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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

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

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)
    8.8
    88%
  • Pre-configured templates (16)
    7.1
    71%

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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 Training | Azure Tutorial | Intellipaat

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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 9.4.

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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Reviews

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you need to do something in the Cloud, Azure is the Cloud developer/storage/application of choice. Between the embrace and support of the open-source community through Github, providing non-Microsoft operating systems and development stacks in the Azure Marketplace with pre-configured templates to enable single-click deployment and provisioning of test or production environments, single click SQL instances that do not require you to host and maintain SQL server, Azure can do it, and do it well.
Apurv Doshi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As Microsoft Azure is [doing a] really good with PaaS. The need of a market is to have [a] combo of PaaS and IaaS. While AWS is making [an] exceptionally well blend of both of them, Azure needs to work more on DevOps and Automation stuff. Apart from that, I would recommend Azure as a great platform for cloud services as scale.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Azure's overall usability has been better than expected. Often times vendors promise the world, only to leave you with a run-down town. Not the case with our experience. From an implementation perspective, all went perfect, and from the user-facing experience we have had no technical issues, just some learning curve issues that are more about "why" than "how".
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall it is good for using service. For starter I suggest to go for it. It has very good user experience so user can directly get to know about the product. Pricing section is little bit weird because I still get confused in it except everything is good to go.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I would rate it an eight, only because of its complexity. We needed to participate in Official MS Azure trainings in order to understand better and be able to navigate easily on the platform. It could be more intuitive.
Brandon Holbrook | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure is intuitive. The GUI takes little effort to get used to. There's some work that still needs to be done to get it better but right now it's pretty good. Windows shop users will find it very easy to use with their existing ecosystem but Linux users will be frustrated with the lack of features.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Azure is a robust, secure and easy to use platform. Efficient solution for managing the servers and services on cloud. Storage archiving is seamless and easy. If old data is not frequently used then we can easily move this in hot storage. Azure's access services are pretty quick. This provides easy download and upload features.
August 20, 2019

Microsoft Azure Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Fairly easy to manage with a lot of small exceptions. Interface blades can seem to branch out many levels deep making changes and available settings difficult to find. There are seemingly endless and obscure gotchas and undocumented limitations and pitfalls that can only be realized after the fact.
August 20, 2019

Machine Learning

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure is easy to use and understand. Where it gets complicated, is when you are using complicated algorithms and apply machine learning. The user interface is intuitive and easy to use.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Scalability and security are two main values which Microsoft Azure brings, On top of that, it also has lots of hybrid options and great support. Not to mention heaps of end-to-end services that Microsoft can integrate with. These values make Microsoft Azure the go-to cost-effective hassle-free enterprise-grade cloud solution for large organizations.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Coming from a Microsoft background, the terminology and concepts were very familiar with me and I think that with the marketing and speed they are providing on updates to their tools it's been a great partnership for a lot of the projects we've been working on. Additionally, having some on premise version of the offering helped us migrate.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Azure is one of the easiest clouds to get up and running. Very intuitive interfaces, very intuitive dashboards and very detailed and useful reports. Easy to deploy and manage. Very good functionalities. Can monitor infrastructure resource usage through such management tools as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Cloudtrail for tracking user activity and API usage.
Daniel Cauley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Azure is simpler than AWS with as much function and better support. It's also cheaper to buy if you partner with the right partners. It has a much cleaner interface and is well laid out. Easy to integrate with large companies that are already running on Microsoft and much easier to bring everything over native.
August 16, 2019

Crystal Clear Azure

Alfred Brock | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I give it a high rating for usability because, from my standpoint, it is generally intuitive, fits nicely into our work flow and is easy to use. Once a user is introduced to the system and instructed in its use they take off with it with little further assistance necessary other than normal maintenance.
August 14, 2019

Azure overview

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's relatively straightforward to get set up but can be difficult to find more complicated frameworks.
Adam Farrell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Azure might be a bit overwhelming thanks to the complex environment consisting of a vast number of assets included. It certainly involves a learning curve for a thorough understanding of the menu structure, but at the end of the day, the savings and advantages are worth the initial hassle.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure is very intuitive. Easy to use, great interface. A lot of features. Everything is central and easily managed. I can create new apps, update existing apps, scale up or down on resources, and the list just goes on. So many cool features. Azure has made life so easy.
August 11, 2019

Benefits of Azure

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The portal is easy to use, although it is recommended to use ARM templates or Teraform to manage/automate the infrastructure.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Such a great platform for a novice or expert to use. There is significant training available to learn how to do complex things with little to know background doing them before. Especially if you live close to a Microsoft training center, they offer many courses for free on site. Even if not, the virtual training they provide is also free and plentiful.
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