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What is Microsoft Azure?

Azure is a comprehensive computing platform, providing cloud infrastructure, products and services, developer tools, and innovations in data and AI. More than 95 percent of the Fortune 500 choose Azure. Azure has unique on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, and edge capabilities that offer you the flexibility to innovate anywhere. Developers can use their favorite languages, open-source frameworks, and tools to code and deploy. Azure includes over 200 physical datacenters arranged into more than 60 regions and upholds our customers' expectations with data residency, compliance, and high availability. Modernize your IT, grow your business, and unlock insights from your data with the scale and security Azure provides.

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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately

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Fabio M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Azure is a cloud platform packed with features and functionalities, with diverse solutions."
It's hard to pick a tool within the platform that I like the most, as it's very comprehensive. However, I really like the integration with Microsof...
PRITAM SINGH C.
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PRITAM SINGH C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Best Friendly on-premises datacenters to cloud computing"
Simplified InfraStructure, Businesses of all sizes rely on Azure, includes more than 1,800 models
Nitesh R.
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Nitesh R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Efficient cloud service provider"
I like services like Azure blob, azure function, and for source control management azure devops.
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

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 operating systems like Linux (ubuntu), Windows, macOS etc. It supports multiple versions of OS as well helping us to choose the most appropriate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The drawback of Azure Virtual Machines is that it requires to be managed by some professionals, like server monitoring and patching. It may also increase the overall cost and budget, so requires skilled cloud professionals to use it efficiently and optimise the cost for the organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure Virtual Machines is solving the problem of managing physical server infrastructure. It is helping my organisation to effectively utilise the resources and deploy our in-house applications to cloud without worrying about the computation power, physical security, power supply, availability and many other factors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Its an great cloud platform to manage your resources which are scable upto a great instant without so much hustle. Its very easy to implement, use and integrate to other microsoft services like office 365, AD etc.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Quite high costing is an concern for azure servies. Also they are countunious changing a lot, which sometime became quite difficult to manage or find settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is an combined bundled cloud platform to manage your services or instances. And when it comes to organisation having windows machine in Ad like ours, then it becomes very easy to manage all the IT or devops stuff. We can manage our VMs, cosmos DB, Kube services, various resource groups- according to projects, blob storage services etc. from an single platform. It also have its data centres across globe and its market share continuously increasing which make it popular among others. And for security it always set on high as it have azure key vault, defender which continuous check for any vulnerabilitis and you can remidiate them accordingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

- Azure has vast varitiy of serivces, be it PAAS, SAAS, or IAAS, so depending on your solution needs you can choose your prefered option.

- Integration with 3rd party tools is easier to implement and secure with OAuth 2.0 approach (based on Azure service principal)

- Do you want to host a simple static website -> just use Storage account, or VM, or App service, choice is yours!

- Facing any issues with any of the implemented solution? Just get in touch with Microsoft support (you need to have the basic support plan) and they will help you to sort out the issue in the best way possible.

- The Azure portal interface is simple and easy to use, resource are grouped using resource groups, so segration of Environments can be done on Subscription and resource group level.

- Analysing the cost is easier at scope of resource group or subscription level.

- There are multiple ways by which you can monitor your application and setup alerts as per your solution's requirement.

- Permission management & assignment is easier with Role based access control.

- Being a frequent user of Azure for more than 5 years, I would highly recommand the use of Azure for your next solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

- For most of the services they provide good SLA, however if there are any issues, eg. Network timeout for consumption based logic apps, Azure Data factory, then even if we contact the support, there is a high chance that the support team may not be able to provide you detailed log info, and you have to implement a retry or some sort of workaround.

- Sometimes due to temporary outage of services, alert firing might be missed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft Azure has highly available services, due to which hosting a solution is easier, and mainly that means you can access it from anywhere in world, this means less of maintaince, making sure of the hosting services are up or not, and more of actual work that can be done!

Compared to other cloud platforms some of the solutions are cheaper / simply better on Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

It's hard to pick a tool within the platform that I like the most, as it's very comprehensive. However, I really like the integration with Microsoft Entra ID, where you can assign roles to users and also set access rules to resources within Microsoft Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

The Azure platform is really quite complete. So far, I haven't found anything I don't like, because it has worked very well in the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft Azure has solved bottleneck problems in the data transition that we had in our operations through scalability and process automation. This has generated satisfaction for our customers, as well as savings for the company, which now has the freedom to dedicate itself and develop innovations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is one of best Cloud service provider. Provide the services for IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, as per the solution we can choose the services and pay for that only.

it has very user friendly and customizable dashboard.

As it's a microsoft application so it can be intregrated with other application very easily.

There are multiple ways to monitor the application and you can set up alert as per your requirement.

As I am also working with Azure from last few years So It's highly recommended. as it's a microsoft product so you can trust on security part as well. Provide the great customer supoort with techinal person to resolve your issue.

Implemention is also very easy with Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

As such there is nothingh which I didn't like about Azure. Overall it's a great solution but some like Application Gateway and Azure congnitive of the services that I feel costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's a great solution for small organization as well, they don't need to spend buying any infrastructure setup to run their environment without taking care of backend support, for rest of the technical issue can be resolved by consulting with Microsoft team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ajinkya J.
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Product Reviewed: Azure Functions
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What do you like best about Azure Functions?

- Azure function has good support for various languages and is supported on linux and windows platform (while creating the function app).

- It can be integrated easily with Azure Entra ID Single sing on, rbac permissions, OAuth authentication flow etc.

- various plans are available to suit your needs (Consumption, dedicated etc.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Functions?

- Identifying issues for a function failure with consumption based plan is a nightmare, mostly it's service unavailable issue (which is to be expacted), so you will have to figure out some workarounds / retries for these service unavailable based failures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- We wanted to automate certain data processing based on a trigger, Azure function came to rescue with it's support for node.js, python, powershell etc. languages to fulfill our needs in various scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure offers some of the best cloud services at low costs. It is one of the most popular cloud platforms used by many large organizations it provides user-friendly interface that makes it easy to identify and create services. microsoft azure offers a variety of services for different use cases based on pricing tiers and budget you can choose services like Web apps, Kubernetes, Azure functions and many more, depending on your needs. they also provide certifications and courses to help users understand the portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

I don't dislike anything about Azure but some services like Application Gateway and Azure Cognitive Services can be a bit costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft Azure helps our organization host applications without any upfront costs and without the need to worry about infrastructure. It provides a pay as you go model allowing us to deploy applications without concern for underlying costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Simplified InfraStructure, Businesses of all sizes rely on Azure, includes more than 1,800 models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Speed can be an issue for some businesses, Because opening a cloud account is a fairly simple process today, an empowered individual with spending responsibilities could approve a Microsoft Azure account without the business or ownership approving of the action in the first place. Although 90% of Fortune 500 companies are using Azure, it may not be the right value offering for every business, especially some startups or new SMBs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure follows the DADSC approach to security: detect, assess, diagnose, stabilize, and close. When this profile is paired with the cyber-security controls that are built into the platform, you’ll be able to take their multiple compliance certifications and turn them into your next best assets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure VM are highly realiable, scalable and comes with very high standards of security as Microsoft spends a lot on security. They are easy to Implement according to our needs with great support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Sometimes cost is an concern as compared to other peers in market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Previously we have inhouse machines and continuous being up for them was a tough task so we moved to azure cloud. Azure VMs are very scalable and reliable as per our needs and these are easy to integrate with other microsoft services. Also they provided most of up time with great support quality of Micorsoft. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham L.
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Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Product Reviewed: Azure Blob Storage
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What do you like best about Azure Blob Storage?

Simplicity and features that helps intrgrate different things with ease. We are currently storing csv files mostly. I am using it daily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Blob Storage?

Different Groups we need to create for access control which is I feel needs to be improved a bit. This process of adding users to the existing group can be improved. For a user outside from a group is very difficult sometimes to access files from Blobs. We can add creating date-time in the default view in Storage Explorer, this will help me tracking files properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Blob Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?

It stores different files into storage accounts for us. We dump files daily on blobs. It is really easy for integrations different systems together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.