Why you should or should not use Windows Azure for your organization
Updated March 16, 2015

Why you should or should not use Windows Azure for your organization

Pedram Soheil | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Windows Azure

We use Windows Azure for several customer facing websites, as well as our internal users.
  • Load Balancing
  • Scaling up or down depending on visitor traffic to web based system
  • Ease of deployment to the Azure Cloud
  • Quite a few hours of down times this past month (8 hours of down time)
  • SSL Support still needs work
  • Backup and restore of Azure SQL needs to be improved on
  • Reduces the need to manage hardware
  • Less frequent backups needed
Amazon Elastic Cloud
The main question to ask yourself is can you live with down time or not.

Using Windows Azure

3 - We maintain our windows azure servers by utilizing a network administrator, a database administrator and a custom application developer or deployment specialist.You could however potentially only have a single person be in charge of Windows Azure as the administrative dashboard is quite intuitive and makes most deployment and maintenance tasks as easy as 1,2,3!
The benefits of using Windows and SQL Azure far outweigh the disadvantages.