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Microsoft Azure Description

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows you to quickly develop, test and manage applications. Azure. Invent with purpose. With more than 100 services, you can turn ideas into solutions. Microsoft continues to innovate to support your development today and your product visions tomorrow. Open source and support for all languages, frameworks and languages allow you to build what you want and deploy wherever you want. We can meet you at the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud. Services for hybrid cloud enable you to integrate and manage your environments. Secure your environment from the ground up with proactive compliance and support from experts. This is a trusted service for startups, governments, and enterprises. With the numbers to prove it, the cloud you can trust.

Pricing

Free Version:
Yes
Free Trial:
Yes

Integrations

Reviews - 21 Verified Reviews

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Company Details

Company:
Microsoft
Year Founded:
1975
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/

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Product Details

Platforms
Windows
On-Premises
Type of Training
Documentation
In Person
Videos
Customer Support
Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Microsoft Azure Features and Options

Cloud Management Software

Access Control
Billing & Provisioning
Capacity Analytics
Cost Management
Demand Monitoring
Multi-Cloud Management
Performance Analytics
SLA Management
Supply Monitoring
Workflow Approval

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Provider

Analytics / Reporting
Configuration Management
Data Migration
Data Security
Load Balancing
Log Access
Network Monitoring
Performance Monitoring
SLA Monitoring

Cloud Storage Service

Access Control
Archiving & Retention
Backup
Data Migration
Data Synchronization
Encryption
File Sharing
Version Control

Microsoft Azure Lists

  • Name: Anis A.
    Job Title: Ownership Workflow Coordinator
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Ideal for Scalable and Flexible Cloud Infrastructure

    Date: Jan 22 2024

    Summary: In the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, Azure Virtual Machines offer a scalable and adaptable infrastructure solution. Its hybrid cloud capabilities, built-in security measures, and support for many operating systems make it an adaptable option for businesses with a range of infrastructure requirements.

    Positive: Azure Hybrid Services provide a smooth transition between cloud infrastructure and on-premises data centers. As a result, businesses may create hybrid solutions for application deployment, data storage, and backup.

    Negative: Effective usage of Azure virtual machines may need some understanding, particularly for those who are unfamiliar with cloud architecture. Users may need some time to become accustomed to Azure's extensive variety of services and customizations.

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  • Name: Rodney C.
    Job Title: Data Engineer
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 10,000 - 19,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Azure is your gateway to the cloud

    Date: Mar 16 2022

    Summary: I would not hesitate to continue to recommend and use Microsoft products and its offerings. Though far from perfect, the speed that things are being brought to market and updated is to be commended.

    Positive: As my company has started its cloud journey, Microsoft has been at the forefront of a number of our initiatives. It has a very large and integrated ecosystem that allows us to bolt on what is needed when it is needed with relative ease.

    Negative: The one thing that you must be careful about is your cost. While things are easy to implement, costs can also easily ramp up if not kept in check.

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  • Name: Vinay S.
    Job Title: Student
    Length of product use: Free Trial
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    A good cloud service that is rapidly evolving.

    Date: Mar 12 2022

    Summary: Businesses are becoming less dependent upon employees being on-premises in a central office, which adds reliability and uptime. Cloud-based web applications are easy to switch from on-premises to SaaS.

    Positive: I like Azure since they offer a lot of available locations that other cloud providers don't. It delivers features needed for microservices that are available and very easy to integrate. The same applications can be developed and deployed seamlessly.

    Negative: There is room for improvement in Azure's Cognitive Services, including using the most common templates. The cost of such an efficient cloud infrastructure could be a little higher, but that is the price you pay for such excellent services.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Customer Care Coordinator
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    This is by far the best app dev software I have used

    Date: Jun 21 2021

    Summary: Azure does everything you need for application development and implementation! I highly recommend using this software!

    Positive: This application in conjunction with Visual Studio is mwwwah just amazing. As a coder I can do everything I need with this software.

    Negative: Nothing this software is amazing! Anyone who is a dev please use.

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  • Name: Simon K.
    Job Title: Accountant
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    My Experience With MS Azure

    Date: Feb 23 2021

    Summary: With Microsoft Azure, we own and control the collection thereby offering better control and privacy. Whether it's creating VPNs or managing cloud data, this tool has it all and has been very effective.

    Positive: Offers best platform between on-premise and public cloud
    Setting up Azure, using and managing the different resources is easy.
    Azure is secure and scaling is easy.

    Negative: Microsoft Azure subscriptions are very high and not all enterprises can afford.

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  • Name: Hilda R.
    Job Title: Teacher
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Easiest to deploy cloud computing service

    Date: Nov 23 2020

    Summary: Overall Microsoft Azure is good cloud computing service for new users as it provides a handful free trial and detailed guides for cloud configurations and setup.

    Positive: Microsoft Azure is the easiest to deploy cloud computing service with lot of configuration options and in house cloud applications to work on. The free version and free trials availability is another plus with Microsoft Azure for small testing of applications and making mind for upgrading to paid services as per your need and configurations.

    Negative: Paid services are not much cost effective and the cloud data limits ends more quickly than expectations.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Service Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 20,000 or More
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    A great cloud infrastructure beyond Windows servers

    Date: Aug 24 2020

    Summary: Overall Microsoft Azure is a recommended cloud infrastructure. It is great for companies already in the Microsoft ecosystem and also a good choice for others who are looking for cloud migration.

    Positive: Microsoft Azure is a infrastructure as a service and is the default choice if looking to migrate application running on Windows server to cloud but it is more than just that. It provides a host of other services and supports Linux and container of you choice. The management interface is quite great and is welcoming for new users. High Scalability, reliability and availability make Azure a great choice.

    Negative: Pricing is a factor in which Azure needs to be more competitive in order to compete with similar services.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Software engineer
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 10,000 - 19,999
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Drag and click GUI workflow for NLP, Image Recognition, etc.

    Date: Aug 21 2020

    Summary: I can definitely see why people who are already using Azure for their cloud hosted solutions will also use Azure for its chatbots, NLP, image recognition, and other AI/ML functionalities etc. too.

    Positive: Normally, if you wanted to train a neural network from scratch, you'd have to first get ahold of a large, well-labeled dataset, split it into test, validation, and training sets, train your model on the training set, compare it to the result you get when you run the model on the other sets, do some hyperparameter tuning and correct for overfitting etc... super involved and kinda messy. Azure's already trained models for most common use-cases and you don't even need to know how it works.

    Negative: The drag and drop interface isn't completely intuitive. I was following the tutorial for some of them and had to try a second time (which arrow goes where etc) before getting it to work. Still not too bad.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Performant cloud infrastructure

    Date: Jul 12 2022

    Summary: Overall, Azure is a competitive offering in the cloud infrastructure space. Pricing is reasonable, performance is good, and it is highly configurable. However, support for non-Microsoft technologies and workflows is often second class.

    Positive: Highly configurable cloud infrastructure.
    Many available layers of redundancy.
    Competitive pricing.
    Free credits for getting started, if you have a visual studio subscription.

    Negative: Documentation is often hard to parse, especially for more complex setups suitable for production.
    More in depth usage often requires formal training through Microsoft certification.
    Poor built in bot protection.
    Over reliant on visual studio workflows.

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  • Name: Avinash D.
    Job Title: Consultant
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Easy to use Cloud Computing Platform

    Date: Mar 07 2022

    Summary: Overall, I have had a great experience using Microsoft Azure. The platform is extremely versatile and powerful, and has been able to meet the needs of my applications and workloads. Azure has also been very reliable and stable, with minimal downtime or performance issues. The support and documentation from Microsoft has also been excellent, and I have been able to find the answers to my questions quickly and easily.

    Positive: Azure offers competitive rates for its services, making it an affordable option for businesses of all sizes.

    Negative: There are many things that people do not like about Microsoft Azure. One of the main complaints is that the platform can be quite expensive. Additionally, there have been complaints about the reliability of the platform and its overall complexity.

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  • Name: Jason C.
    Job Title: Product Design Lead
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Under any operating system Microsoft Azure allows you to create apps and more

    Date: Mar 30 2021

    Summary: It has certain security problems that need to be solved urgently, but leaving that aside, the application is a good choice for all application or software developers, since it offers clear and accessible tools under a very simple platform to carry out projects perfectly in this area.

    Positive: This program allows us to properly build, develop and manage applications based on its global data network. It gives us the necessary tools to develop both applications and software for computers or mobile devices. Counting with implementation, collaboration and complete development management to cover all the details involved in these procedures.

    Negative: While the projects are in the development phase where any error is significantly important the application does not provide access control functions to the developer platform. Due to programming errors we have lost progress and the application does not offer an integrated restore or backup. Also, it does not have a data modeling section.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Marketer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Leading tool

    Edited: Mar 05 2021

    Summary: We have received good support with this respect from Microsoft. Good team that offers quick and helpful solutions.

    Positive: Microsoft Azure is a great cloud platform that we have used. It is easy to quickly set up most applications.

    Negative: If you have a weak network connection then expect latency.

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  • Name: Njambi K.
    Job Title: Company Admin
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Microsoft Azure Review

    Date: Feb 28 2021

    Summary: Microsoft Azure is our to go tool when it comes to creating remote desktops and the tool makes working remotely seamless. It is reliable and never lags especially with good network.

    Positive: I like a few things about this tool.
    First, setting up Azure is easy and the tool comes with great features.
    Creating remote desktop is easy and it makes working remotely seamless.
    The tool is very secure, reliable and scaling is easy.

    Negative: Having used Microsoft Azure for 2 years, I can say it is amazing. However, it does not come cheap.

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  • Name: Linda A.
    Job Title: Instructor
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Helps well in application development

    Date: Nov 27 2020

    Summary: Overall Microsoft Azure provides a good platform for application developers and built-in tools and guides are very helpful for the new users.

    Positive: Microsoft Azure is good cloud computing service and provides a reliable platform for the applications development and testing with numerous available testing kits and tools.

    Negative: Microsoft Azure is good for Windows systems but not available for other operating systems. It also lacks file sharing feature in cloud services.

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  • Name: Sadaf S.
    Job Title: Teacher
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Ease
    Pricing
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Good cloud computing but expensive

    Date: Nov 23 2020

    Summary: Overall Microsoft Azure is a good solution for small business setup over cloud computing , but it may not be a cost effective solution for many startup businesses.

    Positive: Microsoft Azure provides very good cloud computing services for students, professionals and businesses. Creation of cloud machine is easy and owner can easily access their cloud machines from any device. Limited trial credits are also available by Microsoft Azure.

    Negative: The high end virtual machines are very costly and there are also data and bandwidth limits for users.

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