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Azure Cloud Services

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What is Azure Cloud Services?

Azure Cloud Services is a cloud platform that enables users to create infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs. It enables users to build the web and cloud applications needed while also simplifying the management of applications with cloud services, and while…

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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)

  • $0.02 per hour
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Product Details

What is Azure Cloud Services?

Azure Cloud Services is a cloud platform that enables users to create infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs. It enables users to build the web and cloud applications needed while also simplifying the management of applications with cloud services, and while ensuring high availability. Users can: scale an environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs, automate operating system and application updates to increase security, and take advantage of integrated health monitoring and load balancing.

It features, provides & supports:
  • Available and scalable platform for applications and APIs. Accelerated application deployment.
  • Autoscaling of a cloud environment to optimize costs and improve performance
  • Integrated health monitoring and load balancing with dashboards and real-time alerts
  • A development experience supported by the Azure SDK, which integrates with Visual Studio

Azure Cloud Services Technical Details

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Azure Cloud Services is a cloud platform that enables users to create infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs. It enables users to build the web and cloud applications needed while also simplifying the management of applications with cloud services, and while ensuring high availability. Users can: scale an environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs, automate operating system and application updates to increase security, and take advantage of integrated health monitoring and load balancing.

Azure Cloud Services starts at $0.02.

Reviewers rate Scalability and Platform access control and Services-enabled integration highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Azure Cloud Services are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Addressing rapid growth or fluctuating workloads. Azure provides scalable infrastructure and services, allowing organizations to scale resources up or down based on demand. Migrating from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. Azure facilitates the modernization of legacy systems, reducing maintenance costs and improving overall agility.
  • Azure excels in providing scalable infrastructure and services. For example, organizations can use Azure Virtual Machines to dynamically adjust computing resources based on demand.
  • Azure's Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, such as Azure App Service, empower developers to focus on building applications without dealing with the underlying infrastructure.
  • Azure seamlessly integrates with on-premises environments, facilitating a hybrid cloud approach.
  • Azure Functions allows organizations to execute code in a serverless environment, triggering functions in response to events without the need to provision or manage servers.
  • Understanding and estimating costs can be intricate due to the multitude of services and pricing options.
  • Aligning and standardizing documentation formats, examples, and terminology would contribute to a more cohesive and user-friendly learning experience.
  • The Azure Portal, while powerful, can be overwhelming for new users, with a steep learning curve. Enhancing the user interface to make it more intuitive and simplifying navigation would help users of all experience levels work more efficiently.
Hosting large-scale enterprise applications that require scalable and reliable infrastructure. Azure's Virtual Machines and Azure App Service provide a robust foundation for deploying and managing these applications with ease. Azure's hybrid capabilities, including Azure Arc, enable seamless management and integration of resources across various environments.
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
86.36363636363637%
8.6
Ease of building user interfaces
80%
8.0
Scalability
90%
9.0
Platform management overhead
90%
9.0
Workflow engine capability
90%
9.0
Platform access control
90%
9.0
Services-enabled integration
90%
9.0
Development environment creation
80%
8.0
Development environment replication
90%
9.0
Issue monitoring and notification
80%
8.0
Issue recovery
80%
8.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
90%
9.0
  • Azure's services and automation capabilities contribute to operational efficiency.
  • Azure's scalability ensures optimal performance during peak demand periods and cost savings during off-peak times
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using IAAS and PAAS ,Azure Cloud Service 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 remotely, we are using it for storage of our client data storing client data previously is manual now we can use the storage as a container over internet which saves our time and cost and it's a secure platform.
  • It secures our data very well because of it's leading security and compliance for data privacy laws
  • The complexity of installing and managing servers on a network has been reduced, clearing more time for developers to build better solutions.
  • Web applications can be build easier and faster as well as secure by using IAAS and PAAS
  • Management activities related to team can be improved
  • More customized reporting ability , bad documentation and support
  • Pricing model is too complex
Microsoft Azure Cloud services is a good choice for hosting web applications, based on requirements it can be simple websites or complex web services as well as it provides automating application development and deployment pipeline.
It's less appropriate in case of cost-effective option for organizations with tight budget constraints. For very basic static websites, Microsoft Azure's offerings might be seen as overkill.
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
94.54545454545455%
9.5
Ease of building user interfaces
100%
10.0
Scalability
100%
10.0
Platform management overhead
90%
9.0
Workflow engine capability
80%
8.0
Platform access control
100%
10.0
Services-enabled integration
100%
10.0
Development environment creation
100%
10.0
Development environment replication
90%
9.0
Issue monitoring and notification
90%
9.0
Issue recovery
90%
9.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
100%
10.0
  • Azure allows businesses to automate many tasks and processes, which leads to increased efficiency and productivity
  • Increased data security it provides including data encryption
  • It's useful for businesses with fluctuating demand or those that are looking to expand quickly as a feature of improved agility.
I feel AWS offers a robust and versatile platform for cloud infrastructure and services. It's scalability, reliability array of tools make it a top choice for businesses of all sizes. AWS has better open source communities such as Linux, Jenkins and GitHub in comparison to Azure service cloud.
Ravindra Pawar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Azure DevOps, Azure AD, Azure MySQL and Azure Postgres Db for our software developments. As the Azure MySQL single server is in retirement path we are working on single server to flexible server migration since last 3 months with different methods suggested by Azure team but no method is successful yet
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure database services
  • Azure AD
  • Azure MySQL single server to flexible server migration
  • Database Migration Services
  • Azure VMs
Azure Cloud Services are well suited for web applications that needs scalability with minimal down time. It is less appropriate for small applications.
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
75.45454545454545%
7.5
Ease of building user interfaces
80%
8.0
Scalability
100%
10.0
Platform management overhead
100%
10.0
Workflow engine capability
50%
5.0
Platform access control
100%
10.0
Services-enabled integration
100%
10.0
Development environment creation
N/A
N/A
Development environment replication
N/A
N/A
Issue monitoring and notification
100%
10.0
Issue recovery
100%
10.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
100%
10.0
  • Scalability
  • Cost savings
  • Integration and migration challenges
We use Azure Cloud Services mainly for CI/CD purposes along with Azure Cloud Foundry for runtime.
Valarie Thomas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Cloud Platform has been a very effective tool to our entire organizations Cloud service management and the best performance monitoring capability for all our Clouds applications and even the easy compatibility testing and configuration management ability. The security management provided by this platforms is reliable with excellent access controls and permissions. The automation and orchestration provided by this platform is the best and makes it easily to integrate systems and customize its API. Highly collaborative tool and with excellent capabilities to data migration and change management.
  • Effective service management and performance monitoring capability.
  • Reliable security management with excellent access controls.
  • Best orchestration and easy configuration management.
  • Easy on compatibility testing and change management.
  • It is complex to migrate large volumes of data by new users.
  • With intuitive data recovery by new users, it will be superb.
  • Change management is not easy to new users.
I like the security provided by Microsoft Cloud Platform that gives us comfort that our Clouds data and applications are safe and secure with excellent backups and recovery capabilities and our entire organization depend on this platform for effective data migration. The system integrations with this platform are highly intuitive with the ease to customize its API and excellent performance monitoring capability to all our Clouds applications.
Platform-as-a-Service
N/A
N/A
  • Data recovery capabilities incase of any disaster.
  • Cost management through system integration.
  • A secure Cloud platform to our data and application from threats and attacks.
Microsoft Cloud Platform is a highly intuitive Cloud platform with an abundance of incredible features and data migration capabilities and changes management ability is reliable and no need to worry about data loss when moving data and information over this platform because of its data security, recovery and backup functionalities are very effective. It provides real-time information about rules that govern compliance and helps our organization with updates.
Jeniffer Luis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
High functionalities and effective services management across the Cloud services and API life cycle management capability and even the easy configuration management ability provided by Microsoft Cloud Platform is productive. The access control management via the platform is nice and network traffic control functions are very responsive and easy reports creation Microsoft platform with excellent load balancing capability.
  • Effective Cloud Application management software.
  • Security and access management.
  • Perfect testing management.
  • Configuration easy management.
  • Just on Cloud deployment for those new to the platform.
  • Multiple data reports creation.
  • Migrating a large amount of data.
The collaboration through Microsoft Cloud Platform is perfect, project data management and the remote accessibility is effective. The platform offers the best development portals and easy policy management solution and the interface configuration is very effective. The platform allows easy monitoring of various application performance and very secure tool for the personal data management.
Platform-as-a-Service
N/A
N/A
  • Remote data accessibility via the platform is effective.
  • Data security through the system is guaranteed.
  • Easy data recovery solution.
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