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

On Azure portal, it is very easy to navigate the layout and find exactly what we need. The available cloud services are easy to use and provide a great detail for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

On the Azure portal, when we remove any resource, sometimes, we miss the associated sub-resources and they may keep on costing money in the background. If they make suggestions of the connected resources, that would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

Microsoft Azure is a perfect starting point for new users of cloud infrastructure and provides a user friendly interface that is simple to understand and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft Azure provides a variety of IaaS and Paas services that make our life easier. We use Azure VM, Vnet and other resources to replicate or create POC environments for our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Surjithkumar M.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft azure provides lots of servies in cloud environment. I like the cloud services and serverless services in it. It provides best services comparing others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Dislikes in microsoft azure gives less amount of learning stuffs using documentation and resource sortages. lack of GUI issues and lack of speed that it about azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

Recommended Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure solves the ML in cloud environment it provide feasible cloud services to their user. azure gives all the serverless and function of integration other services with in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ekow  B.
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

the security features it supports is very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

its Linux bias and hence doesn't load very fast on windows machines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing company devices on the cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

There are many things under this tag like:

1. Create a virtual machine and scale up the VM in minutes based on the requirement.

2. Based on the compute time payment mechanism is the best approach.

3. Easily download the image of windows or Linux from the azure market place which is very quick and simple.

4. High availability of the machine and no major Maintainance required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Some observations under this tag are -

1. All activities and even small actions required more costing which impacts the budgeting of the process and project.

2. Many non-required suggestions create more noise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

For faster computing and better management of all resources azure VMs are the better option to spin up the required infra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The Azure virtual machine gives the better option and feasibility to manage and maintain all resources in a very effective manner.

One of the coolest benefits is to scale up the hardware based on the requirement which required very less effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

The security and the multitude of services. If you go with Azure you dont need any other infrastructure provider, it has everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Some services are not upto the mark - Azure SMS for example is not production ready so we had to switch to Twilio.

Costs are higher as compared to AWS for similar services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Multi directory access so we can get client account access easily - CI/CD integrations with DevOps and new AI based services for new projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

paritaaz V.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

I like how Azure is easy to understand and use. It's much self explainatory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

It is a bit difficult to keep up with the daily updates happening on the portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I like how Microsoft is documenting everything. Surely does help me most times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Practical hands-on experience in cloud, Practical Applications of Cloud Computing, Experience of using the online cloud, It is best in the market to start your practical journey with the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Everything is great about Microsoft Azure, Everything is working fine according to what we are looking for, More practical Examples can be added, The course can be multilingual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To deploy an application online, Azure provided a good start for the same, The Azure is cost-effective for better productivity, many manual tasks become online using azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Easy to use. Easy navigation. Fast performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Nothing much. Some of the costs are hidden and are visible in the billing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Azure:

Evaluate your requirements. Go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is solving the legacy Microsoft environments to take advantage of new-age computing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ayush .
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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

azure provides high scalability,pay as you go model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Cost is high for beginner-level candidates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It provides a serverless approach because of which a lot of money is saved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

I like doing DevOps and machine learning on azure as it comes in very handy and there are a lot of options for learning azure from the website itself and from the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

There are a lot of upsides to azure but there is only one downside that I feel. I work in a big tech company and sometimes because it is a saas software, it gets really complicated to understand and work with azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Well, azure has a great speed of service which comes very handy when we are running large applications and all. It is really flexible as well and it's disaster recovery system and security is really good comparing to other cloud services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.