Microsoft Azure Review
March 09, 2017
Microsoft Azure Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Azure
I have used for my academic project and then my previous company. So my intention is just to learn.
Benefits are: Only need to deploy the application and the rest is a Microsoft managed, hassle free environment. No need to worry about your Windows patching and updates; server running out of space, technical troubleshooting and maintenance cost. Time is saved in building up the servers and hardware non-utilization has been eliminated.
- Lift-and-shift: So you can move your application in azure very easily.
- Per-use pricing: As with other cloud services, Windows Azure charges the subscriber on per use basis. What this means is that if your application needs only two instances in the beginning, you will only pay for these two instances. At the moment your application starts needing four instances for example, you will start getting charged for those extra instances. This pricing model makes Windows Azure a great platform for applications that occasionally need a lot more resources than normal. It completely eliminates the need to purchase expensive hardware and software for building your applications.
- DownTime is very minor. It's been really reliable.
- Only Windows-centric applications are supported by Microsoft for technical assistance; hence it could be a tedious task to determine where exactly the fault is on an open source application running though windows Azure.
- It needs a better User Interface to compete with its competitor.
- More details in dashboard. It should be managed in a more subtype way.
- I still expect more platform independency from Azure. Also more support for Linux machines. I would also love to see SAAS in Azure. Also, I think pricing is high.
- Overall, they provide a good IAAS product and also are leveraging their SQL Server and other products in Azure as well...so it's a nice solution all-in-all. I also feel like they don't have a ton of extraneous services like AWS does, so they are filtering a bit of the noise out.