Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure support and infrastructure speed is a lot better than other hostings like Google Platform. It allows the capability with user friendly environment to engage and work with features. Microsoft Azure has great features with Tunnels, VM, Storage and DNS. Microsoft server 2019 can interact in a great way with Azure cloud.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Microsoft Azure is unique in its capabilities with Cloud Computing, Servers management, working with VPN tunnels and DNS records. It allowed us the capability to connect our multi-site that we were unable to do with local setup.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Microsoft Azure cost is high with Traffic, VM and other features. It should be reduced to an affordable packages

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would suggest anyone buying Azure subscription to go through CSP process with any vendor to make sure the environment is properly managed. If you are managing in house then you/your engineers should be Microsoft Azure Certified

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

1- Proactive and responsive support. We've worked with most other cloud providers - Amazon, Google, Oracle. Amazon Web Services' customer support is a black hole and their documentation is worthless. Google and Oracle are better, but Azure's support is responsive and their docs are pretty good. 2- Azure's Web UI is pretty easy to work with

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1- The product is constantly evolving both in terms of features and user-friendliness. 2- Microsoft effectively tunes for their own applications 3- Microsoft Azure functions can run be hosted and run inside of Kubernetes. This allows solutions based on Azure functions cloud agnostic. 4-Azure Active Directory is the top of the list. No organization can be without a robust and capable identity management system for the users. having the identities managed in the cloud means that your people can potentially be authenticated to more systems everywhere, allowing more work to get done more securely.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I know cost is a barrier for many organizations. The retail prices may seem high and may be out of reach now, but with careful planning and negotiation, along with a realistic sense of what you can do now verses what you could be doing in the future, the costs should even out.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

During our initial stages with Azure (years ago), we had several hybrid scenarios going, where we had portions of a service on-premises while other portions were in Azure. Active Directory was a good example. The Hybrid story got better and better and made "jumping to the cloud" less of an abrupt jump and more of a careful walk. The Hybrid ease has probably only gotten better since then.

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Microsoft's seamless integrations with all their other technology make it a great choice for a cloud platform. This integration capability is what sets it apart from other cloud or infrastructure software providers.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ease of administration using their graphical web interface.

What do you dislike most about this product?

the complexity of scripting and automation in Powershell.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Work closely with Microsoft to find out your needs and the integration requirements.