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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.

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A powerful platform to integrate Microsoft services

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 24, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our organization uses Microsoft Azure cloud platform for the enterprise-level workflows. For example, we integrate it with Microsoft infrastructure, like Office365, Active Dir...
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Xiang Li
Director - Information Technology
Director
nyit
Microsoft Azure3 years of experience

Microsoft Azure - Enterprise Power and Complexity Controlled.

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 5, 2025
Vetted ReviewVerified User
As an AI product management technical architect, I leverage Microsoft Azure as our primary cloud platform to deploy and manage our machine learning models at scale, utilizing ...
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Verified user
Director
Microsoft Azure7 years of experience

Quick scaling with easy integration

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 25, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Microsoft Azure houses the infrastructure for public facing websites
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Suzanne Desmond
Consultant - Engineering
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Platinum Technologies
Microsoft Azure7 years of experience

Microsoft Azure advantages

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
More than half of our servers are currently running in Microsoft Azure. This migration to Microsoft Azure has been carried out in phases. At present, our network is hybrid. In...
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Verified user
Administrator
Microsoft Azure4 years of experience

Microsoft Azure is going places

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 22, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I purchase and keep track of licenses for users. Create sharepoint sites, add and remove users etc. Microsoft Azure is easy to use once you start using it. The security aspect...
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Krista Merker Reilly
Manager - Information Technology
Sr. Manager, IT
Personal Care Products Council
Microsoft Azure6 years of experience
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Awards

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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

8.5
Avg 8.2
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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.

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 From Top Reviewers

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A powerful platform to integrate Microsoft services

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 24, 2025
XL
Xiang Li
Director
nyit (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Azure
3 years of experience
Pros
  • API Management
  • Connect the existing on-premises systems to cloud solutions
  • Its cloud computing, analytics, and storage services.
Cons
  • The support is weak
  • Crossing platform issues
  • Deployment issues

Quick scaling with easy integration

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 25, 2025
SD
Suzanne Desmond
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Platinum Technologies (Information Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Azure
7 years of experience
View profile
Pros
  • Ability to scale out the environment
  • Easy to find the details of each resource cost
  • Ability to separate roles
Cons
  • The cost of each resource is easy to find but the amount is not as clear when it is first setup
  • Along lines of cost, the costs in “marketplace” should be included in the billing to Microsoft and not separate

Microsoft Azure is going places

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 22, 2025
KM
Krista Merker Reilly
Sr. Manager, IT
Personal Care Products Council (Non-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Azure
6 years of experience
View profile
Pros
  • manage users
  • easy to edit policies
Cons
  • the users b/t exchange and cloud -
  • better Microsoft Graph management
  • improve the Bulk Changes feature - bulk add users AND the sharepoint sites they are a member of

Microsoft Azure - Enterprise Power and Complexity Controlled.

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 05, 2025
Verified User
Director in Product Management
Hospitality Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Azure
7 years of experience
Pros
  • Enterprise-grade security and compliance.
  • Seamless integration with existing Microsoft products and services.
  • Hybrid cloud capabilities allowing workloads to run both on-premises and in the cloud.
Cons
  • User experience across Azure Portal interfaces lacks consistency and can be unintuitive.
  • Pricing structure remains unnecessarily complex and difficult to predict.
  • Documentation quality varies dramatically between services, with some newer offerings having significant gaps.

Microsoft Azure advantages

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 25, 2025
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Azure
4 years of experience
Pros
  • Microsoft Azure is highly scalable and flexible. You can quickly scale up or down additional resources and computing power.
  • You have no longer upfront investments for hardware. You only pay for the use of your computing power, storage space, or services.
  • The uptime that can be achieved and guaranteed is very important for our company. This includes the rapid maintenance for security updates that are mostly carried out by Microsoft.
  • The wide range of capabilities of services that are possible in Microsoft Azure. You can practically put or create anything in Microsoft Azure.
Cons
  • It requires knowledge of Microsoft Azure to set everything up properly once the environment becomes somewhat more complex.
  • Microsoft Azure is a fairly dynamic environment that is still changing at a rapid pace. In most cases, these are expansions or improvements to Microsoft Azure's capabilities. However, this means that you must constantly keep your Microsoft Azure knowledge up to date.
  • Microsoft Azure does not always offer functional support for migrating old legacy apps to the cloud. This is also related to the vendors of the legacy apps, but there is still potential room for a good solution.
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