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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.
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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 Microsoft Azure?

The best I like about Azure is the global reach azure provide and SLA it provide for their services that shows the reliability from azure side and also we can use our BYOL for every virtual machine we create. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

The most disappointing thing about Azure is you cannot rename your disk name once it's created, if you want to change the name of disk all you have to do it realease the disk and attach new disk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure helped in cost optimization by using the servers for the time we needed it and helped us achieve high availability of servers by deploying them in different availability zones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

I like the most in Microsoft Azure is that I provide easy way to manage the resources using resource groups. It is a big upside of Azure. We can export the whole resource group as a template for automation. Each time I create a resource I can download the template also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Sometimes too much options for a resource are very confusing and time consuming to understand. For some resources it is very difficult to create a resource it has dependency on other resources. There should be a easy way for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft Azure is solving the problem of managing the resources and infrastructure overhead from the developer so that we can focus on the bussiness problem rather than worrying about the infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure cloud provides two hundred plus on-demand cloud services and it provides cost-effective services. Microsoft Azure also provides disaster recovery services with that we can easily migrate from on-premises to the azure cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

one of the things I dislike most is that they didn't provide a quick reply or response to the customer issues. Sometimes Azure portal slowdown while using some services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

Azure is a good cloud platform with so many cloud services with userfriendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

with Microsoft azure we can easily scale up and scale down services which are the best benefit I like about azure. azure gives different storage categories that help me in cost optimization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

I really love Microsoft Azure because of its popularity. The popularity is great because there is much information on how to fix any problem you may encounter, this is great compared to smaller cloud service providers because they do not have as great online resources compared to Azure. Not to mention the great support from Microsft themselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

I do not like the pricing of some of the services compared to different cloud providers. For example, Azure charges for their bastion service whereas for example Oracle Cloud Infrastructure does not charge for their bastion service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure is helping us with our cloud infrastructure requirements and moving on-premises into the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Compared to most other cloud services, Azure offers more data centres and delivery points. Azure is able to serve material more quickly as a result, improving user experience. Any sort of data can be shared among virtual computers and stored in a dependable and quick environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Data movement. All Azure services are subject to data transfer charges, which frequently lead to additional hidden charges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

Azure lets you include cloud capabilities to your existing organize through its stage as a benefit (PaaS) show, or depend Microsoft with all of your computing and arrange needs with Framework as a Benefit (IaaS).

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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities:

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Cost Efficient Platform:

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

I have created one POC for ETL purposes where I need to shift all exiting data from a different server to the cloud DB so that we can easily manage an Azure Database for PostgreSQL may be a fully-managed database as a benefit with built-in capabilities, such as tall accessibility and insights. You'll be able proceed to utilize dialects and frameworks of your choice with no forthright costs. Pay as it were for what you utilize with saved capacity estimating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Products used within Microsoft Azure: Azure Virtual Machines
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

High-end connectivity of the application, that allows staying in touch with the team despite of working from home is always an advantage over the other mediums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

The application always requires phone verification to log in. It is good for security though but a hectic one for the initial start of the day. the process needed everytime I login to the device Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is a great solution for a work-from-home culture. it helps in keeping up to date within the organization and project management while working from the house. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ajay C.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Azure virtual machines have helped me save a lot of money in computing since its pay as you go is way cheaper and more effective than the other cloud service providers. And the support for migrations in a very few clicks really an amazing feature that is available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

As far as now there are no negatives I had noted till now since the services azure is offering is amazing and it has helped a lot of engineers and analysts across the world to provide better solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

Amazing service with amazing support. Packed with features to solve all of your problems in traditional computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I previously worked with a traditional computing system and recently migrated to a cloud computing model in which I had chosen Azure. Now with the help of virtual machines, I can save a lot of money now since it is based on pay as you use model. Now I can manage my systems in a faster and safer way easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vignesh R.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

AZ cloud services are really good and cost effective comparing to other cloud services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Haven't found any flaws during my work. but sometimes i have faced login issues and reset my password several times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Moving application from onprem to cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Guganprasath K.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Easy to find the features and cost for it across the different region and grab the best suites thing for our solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Versioning limitations for the storage account.blob containers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy business of settling up IAAS and using pass service to host a web service or a solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Firoj S.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

This is one of the best public cloud provider managed by Microsoft one of the giant company. It is providing everything from infrastructure to security services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Azure teams can improve their way of marketing for the students, so more number of future engineer know how to use Azure cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Provides the infrastructure requires to managed the application, provides docker repository to manage the images. And provides CiCd pipelines to work on without managing the extra services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.