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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Composite Score
9.0 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10
Category
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
9.0 /10

What is Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?

Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines won the following awards in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category

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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?

1% Negative
4% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Fair
  • Security Protects

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Load Balancing

88

Cloud Integration

87

Access Management

87

Cloud Backup

87

Analytics and Reporting

86

Data Migration

86

Encryption and Decryption Support

86

Systems Performance Management

86

Regulatory Compliance

85

SLA Management

85

Capacity Management

85

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Ease of IT Administration

86

Business Value Created

86

Quality of Features

86

Breadth of Features

85

Availability and Quality of Training

85

Usability and Intuitiveness

85

Ease of Implementation

84

Ease of Data Integration

84

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

83

Ease of Customization

82

Vendor Support

82

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Alexis S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Retail
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Makes sense for practical use.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Azure is Linux friendly, which was a surprise for me in my earlier days with this platform. We have successfully ran different Linux and Ubuntu distributions on Azure in the past, with success.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I am a big fan of Microsoft Learn. This is because I have successfully in time past found solutions to problems encountered while using Microsoft Azure. Also, this is very critical because of the slow response rate of the Microsoft Azure support team.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Customer Service response rate is slow and options of contact with customer service agents are limited as well.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This depends primarily on the need, experience and outlook of the team looking to deploy Microsoft Azure.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Jonathan H.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Excellent cognitive services for innovation

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

What differentiates Microsoft Azure from other similar products are the cognitive services. There are two services in particular that appear to be unique: those are Bing Search cognitive services, and the format of the speech to text API.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favourite aspect of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform is the cognitive search feature, which returns relevant results from Bing search, which can be fed into finding a relevant image from a contextual text search.

What do you dislike most about this product?

What I dislike most about Microsoft Azure is the complexity of the reporting services. To date, I have not managed to figure out how to have simple reports detailing the usage of products. I also dislike the support services of Microsoft Azure, which were slow and completely unable to resolve an issue.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

At the date of writing, Microsoft Azure offers $200 of free credit for 30 days. I recommend anyone considering Microsoft Azure to take advantage of this, to get an idea if this is a good architectural fit for you.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

Cons

  • Less Efficient Service
  • Less Effective Service
  • Less Caring

Eunice A.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2022

Easier to implement and use than the competition

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

A wide community of users and support, you can never get stuck with anything when it comes to Azure.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I can use the azure app to check my workload and deployment without having to do anything else

What do you dislike most about this product?

There are more free and longer to use services with GCP than Azure but all the same, the service is good. Most importantly I think Africa should have more zones and regions

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Azure is reliable and good. Your learning curve is not steep. The platform is a home to almost all types of workload. Just explore the free one month and see

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Effective Service

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