Cost-effective for large organisations with a cloud-first IT strategy
March 25, 2022
Cost-effective for large organisations with a cloud-first IT strategy
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Azure Virtual Machines
Within our organization, we recently embarked on the completion of two large, highly complex technical programs involving the migration of a large number of applications, databases, and other IT services out of an on-premises data center and a Virtual Private Cloud, into Microsoft Azure public cloud. The use of Azure Virtual Machines allows us to host these migrated applications and services within our Azure tenant.
- Rapid elasticity.
- Cost effective.
- High availability.
- May not always be the most cost-effective option.
- The costs of higher-spec VMs may be prohibitive in some scenarios.
- Azure Virtual Machines are IaaS so some management is required. Vendor-managed SaaS may be preferable for certain applications.
- We saw a significant cost-saving as a result of exiting our expensive data-center and migrating services to Microsoft Azure Cloud.
- We saw further cost savings upon migrating remaining applications from our supplier-hosted Virtual Private Cloud to Microsoft Azure Cloud.
- As well as cost-savings from running production services in Azure, we are also able to run short-term cost-effective proofs-of-concept for which the infrastructure can be quickly deleted upon completion of the PoC, and we are no longer charged for it.
Do you think Azure Virtual Machines delivers good value for the price?
Yes
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