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Microsoft Azure

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.

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Recent Reviews

Microsoft Cloud option

9 out of 10
May 31, 2022
Have consulted multiple companies to migrate their DC or different workload like SAP to Azure. Azure provides full digital transformation …
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Azure poor customer service

1 out of 10
February 22, 2022
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 …
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Title For MS Azure

9 out of 10
September 29, 2021
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 …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Dynamic scaling (16)
    9.3
    93%
  • Elastic load balancing (16)
    8.8
    88%
  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (16)
    8.7
    87%
  • Pre-configured templates (16)
    7.0
    70%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Accounting Company, 1001-5000 employees
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Pricing

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Developer

$29

Cloud
per month

Standard

$100

Cloud
per month

Professional Direct

$1000

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://azure.microsoft.com/en…

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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Azure Tutorial For Beginners | Microsoft Azure Tutorial For Beginners | Azure Tutorial | Simplilearn

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Azure Fundamentals complete Training in telugu

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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

8.6
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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

Microsoft Azure Competitors

Microsoft Azure Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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 9.5.

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

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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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March 08, 2021

Azure rocks! great ROI, great capabilities, pleasure to work with

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Retail Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our company used Azure for the launch of the process automation platform. We later added a number of complementary services i.e. authentication, storage, telemetry, monitoring, Azure SQL and PowerBI. While this virtual platform was supported by a small team, it supported the whole organization. Our Azure stack was used as a virtual infrastructure in the IaaS and SaaS capacities.
Pros and Cons
  • Advanced support and telemetry capabilities
  • Intuitive UI integrated with multiple tools from Microsoft (i.e. Visual Studio, PowerShell)
  • Fantastic scalability and performance
  • Great integration capabilities across all services
  • Rapid implementations speed for multiple solution types
  • Fast pace of tech advancements means that technical documentation is often outdated
  • Some advanced configuration options require research and experimentation
  • Azure SQL syntax is a too far of a departure from the classic SQL
  • Infrastructure documentation and mapping capabilities are lacking
  • Microsoft's licensing model is too complex for a regular user to figure out
Likelihood to Recommend
Suited for most if not all scenarios. Some folks who are locked into AWS or GCP are probably locked into these ecosystems for some other reasons. Azure can handle all technical scenarios.
Microsoft Azure Feature Ratings
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Lower support costs - FTE reduction
  • Cost predictability and low overhead
  • Ability to pay for use only with tons of tools to adjust consumption (pay for what you use model)
Alternatives Considered
Evaluated both AWS and GCP for a similar set of use cases to realize that AWS required additional third-party add ons to be purchased for load balancing vs. Azure's out-of-the-box capabilities offered for free. GCP on the surface was lower cost but the cost of running enterprise solutions is a lot more than just the cost of operating VMs in the cloud. Google did not even come close to Azure in terms of capabilities and the business value offered.
Other Software Used
Support Rating
10
Accountable, goes the extra mile, and offers quick follow-up.
Premium Support
The premium support came with the license (I think). We did not purchase anything extra.
Bug Resolution
No
Exceptional Examples of Microsoft Azure Support
Yes, running security scans on our VMs as a follow-up to the performance-related incident.
Usability
9
Intuitive and deep UI with the ability to extend it via code (PowerShell, Visual Studio)
Easy Tasks
  • VM deployment
  • Monitoring and scalability
  • Network troubleshooting
  • Capacity planning
Difficult Tasks
  • Security management
  • Cloning VMs
  • Writing stored procedures for Azure SQL
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
Yes
Quick and responsive, allowed me to have a life outside of work.
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