Microsoft Azure can get you to where you need to be
April 01, 2025

Microsoft Azure can get you to where you need to be

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Azure

We utilize Microsoft Azure for services such as Entra ID, Key Vaults, Blob Storage, and PIM. The need to redundantly host services across CSPs is alleviated by utilizing Microsoft Azure as one of our CSPs. Whether it be managing users and groups, or hosting publicly and privately available files using Blob Storage.

Pros

  • Key Vault - Simple to use and limit access
  • Entra ID - Quite possibly the best directory service to use due to its popularity and extensive documentation
  • Blob Storage - Simple and easy to configure and use to provide publicly available assets

Cons

  • PIM - This could use a touch up to allow for more granular customization without having to create custom roles.
  • Sentinel - A great SIEM product, but this also could use work, possibly with multiple baked in KSQL queries depending on the products you attach.
  • Support - Support needs vast improvement, especially with the ability for users to be able to submit support tickets as long as they have certain PIM roles assigned but not activated at the moment.
  • Blob Storage is extremely cheap and very reliable, so the ROI on being able to keep some assets within the Microsoft Azure environment versus having to use AWS S3 is nice and avoids having to use cross-service IAM.
  • Entra ID - limiting yourself to not having more than one directory service saves money and time.
  • Key Vault - Similar to AWS Secrets Manager but on a higher scale and extremely easy to configure and manage has saved me time and money,
Microsoft Azure is a leading provider for a solid reason, their products are for the most part pretty great. Yes, they need work in a lot of areas, but overall you can achieve anything you need to do with Microsoft Azure. The main concern is cost of achieving your projects as some Microsoft Azure services are much cheaper if you host them on their equivalents in AWS or GCP
AWS takes the cake here just due to how simple it is to configure IAM roles, users, and policies. Microsoft Azure is nearly neck-and-neck and could probably overtake them in the near future. Splunk for logging isn't that great and Microsoft Azure does a solid job but they could do with a UI update to make it easier on the eyes.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Azure go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Azure again?

Yes

If you need a bulletproof directory service, Entra ID is the way to go which is supported via Microsoft Azure. This allows you to easily handle users, groups, devices, and authentication such as SSO and user provisioning through SCIM. If you're looking to host virtual machines and manage networks, Microsoft Azure needs a lot of work to be as user friendly as other CSP providers such as AWS.

Microsoft Azure Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
5.4
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
1
Dynamic scaling
5
Elastic load balancing
5
Pre-configured templates
5
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
7
Operating system support
8
Security controls
5
Automation
5

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