Azure VMs offer flexibility beyond competition
June 17, 2023

Azure VMs offer flexibility beyond competition

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

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Virtual Machines

In our business we often have a need for VMs. Sometimes the VM needs to be reliable and always available. Sometimes it needs to be disposable. Sometimes we need to quickly upgrade the VM to respond to the increasing demand for the app running on that VM. All that is a a breeze to handle on Azure Virtual Machines.
  • Scalability
  • Flexibility
  • Reliability
  • Pricing
  • Detailed VM hardware customisation
  • Discounts for long-term use
  • Saved one of our product launches by enabling instant upgrading of hardware resources
  • Enabled flexibility in managing our VM farm
  • Reduced profits slightly due to overall costs
Azure Virtual Machines offer unparalleled flexibility in provisioning, managing and upgrading the VM instances, both manually and programmatically. AVM offer very granular billing options and enables high costs optimisations (while still being costly). The other competitors I mentioned are very good at offering dead-cheap VMs. But if you need anything beyond that, especially for big computing, you need Azure Virtual Machines.

Do you think Azure Virtual Machines delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Azure Virtual Machines's feature set?

Yes

Did Azure Virtual Machines live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Azure Virtual Machines go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure Virtual Machines again?

Yes

If you’re looking for a dead cheap VM, Azure Virtual Machines is not for you. However, if you’re looking for a very powerful VM to use short-term, or you need a VM that’s flexible and can be upgraded or downgraded within minutes (and even programmatically) then Azure Virtual Machines is very well suited for that.

Azure Virtual Machines Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
10
Management console
8
Live virtual machine backup
10
Live virtual machine migration
9
Hypervisor-level security
7