Azure Virtual Machines Reviews & Product Details - Page 42

The capability to deploy a Sharepoint server was particularly useful for my client. The solution integrated perfectly with the existing Microsoft-heavy client IT system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There have been stability issues with Azure recently. This reduces certainty for clients. Microsoft should upgrade/update shortly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use, tutorials and marketplace... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up network from ground up adding rules etc... Some template would be good to kick start a cluster of 2 Ubuntu servers in Asia for example... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexibility and compatibility with the products we use for Insurance industry. Integration is easier and deployment is easy too. Scaling is same as available on other products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A bit on the costly side compared to AWS. Also, the amount of third-party content is less compared to AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the PAAS functionality. It has a lot of features I use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is not the best and they are limited on the types of VMs you can have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that they are like physical computers. They are almost the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had an issue connecting it to internet. I had to search in internet and dowload some dll. It finally worked but I lost a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to set up and manage, per-minute charging, your VMs are not charged when turned off. Using ARM Templates or Terraform to manage infrastructure allows you to create entire cloud datacenter in couple of minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You have to build availability sets to get SLA guaranteed, this will increace your costs drammatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has an easy user interface and is very self-explanatory if you run into any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the price seems a little steep for what is is Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has lots of OS that I could not find by other provider. Also the time for installing is very quick then easy setup. I can found some OS that never seen before like F5 BIG - load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price is quite expensive and the trial version is quite short. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Without Question it's probably one of the most flexible platforms available today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can begin with cost... As a developer who mostly develops on the Microsoft stack it's not easy for me to be critical as I love Visual Studio and SQL Server... but one thing that Microsoft has kept in play is complicated licensing pricing. It is so complicated that you can ask two different Microsoft Certified licensing professionals the same question and receive two different answers.

Unfortunately Azure has picked up this HORRIBLE practice and made figuring out how much you actually are going to need to pay anyone's guess. Several times I've had to tell clients flat out that they would have to get the service for a couple months to get an idea of how much it costs... Who want's to do that? Horrible!

I am always for advancement... but another thing I highly dislike about Azure is the platform changes way too much way too fast! I've spent a lot of time and effort learning the platform only to have to relearn features again weeks later! I feel bad for the professionals who take the time to do online videos on the Azure platform because each and every video I've ever seen that covers a feature of Azure is quickly outdated... I've literally watched videos or followed online tutorials that are only a couple months old and couldn't follow along because the platform changed how it was done! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fast and good deployment of virtual machines. Very rapidly growth of new services, that can deploy to my infrastructure in one-two clicks. Also I can easy duplicate infrastractures and change some settings for testing or backups. Also clearly to understand to what I spend money using automatic generate xls-spreadsheet. Also some times ago new administrate interface appears with many new features of easy Azure cloud administrate. There are some calculators of spending resources, and I can predict spending money in the future. There is nearly static ip-address for resolving name of machine, it was very useful in my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it is not easy to understand, where tunings. For example, how change cores of virtual machine. Or how to change root or admin password. Some actions only can be done with console (putty or windows console). Also if I want to deep analysis my spendings, then I must do my own filters in the Excel, there are no default filters or smart deep views of spending money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.