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Azure Virtual Machines Overview

What is Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions: development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter with support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, and SAP.

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Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions: development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter with support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, and SAP.


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Divyansh T.
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Divyansh T.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Virtualized computer with flexible on-demand computing capacity"
The best thing about the Azure Virtual Machines is there's no need to purchase and manage the physical infrastructure and it can support various op...
Dishank R.
DR
Dishank R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Azure Virtual machine deployment and cost optimization"
Easy to create and deploy Virtual machine cost optimization maintenance done by Azure. Easy to use. Quick creation and deployment of Virtu...
Carlos R.
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Carlos R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Azure VM are very good as agents for Azure Pipelines, also some of them have nested virtualization"
Azure Virtual Machines are one of the few (and the only ones that I've found) to provide virtual machines with nested virtualization for x86. This ...
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

1. Managed Virtual Machine Uptime Is 99.99%

2. Consistent Performance

3. Linux & IT Apps Available to direct install

4. Microsoft Authentication Is Very Secure

5. Easy To Use Dashboard

6. Worldwide Data centers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

1. Free tier services features are limited

2. Free tier virtual machines very bad & scary experience.

3. Free B1s VM crashes every time.

4. Billing Management is complicated for beginners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

After activating a virtual machine, many things related to it get activated which increases your billing cost rapidly. But when I took to customer care support regarding increased billing, they waived my bills and they explained about billing management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Piyush K.
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual machine is easy and quick to deploy. Azure offers lots of SKUs of VM. It is a backup option, and data is always protected here because it does not offer built-in storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual machine is still not available on Mac and Android Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a cloud computing solution. In case you want to host any application in the cloud and simultaneously want control on the OS level. This is the best solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suraj R.
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Products used within Microsoft Azure Compute: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure App Service, Azure Virtual Machines
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Compute?

Virtual Machine, AKS Infrastructure as a service is part of compute Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Compute?

It was slow initial days , but updating nsg etc takes time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?

VM costing, selfhosted agent as VM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Megha R.
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure offers multiple VM guest flavors, compute instance sizes etc.

Azure also provides the ability to deploy custom VM image and use it for VM creation.

Azure VMs can be created and removed quickly, as and when needed.

It offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Excellent customer support from the Azure team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure is a bit expensive. Other than that, in my opinion, I have not found any flaws with this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some problems solved are,

- The pay-as-you-go pricing model has reduced capital expenditure.

- Hybrid cloud.

- Helps in migrating VMs from on-premises to the cloud.

- Backup and recovery.

- Managing resources from a single portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Its very friendly to use the portal.

The user experience is very good compared with other cloud platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Pricing is a main consideration on the cloud platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing the virtual machines and ease of access to our production with any endpoint device through browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Azure is a complete platform for building, deploying and managing applications and cloud services. You get all the features you need with the Azure PaaS & SaaS platform with a range of pricing options that make it easy to cherry-pick the required cloud offering for your business. AlsoAzure cloud is back with up to 99.99% SLA & the Microsoft name you can trust. From individual learning paths in Azure to outstanding customer service, Azure has it all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Azure sometimes has excessive and mandatory steps such as security defaults, multifactor authentication, and PII information which sometimes feel a bit excessive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

One simple solution to manage thecomplexity of your IT requirement. Azure provides robust and flexible solution for your organizational needs, with pay-as-you-go pricing you can access all features whenever you need them also azure provides seamless intigretion with your onpremice enviroment to maximize effencieny and give you peace of mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carlos R.
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual Machines are one of the few (and the only ones that I've found) to provide virtual machines with nested virtualization for x86. This allows us to use them as build agents to create Linux images for WSL using QEMU to build them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Compared to AWS they are generally more expensive and are more difficult to manage. Or the administration is very different from AWS that is the technology I am used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allow us to build Linux images in x86 and ARM64. The differentiator is the support for nested virtualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Scalability and Ease of Use. Setting up virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines is a straightforward process, and the service provides a variety of customization options to ensure that each virtual machine meets the specific needs, and highly scalable infrastructure that can be dynamically adjusted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual Machines has some limitations and potential drawbacks: the complexity of the Azure Virtual Machines platform is a challenge for organizations that are not familiar with cloud computing or have limited IT resources, the cost of using Azure Virtual Machines can quickly add up, especially for organizations that have a large number of virtual machines or use the service for resource-intensive applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure Virtual Machines provide a range of benefits like reducing IT Costs, Improving Performance, Increasing Flexibility and Scalability, Enhancing Security, and streamlining IT Operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

pooja u.
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual Machines are very easy to configure and deploy. Its probably one of the preferred cloud infrastructure by large companies. Azure virtual machines comes with various flavors of size, operating systems, pre-canned tools like SQL server database and SQL server Management studio etc. It is very easy to create a schedule for the run time back-up/restore and other operations. Another plus going Azure VM is that it can easily talk to other technologies like Sql Database , Azure Data factory , Azure data Lake etc. Over-all it is a pretty comprehensive cloud environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure VM is a very comprehensive environment and nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Azure virtual machines to deploy Vm's for installation of Erwin DataIntelligence tool. We use various flavors of operating systems like Windows 2019, Ubuntu and other environments. We also use Azure VM to deploy virtual machines which are running with native SQL server instances to be used as a repository for Erwin DataIntelligence tool. We use the Azure VM imaging to quickly spin-off the VM with the DI and other tools installed for the purposes like pre-sales team, services and for the execution of poc's.

We use Azure VM to integrate with other technologies like Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL , Azure Synapse and Data Factory, etc with Erwin DataIntelligence tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kanchuka W.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Azure cloud is very versatile and scalable and caters to any customer requirement without any problem, I use azure cloud daily on different scales and with other customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Azure cloud needs to improve on web hosting and is slightly behind AWM when it comes to web hosting and app hosting. Also could include a free tier as well for the customers starting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Azure helps us to get rid of the legacy infrastructure we have inside the network and provides the scalability we need and the desire to reduce cost and optimize performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.