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Microsoft Azure
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About Microsoft Azure
Azure is a comprehensive computing platform, providing cloud infrastructure, products and services, developer tools, and innovations in data and AI. More than 95 percent of the Fortune 500 choose Azure. Azure has unique on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, and edge capabilities that offer you the flexibility to innovate anywhere.
Developers can use their favorite languages, open-source frameworks, and tools to code and deploy. Azure includes over 200 physical datacenters arranged into more than 60 regions and upholds our customers' expectations with data residency, compliance, and high availability. Modernize your IT, grow your business, and unlock insights from your data with the scale and security Azure provides.
Microsoft Azure pricing
Microsoft Azure has a free version and offers a free trial. Microsoft Azure paid version starts at US$1.00/month.
Starting Price:
US$1.00/month
Free Version:
Yes
Free trial:
Yes
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Microsoft Azure Reviews for UK Users
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Daniel
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 14/08/2019
AWS who?.....
Spinning up virtual environments and hosting software for clients and we use cold and hot storage for clients servers and backs with azure as they offer some of the best storage rates as compared to AWS. We can also spin up virtual domain and active directories for our clients to remove the heat and maintenance from small facilities on the edge of their environment that might not have a dedicated space for IT. Allowing us to now only offsite the IT but also the infrastructure.
Pros
I have found the best use for Azure is to off site the IT hardware for infrastructure, So now IT can not only have the team off site but now that off site team doesn't have to worry about the servers being touched by employees messing around in the network closets.Allowing entire companies to be managed off site.
Cons
Price on VMs, non transparent price, ease to setup redundancy...
Alternatives Considered
Amazon RDSSwitched From
Amazon RDSReasons for Switching to Microsoft Azure
Being that it is Microsoft it never closes and the people on the Azure team are always willing to help, and since it is Microsoft its almost like you have built in OS support. You can have most of your support in one location and but support contracts from one vendor.
Shivam
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 26/03/2024
Awesome experience with Microsoft Azure!
Overall Experience was great! and Really Easy to use and specially The study materials given in that was really a good experience was good. I am really happy!
Pros
There is ton's of feature I would like to tell. but most of the feature I usually used is about the AI and Virtual Machine's It was really easy to setup just have few clicks and it will setup!
Cons
Overall the experience was great but the problem... well there is problem, May be i am the only one I getting that. When I delete the Virtual Machine and Containers after that I didn't use azure for months because of my exam's suddenly I got mail from Microsoft and it says your bill amount 300 INR I was surprised why ? I deleted all machines but when I logged in there was some resources running on , To be honest idk it was a glitch or My mistake
Esra
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
Value for Money
2
Features
5
Ease of Use
1
Customer Support
1
3
Reviewed on 17/04/2019
Azure has a long way to go
Azure is developing itself continuously and I believe it will be better in the future.
Pros
I gave 5 stars to its features and functionality because Azure really tries hard to stay competitive in the market and it has most of the features that a cloud provider should offer. We use Azure to provide our services to our customers that work with Microsoft.
What I like the most about Azure is its AI tools. Azure is really successful when it comes to machine learning.
Cons
I will be a little bit cruel about Customer Support and Ease of Use.
We work with Azure as CSP partners. One day we had a problem with one of our servers and I couldn't even reach to support team to get help. Later I learned that since we are CSP partners we cannot directly get in touch with Azure team. Instead we should contact our local dealer to get support. It is tiring to involve bureaucracy to IT when all I wanted was to mount a disk to another server.
Be very careful when you test the servers. You will be charged for a full hour even if you keep the server alive for 5 minutes.
If you do not want to delete a resource accidentally you must lock it. I learned this lock feature from our local distributor but Azure should force you to take such cautions by putting the option directly to the interface. Maybe a little checkbox saying "Do you want to lock your resource?" would be nice.
The interface should be more user friendly. It is really complicated for the beginners. The partial windows that open in each step is confusing. It will be easier without the split structure.
Edwin
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4
4
Reviewed on 20/05/2024
Microsoft Azure PAAS
Initial setup is quite is easy but as you dive deeper, more understanding of the services and features is needed to maximise the best result of using this cloud platform
Pros
In Microsoft Azure, setting up you initial cloud environment quite easy. Microsoft Azure also provide a professional support if you needed help
Cons
Microsoft Azure can be complicated sometimes. With so many services and features, it's confusing which services is the best approach for different kind of scenarios.
junaid
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4
4
Reviewed on 30/03/2023
Microsoft Azure
I am a Azure Solution architect certifed. I am using Azure from past 7 years. Mostly i am using azure IAAS.
Pros
Azure Virtual Desktop is the most liked service by me. I was able to fullfill bussiness needs using AVD. It helped me to integrate with other azure services delpoyed in other subnets in a secure way.
Cons
One thing can be added and that is Chat Bot support. Like chatGPT inside the Azure portal. This will add a huge value to azure user experience.
