Azure rocks! great ROI, great capabilities, pleasure to work with
March 08, 2021
Azure rocks! great ROI, great capabilities, pleasure to work with
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Azure
Our company used Azure for the launch of the process automation platform. We later added a number of complementary services i.e. authentication, storage, telemetry, monitoring, Azure SQL and PowerBI. While this virtual platform was supported by a small team, it supported the whole organization. Our Azure stack was used as a virtual infrastructure in the IaaS and SaaS capacities.
- Advanced support and telemetry capabilities
- Intuitive UI integrated with multiple tools from Microsoft (i.e. Visual Studio, PowerShell)
- Fantastic scalability and performance
- Great integration capabilities across all services
- Rapid implementations speed for multiple solution types
- Fast pace of tech advancements means that technical documentation is often outdated
- Some advanced configuration options require research and experimentation
- Azure SQL syntax is a too far of a departure from the classic SQL
- Infrastructure documentation and mapping capabilities are lacking
- Microsoft's licensing model is too complex for a regular user to figure out
- Lower support costs - FTE reduction
- Cost predictability and low overhead
- Ability to pay for use only with tons of tools to adjust consumption (pay for what you use model)
Evaluated both AWS and GCP for a similar set of use cases to realize that AWS required additional third-party add ons to be purchased for load balancing vs. Azure's out-of-the-box capabilities offered for free. GCP on the surface was lower cost but the cost of running enterprise solutions is a lot more than just the cost of operating VMs in the cloud. Google did not even come close to Azure in terms of capabilities and the business value offered.
Do you think Microsoft Azure delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft Azure's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft Azure live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Microsoft Azure go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Azure again?
Yes
Microsoft Azure Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
The premium support came with the license (I think). We did not purchase anything extra.
Yes, running security scans on our VMs as a follow-up to the performance-related incident.
Using Microsoft Azure
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Convenient Feel confident using | None |
- VM deployment
- Monitoring and scalability
- Network troubleshooting
- Capacity planning
- Security management
- Cloning VMs
- Writing stored procedures for Azure SQL
Yes - Quick and responsive, allowed me to have a life outside of work.