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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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Ayaz W.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Ease of deployment

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What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Nothing to report. It is just that more needs to bring Linux VMs at par. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Irayya M.
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Products used within Microsoft Azure: Azure App Service, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Functions
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

I like almost all the features, simplicity and ease of use of the entire application. We are using SQL Server, using MySQL, Wordpress, other tool Microsoft tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

The billing part and billing support response is very very bad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

Great product, I have compared similar products, but azure has the most satisfying feature which help my business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

we are hosted our product on azure, which helps us to resolve our user load issue, we increase and decrease DTU whenever we want, its just in click, when can take time in data backup whenever we want Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siddhartha A.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

the graphical user interface is very customer friendly, and you can deploy your first virtual machines in just a few clicks. The technical support given by Azure is very reliable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

There is should be a little more documentation of each product offered by Azure like if we want to configure the network resources to our servers besides the network tab there should be a help button which can redirect to the kb article for a better understanding of the first-time user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

You can definitely go for Azure products if you want a cloud solution for your enterprise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft Azure deploys virtual machines of any flavour so I can create a Linux machine and access the machine without needing to have a physical machine which helps in better setting up labs for troubleshooting purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

shubham c.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

the best feature of azure is that it's a Microsoft product and it beautifully intergrates with Mircosoft products. that too on a very competative price as it's his own in house products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

The most dislike feature is the duration period they offer for free trail. A experienced guy may learn azure within a month but an average guy can't learn within a month, so the duration must be increased. Credit is fine but the duration should definetly increase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

Yes, you should learn Microsoft Azure as this is one of the fastest growing cloud service provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

providing better security, removing dependency of installing inhouse servers for small players. Increasing support to cloud native applications which are increasing performance and productivity both. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kunal A.
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Products used within Microsoft Azure: Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Network, Azure Disk Storage
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft azures cloud platform keeps information safe and available even in any disaster. In addition do processing more data faster apps on azure platform are build on fully distributed cache with build in storage scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

It takes more time on startup, before our Virtual Machine ready. If we have many images on cloud then it will take a long time to load images. For eg. If we have windows server 2008 image and OS is not familier with IPv6 we will have problem in configuring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

Azures intigrated cloud resorces are secured and very easy to personlize for each organizations unique requirments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As a deployment engineer we prefered data security which is being handled by microsoft azure very effectivly and it security model which is detect assess diagnose stabilies and close. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft Azure truly has something for every business, its vast coverage of services and options makes it very popular and competitive, and they have collaborated with OCI for better service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Sometimes some services are not generic when it comes to convenience and are complicated to understand and the lack of clear and easy to understand documentation makes it more difficult to adopt as a vendor and use. Terminologies should be improved and made easy for novice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We leverage the Paas options in Microsoft Azure i.e. the "Azure SQL Database" and some VM, mostly we user the VMs to run our ML models and use the SQL databases to save our data frames, nosql is also sometimes used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Denis D.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

In addition to the many services present, the strong integration between them and all Microsoft products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

The cost calculator could be improved for a more accurate estimate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft's cloud is constantly expanding, new features and improvements are announced every week Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rama Kumar N.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Best cloud offerings are available in Azure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Getting resources in Azure is tough because of lack of enough compute resources in certain regions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Its solving the Application presentation using AVD Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shiva S.
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Senior Software Engineer
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Using asure since few years and I am able to make my application deployments much more faster and much more user friendly. This is cost effective as compared to others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

While creating and switching new virtual servers, the time consumption is a bit more.

Working and redesigning certain modules may help in saving time. A quick process is always preferred. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure helped me in easy hosting and deployments. Earlier I used traditional Deployment processes which were a bit complex and later I switched to Azure CICD process which made deployments much more smooth Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Diksha G.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Best thing about azure cloud services is they provide you preview version of some their services and even free version is also available to some of their resources. They give you free credits as well first time to try on some services and you can use cost management services to utilise the cost of your resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

There is nothing about dislike. only thing is sometimes cost structure can be confusing when we just onbooard from new project to cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Load balancing pay as you go pricing model, less on prem resources, less maintenance of data and storage. Major problem solving is we don't need to worry about data on premises, we. can have the backups on cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.