Windows Azure - Futuristic Public Cloud
December 16, 2016

Windows Azure - Futuristic Public Cloud

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Windows Azure

We are using Azure to host our mortgage application.
The reason to choose Azure was:
a) We can't afford to have any downtime of our application
b) At any point of time, user should need feel that application is behaving slow.
c) We would like to focus more on our line of business application instead of investing time in monitoring and deployment.
  • Azure service fabric is a great platform if you have plan to use micro service framework.
  • Azure Active directory is cool if you don't want to manage your own sts.
  • New Azure management portal is much better than old one.
  • Automating the build using ARM template is still not that state forward, we end up using power shell.
  • Consistent user experience irrespective of traffic condition means lots of happy customer.
  • 0 downtime for an application is huge plus fro any business.
  • Since it's the same c# and .net language, there is hardly any learning curve and hence can utilize the same skill set.
Amazon has more or less all the features like Azure. With Microsoft being a technology company, for any new feature in Microsoft, the integration will be seamless.
Well Suited: For any application with complexity ranging between low to medium, Azure has lot to offer. One can use LogicApp state forward instead of writing all the custom connectors as it does provide so many connectors out of the box. If you are looking for 0 downtime for an application, Azure is the go to guy.

Needs Improvement: If you are not a Microsoft shop then there is still very little you can do here apart from using VM.