud for our SCM4Good Offline application. As our customers are in remote areas in Africa they need to sync their offline app with our replication server. The syncing time has dramatically reduced with Azure and produces less errors.

Alternatives Considered

We have been one of Microsoft's Azure beta users from the beginning and we worked closely with Microsoft in migration effort. We have used several cloud applications before including Rackspace. Azure's large footprint was the key for us as our applications are SaaS and used worldwide. The ability for me to quickly and easily move servers from West US, to Asia, West Europe, etc.. was very important.

Likelihood to Renew

Moving to Azure was and still is an organizational strategy and not simply changing vendors. Our product roadmap revolved around Azure as we are in the business of humanitarian relief and Azure and Microsoft play an important part in quickly and efficiently serving all of the world. Migration and investment in Azure should be considered as an overall strategy of an organization and communicated companywide.

Users and Roles

The entire Delivery Team who are consistent of Architects and Engineers on a daily basis code and support our SaaS applications hosted on Azure Cloud. There are three platforms; SCM4Good, SCM4Giving and SCM4Hunger. More than 50,000+ leading business, nonprofit and government partners leverage our supply chain management software to accelerate their humanitarian relief work. Programs include international aid & development, hunger relief, disaster relief, and more.

Support Headcount Required

Microsoft Azure is used by Architects, Sr. Architects and our Director of Engineering for creation of servers, deployments and migrations. I as the VP of Delivery use the preview portal for monitoring the resources and dashboard and also to estimate the cost and budget.

Business Processes Supported

Redundancy
Worldwide locations where I have footprint
Cost control

Innovative Uses

SCM4Good offline syncing with MS Replication on Azure

Future Planned Uses

We are not tapping into using Azure for Mobile Apps

Products Replaced

Yes

We have not finished completing all of our migration but we are replacing a cloud space we had with Rackspace for our sandboxes and a full rack co-location with another vendor. The reason was a strategic move to partner with Microsoft to have all of our application in Azure Cloud and delivered in multiple locations around the world.