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Azure storage, a great disk solution that comes with great features and a growing ecosystem
November 17, 2021

Azure storage, a great disk solution that comes with great features and a growing ecosystem

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Managed Disks

We had a need to have highly available storage in the cloud that was easy to manage and could scale to our business needs. While we had looked into Amazon, we went with Azure as we had a larger footprint in the ecosystem and we liked the features and functionality it provided. Today, we use it to help manage our VMs, as well as help, provide redundant storage for our data lake retention
  • Redundancy and high availability is best in class
  • The ability to manage this in one central place and the Azure ecosystem integration is great.
  • Infrastructure as code and the ability to manage and maintain has become best in class.
  • As Azure is evolving a lot of the new features takes a bit to roll out to manage disk.
  • It takes a bit of time to provision disk and can be tedious for smaller projects.
  • I wish there were more options on the types of the disk that are available that would allow us to use it for smaller projects and pocs.
  • High Availability and redundancy
  • Cost
  • Easy of set up and replication
  • It has allowed us to adjust to based on business needs
  • It took us a bit of time to ramp up and change our model to support the new technology
  • We have better stability and be able to replicate the same solution several times
  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
It is a cleaner setup since we are already bought into the Microsoft Infrastructure. Without the ecosystem they have built at Microsoft, we would not have such a seamless experience. While AWS is simpler to use, it is not set in the same model as how the Azure system is built and both tools can't be seen as a one to one comparison

Do you think Azure Managed Disks delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Azure Managed Disks's feature set?

Yes

Did Azure Managed Disks live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Azure Managed Disks go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure Managed Disks again?

Yes

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
The managed disk is ideal for Virtual Machine propagation and ingestion project. From the VM side, we use it to roll out connected disks for our VMs. and for Ingestion, we use it for sensitive files and high availability files that are needed by multiple sources. These two use cases have worked really well for us and have allowed us to scale up and down as our needs and wane and ebbed. The only thing I wish was that this would be cheaper and easier for smaller-scale projects.