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Its ability to upscale the Virtual Machines based on the needs of your applications. Need more CPU power and need it quickly without having to migrate information from one Virtual Machine to another or do complicated tasks? then this is what you need. We went quickly from a server with 4 cores, then needed to upgrade to 8, then 16 Cores for our applications as it is a very CPU intensive application and we need to make it work fast for the 200 users we have using it on one server (we have more than one), and all it needed was a quick restart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While packages are flexible, they are based on CPU Cores and don't let you select the RAM. For instance, we upgraded to 16 CPU Cores, but the amount of RAM available on the servers over exceeds our needs, which could be a hit to the pricing. Having a way to balance CPUs and RAM better will be welcome in the future, but is surely not a game stopper today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It really performs outstanding for Microsoft suite of applications and can be tailored to meet the business requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure should also focus on providing capabilities for developers that focus on the development of native applications in the cloud that will not only run seamlessly in the cloud, but will stand out in each space and be efficient, resilient and scalable in the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a couple of things I love about azure virtual machines.

1. Using it has made our infrastructure more agile and scalable to meet the demands of the growing business

2. Enhanced performance to meet the increasing demand of users

3. Peace of mind due to security of our data in terms of recovery of our data and business continuity in case of disasters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no specific item i dislike about the product . The product has worked well for me and have also received good feedback from my friends who use it at their companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft Azure in particular is a platform to offer a server in the cloud, with the ability to support different data to place a web page, data for backup copies and even to store documents. It has some very good features, such as stability within the server, with no possibility of any interruption, and also, a perfect interface, very nice and organized to perform the task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like this platform to improve prices, since it is unscrupulous that monthly prices greater than $ 500 are offered just for one server storage, I would like more accessible prices for all users, prices that are really worthwhile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to use and allows you to save the information in another site for a better backup, it is what I like the most because if there is a failure, the information is completely compatible. It can be accessed with any device you decide to use, including your cell phone. It allows me to give different levels of access to my co-workers to know who is doing and look at what, the infrastructure as a service allows you to free up time and resources up to that point destined to maintain your own infrastructure, to direct them to tasks of greater value for your business, among others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like least about the product is that tech support could have been a little better with billing and account transfers. Was a little difficult transferring the services from one work account to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Ease of spinning a VM and Based plans makes on the go deployment easy.

2. Multiple pricing plans with high speed clusters.

3. Adding spaces and backups are easy way to go around.

4. Microsoft services like SSO are easily enabled for access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linux support. I feel custom linux flavours are missing. Adding multiple version support and Private registry backup would make it one place for all VMs.

Pricing is bit high as compared to Competitors which might be point of decision for many developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Virtual Machines provides the way to work in cloud right like are used to do it on-premise. VMs are connected to virtual networks and storage accounts, that means you can extend your existing network to cloud using IPSec tunnel and just integrate you data center with Azure. It is very useful when you already have a set of applications thatyou want to move to Azure without actually rebuilding these. VMs are available in different sizes and based on HDD and SSD drives, so you can select needed performance without spending additional costs. VMs could be created in availability and scale sets so you can have stable and scalable environments when it is needed without manually deploying additiional copies in case of load growth. You can automate scaling based on metrics collected from these VMs so you application will get additional instances when some heavy events are going on, and remove these when load falls, to save your costs. You can select any OS you need, everybody used to think that Azure is mostly Windows oriented, but you can even find plenty of Oracle Linux images on marketplace, you also can get get VMs with pre-installed software or migrate your own from on-premises with several possible ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing policy is very confusing, montly bill bill is usually different from what you have get from Azure Pricing calculator prior to deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the interface, improved performance and multiple boxes can provision with various versions of OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Estimation using the monthly price calculator and reality has great mismatches. Can include some more images or images of great demand created by users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Virtual Machines could be the perfect solution, if you desired to start moving your services from outdated hardware to cloud. These machines are running almost just like your regular VMs in data center and moving your applications and databases there will not require rewriting the code to start. So you can just start your applications as it is, and only after this plan any code changes to move to PaaS level. All VMs are running in virtual networks and can access storage accounts. Your staff will not have to do much efforts to get familiar with new environment and will be able to support applications like it was in on-premise data center. Marketplace allows you to pick all almost all needed images to deploy, it has Windows, Linux machines, machines with installed software. License for everithing installed before deployment is always included in cost of machine. If you will not find suitable image, you can capture image from your existing on-premise virtual machine and deploy it to Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lots of pricing tiers could be confusing for first time, from a first sight you can`t understand why similar in resources VMs, has different costs. No generation 2 Hyper-V VMs support, you need to convert your machine before migration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Virtual Machines are a part of IaaS solution, which allows you to work with your workloads like you are doing it in your on-premise datacenter. So you can work as you are used to. VMs has a great choise of pricing levels that allows you to set up anything from a simple Linux VM for smtp server up to powerful server that can handle 3D rendering workload or host a nested hypervisor, if you are using Windows 2016 as an OS. Multiple images available from marketplace, different operating systems, you can find a great set of Linux and Windows machines, machines with pre-installed software, for example SQL Server or even Oracle database. You can combine your VMs in scale and availability sets for automatic scaling and failover purposes respectively. You can also perform vertical scaling of single VMs by switching it another pricing level. Vms can be backed up with built in Azure services and have desired redundancy by replicating these to additional zones and regions. VMs are charged on per-minute basis, so you can turn off the machines that are not being used and pay only for storage for these. You can even create automation to schedule shut down and turn on of your VMs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only Hyper-V VMs are currently available, hope Microsoft will implement at least VMWare in future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.