




Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

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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91 Likeliness to Recommend
99 Plan to Renew
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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Fair
- Security Protects
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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Alexis S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
Makes sense for practical use.
Likeliness to Recommend
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
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Jonathan H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Entertainment
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2022
Excellent cognitive services for innovation
Likeliness to Recommend
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
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Eunice A.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2022
Easier to implement and use than the competition
Likeliness to Recommend
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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