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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Composite Score
9.0 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10
Category
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
9.0 /10

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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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines won the following awards in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category

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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

2% Negative
3% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Load Balancing

89

Cloud Integration

88

Access Management

87

Analytics and Reporting

87

Cloud Backup

87

Systems Performance Management

87

Data Migration

87

Encryption and Decryption Support

86

SLA Management

85

Capacity Management

85

Regulatory Compliance

85

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Business Value Created

86

Ease of IT Administration

86

Quality of Features

86

Breadth of Features

85

Ease of Implementation

85

Usability and Intuitiveness

84

Ease of Data Integration

84

Availability and Quality of Training

84

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

83

Ease of Customization

83

Vendor Support

83

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Prateek A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2022

An innovative cloud solution by Microsoft

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service by Microsoft. It is a scalable and reliable cloud service offered by Microsoft. It has all the required services to run the enterprise applications such as storage, network, compute, etc. All the services are managed by the vendor and we can increase or decrease the size or storage as per the requirements.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1) Highly scalable and secured cloud solution. 2) Provides a wide range of services such as AI, NLP, Object detection, etc. 3) Excellent user documentation and training materials. 4) Easily integrate with 3rd party applications and services. 5) Great customer service. 6) Excellent community base.

What do you dislike most about this product?

1) Sometimes creating a new resource takes much time in deployment. 2) The subscription pricing model needs to be improved. 3) Pricing could be challenging for small and mid-sized organizations. 4) Simplify the user interface. 5) Some resources require higher internet bandwidth.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommend the cloud solution service to prospective buyers. It is a widely used cloud service.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Shelby A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Transportation
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2022

Microsoft Azure leveling up cloud storage game

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

My company has been using Microsoft Azure for a long time now and I should say that this is one of the best cloud computing platforms you will ever come across in your life. It comes with all basic necessity features as well as advanced features that are surely necessary and luxury for your work.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Secure data online is a big relief as well as a big threat if you haven’t chosen the right platform for yourself. Sharing data online is not just something you might want to take risks for. Our company shifted to Microsoft Azure after doing lots and lots of research on security factors and we found it to be the best in the field.

What do you dislike most about this product?

This is not something that has happened yet but you need to put lots of thought into it. You put all data in one platform and if something happens there is nothing else you can do but to sue the company. The data lost will never be able to return and this might be a big issue if you get unlucky.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

There are a few things here and there but when you look at all the good parts of it, you think that this is all manageable. It's one of the really amazing cloud based computing systems that exists and you should get one because you want the best for your company.

Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable

Alexis S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Retail
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Makes sense for practical use.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Azure is Linux friendly, which was a surprise for me in my earlier days with this platform. We have successfully ran different Linux and Ubuntu distributions on Azure in the past, with success.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I am a big fan of Microsoft Learn. This is because I have successfully in time past found solutions to problems encountered while using Microsoft Azure. Also, this is very critical because of the slow response rate of the Microsoft Azure support team.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Customer Service response rate is slow and options of contact with customer service agents are limited as well.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This depends primarily on the need, experience and outlook of the team looking to deploy Microsoft Azure.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

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