Microsoft Azure: a great IAAS partner
February 19, 2019
Microsoft Azure: a great IAAS partner
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Azure
As a marketing services provider, we have lots of legacy applications that were built atop the .NET framework. As we expanded to offer cloud services to better serve our clients, we decided to go with Microsoft Azure as the PAAS partner. Not only does it allow us to use Microsoft servers in the backend but also Linux as part of our backend infrastructure. We use SQL Database servers for our data layer and it was an easy choice for us to leverage Microsoft Azure as the common platform.
- Using Microsoft Azure we now have the ability to expand our product offerings using this cloud service.
- Being elastic in the cloud means, we only have to pay for data and usage as per our consumption needs.
- Using Microsoft Azure as IAAS means that we are freed from the needs of hosting our hardware locally. Important considerations like security and software patching are all handled remotely.
- The pricing for their services need to be made more competitive in comparison to Amazon AWS.
- The product requires a large learning curve and the technical documentation can sometimes be difficult and cumbersome to follow.
- Microsoft Azure has been a good partner for us, even though we're a small to mid-size company. We've received good first and second tier support with any of our technical issues. Overall, I think using Azure has been a step in the right direction for us.
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