What is Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?
Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+92 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?
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- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Fair
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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews
Santanu Kumar D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
Great Product, with lots of features
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
While AWS and GCP is good in cloud market, I think Microsoft Azure provides lots of features and capabilities which are quite unique from others. And their tight integration with Microsoft 365 and Active Directory is something, which enterprises love and find easy to make a switch to.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The documentation, user guide, training and support of Microsoft Azure is something which is absolutely stunning. They have detailed information on almost all of the services which they offer and lots of free trainings as well which helps many people to get a good understanding of the platform.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The only thing I can think of is that sometimes the cost of some azure services can be little on the higher side which is something that might make small companies to think twice before adopting.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Overall Azure is a great product, perhaps one of the best cloud provider out there. It has great set of documentation, trainings, support and features. It can bring a lot of value to your organization.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Kunal D.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2023
The most easy to use and table cloud services
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
Microsoft cloud is way ahead in services list and perhaps offers the highest number of services so it is very good in terms of naming convention of the services unlike AWS.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
the user interface of the protal the very detailed documentations are awesome and really helpfull for anyone staring on microsoft azure.
What do you dislike most about this product?
some product like azure devops are little bit costly just for using repo you have to pay some amoount which is never seen anywhere else,
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
try to minimize some services and unify them like ADF and Synapse does more or less same work, so merginf ADF into synapse would be good,
Pros
- Respectful
- Altruistic
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Nsese D.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2023
A reliable and secure platform.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that is different from other similar products, in that it offers a wide range of scalability options that allow users to quickly scale their services up or down depending on their needs. It also offers a range of security features to protect data and applications, as well as a variety of tools to help users manage their cloud infrastructure.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect about Microsoft Azure is the scalability and flexibility it provides that makes it easy to manage and customize my applications and services as my business needs change.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dislike the fact that Microsoft Azure services can be unreliable at times, leading to unexpected downtime and lost data.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are considering Microsoft Azure, take advantage of the free trial period to get a feel for the platform and its capabilities. It is also important to consider the security and reliability of the platform, as well as the support services available.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
