What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is a dynamic cloud computing platform designed to streamline the development, testing, and management of applications with speed and security. By leveraging Azure, you can creatively turn your ideas into effective solutions, taking advantage of more than 100 services that support building, deploying, and managing applications across various environments such as the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge, all while using your preferred tools and frameworks. The ongoing innovations from Microsoft ensure that your current development requirements are met while also setting the stage for your future product goals. With a strong commitment to open-source values and support for all programming languages and frameworks, Azure grants you the flexibility to create and deploy in a manner that best fits your needs. Whether your infrastructure is on-premises, cloud-based, or edge-focused, Azure is equipped to evolve alongside your existing setup. It also provides specialized services for hybrid cloud frameworks, allowing for smooth integration and effective management. Security is a key pillar of Azure, underpinned by a skilled team and proactive compliance strategies that are trusted by a wide range of organizations, including enterprises, governments, and startups. With Azure, you gain a dependable cloud solution, supported by outstanding performance metrics that confirm its reliability. Furthermore, this platform not only addresses your immediate requirements but also prepares you for the future's dynamic challenges while fostering a culture of innovation and growth.
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Ideal for Scalable and Flexible Cloud Infrastructure
Date: Jan 22 2024SummaryIn the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, Azure Virtual Machines offer a scalable and adaptable infrastructure solution. Its hybrid cloud capabilities, built-in security measures, and support for many operating systems make it an adaptable option for businesses with a range of infrastructure requirements.
PositiveAzure Hybrid Services provide a smooth transition between cloud infrastructure and on-premises data centers. As a result, businesses may create hybrid solutions for application deployment, data storage, and backup.
NegativeEffective usage of Azure virtual machines may need some understanding, particularly for those who are unfamiliar with cloud architecture. Users may need some time to become accustomed to Azure's extensive variety of services and customizations.
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Easy to use Cloud Computing Platform
Date: Mar 07 2022SummaryOverall, I have had a great experience using Microsoft Azure. The platform is extremely versatile and powerful, and has been able to meet the needs of my applications and workloads. Azure has also been very reliable and stable, with minimal downtime or performance issues. The support and documentation from Microsoft has also been excellent, and I have been able to find the answers to my questions quickly and easily.
PositiveAzure offers competitive rates for its services, making it an affordable option for businesses of all sizes.
NegativeThere are many things that people do not like about Microsoft Azure. One of the main complaints is that the platform can be quite expensive. Additionally, there have been complaints about the reliability of the platform and its overall complexity.
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Performant cloud infrastructure
Date: Jul 12 2022SummaryOverall, Azure is a competitive offering in the cloud infrastructure space. Pricing is reasonable, performance is good, and it is highly configurable. However, support for non-Microsoft technologies and workflows is often second class.
PositiveHighly configurable cloud infrastructure.
Many available layers of redundancy.
Competitive pricing.
Free credits for getting started, if you have a visual studio subscription.NegativeDocumentation is often hard to parse, especially for more complex setups suitable for production.
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More in depth usage often requires formal training through Microsoft certification.
Poor built in bot protection.
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A good cloud service that is rapidly evolving.
Date: Mar 12 2022SummaryBusinesses are becoming less dependent upon employees being on-premises in a central office, which adds reliability and uptime. Cloud-based web applications are easy to switch from on-premises to SaaS.
PositiveI like Azure since they offer a lot of available locations that other cloud providers don't. It delivers features needed for microservices that are available and very easy to integrate. The same applications can be developed and deployed seamlessly.
NegativeThere is room for improvement in Azure's Cognitive Services, including using the most common templates. The cost of such an efficient cloud infrastructure could be a little higher, but that is the price you pay for such excellent services.
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Azure is your gateway to the cloud
Date: Mar 16 2022SummaryI would not hesitate to continue to recommend and use Microsoft products and its offerings. Though far from perfect, the speed that things are being brought to market and updated is to be commended.
PositiveAs my company has started its cloud journey, Microsoft has been at the forefront of a number of our initiatives. It has a very large and integrated ecosystem that allows us to bolt on what is needed when it is needed with relative ease.
NegativeThe one thing that you must be careful about is your cost. While things are easy to implement, costs can also easily ramp up if not kept in check.
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Under any operating system Microsoft Azure allows you to create apps and more
Date: Mar 30 2021SummaryIt has certain security problems that need to be solved urgently, but leaving that aside, the application is a good choice for all application or software developers, since it offers clear and accessible tools under a very simple platform to carry out projects perfectly in this area.
PositiveThis program allows us to properly build, develop and manage applications based on its global data network. It gives us the necessary tools to develop both applications and software for computers or mobile devices. Counting with implementation, collaboration and complete development management to cover all the details involved in these procedures.
NegativeWhile the projects are in the development phase where any error is significantly important the application does not provide access control functions to the developer platform. Due to programming errors we have lost progress and the application does not offer an integrated restore or backup. Also, it does not have a data modeling section.
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Microsoft Azure Review
Date: Feb 28 2021SummaryMicrosoft Azure is our to go tool when it comes to creating remote desktops and the tool makes working remotely seamless. It is reliable and never lags especially with good network.
PositiveI like a few things about this tool.
First, setting up Azure is easy and the tool comes with great features.
Creating remote desktop is easy and it makes working remotely seamless.
The tool is very secure, reliable and scaling is easy.NegativeHaving used Microsoft Azure for 2 years, I can say it is amazing. However, it does not come cheap.
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My Experience With MS Azure
Date: Feb 23 2021SummaryWith Microsoft Azure, we own and control the collection thereby offering better control and privacy. Whether it's creating VPNs or managing cloud data, this tool has it all and has been very effective.
PositiveOffers best platform between on-premise and public cloud
Setting up Azure, using and managing the different resources is easy.
Azure is secure and scaling is easy.NegativeMicrosoft Azure subscriptions are very high and not all enterprises can afford.
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Leading tool
Updated: Mar 05 2021SummaryWe have received good support with this respect from Microsoft. Good team that offers quick and helpful solutions.
PositiveMicrosoft Azure is a great cloud platform that we have used. It is easy to quickly set up most applications.
NegativeIf you have a weak network connection then expect latency.
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This is by far the best app dev software I have used
Date: Jun 21 2021SummaryAzure does everything you need for application development and implementation! I highly recommend using this software!
PositiveThis application in conjunction with Visual Studio is mwwwah just amazing. As a coder I can do everything I need with this software.
NegativeNothing this software is amazing! Anyone who is a dev please use.
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The future cloud!
Date: Aug 18 2020SummaryToday you can manage entire companies remotely with the help of services like Azure. They have so many features built-in and hosted on the web that you will never have to look elsewhere.
Positive- Azure just makes the whole Microsoft ecosystem complete. There's always the built-in OS support that small businesses look for since it takes away a lot of headaches for the non-techy users.
Negative- Definitely requires a decent level of IT expertise to set up. If you don't have that, you'll be wasting time in training.
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Good Cloud solution
Date: Jul 21 2020SummaryMicrosoft Azure is a good cloud solution especially for those organizations deep in the Microsoft ecosystem. It is loaded with useful services and features and is a comprehensive IaaS solution. However it needs to up its game especially in the performance to cost ratio.
PositiveGood management interface
Quite easy for beginners
Full of services and features
Good performance, scalability & availability
Free credits for trying out AzureNegativeNeeds better documentation or tips especially for advanced features.
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Microsoft Azure
Date: Apr 10 2020SummaryOnly average overall performance on Microsoft Azure when compared to other competitors such as top-performing Google Cloud Platform.
PositiveWonderful platform for hosting databases in the cloud and I liked the different forms of cloud computing provided.
NegativeThe cost is very high and average performance.no other disadvantages.
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A great cloud infrastructure beyond Windows servers
Date: Aug 24 2020SummaryOverall Microsoft Azure is a recommended cloud infrastructure. It is great for companies already in the Microsoft ecosystem and also a good choice for others who are looking for cloud migration.
PositiveMicrosoft Azure is a infrastructure as a service and is the default choice if looking to migrate application running on Windows server to cloud but it is more than just that. It provides a host of other services and supports Linux and container of you choice. The management interface is quite great and is welcoming for new users. High Scalability, reliability and availability make Azure a great choice.
NegativePricing is a factor in which Azure needs to be more competitive in order to compete with similar services.
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Not a Viable Solution for Nonprofits
Updated: Sep 10 2020SummaryA very poor way to go for any nonprofit unless they are loaded with money (are there such things?). Not a viable service at all. Less than halfway through our first year on Azure, we now have to leave it. That is not what any nonprofit wants to have to do.
PositiveThe interface was fabulous compared, for example, to AWS. Much easier for a non-technical person to look through. A lot of online documentation that was very user-centric.
NegativeAzure was a dreadful mistake for a small nonprofit. Microsoft proudly gave us an allowance of credits that would renew annually; USD3500. And that was kind. But the viability of it stopped on that first day.
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Doing nothing but having an empty, unconfigured SQL database started - not used, just started ready to want to use - in just 4 months of the first 12 months, we had consumed the entire credit allowance.
There was no human help to get things done, so this is not friendly for a startup. You need to really know everything like a DevOps knows before you start.
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Drag and click GUI workflow for NLP, Image Recognition, etc.
Date: Aug 21 2020SummaryI can definitely see why people who are already using Azure for their cloud hosted solutions will also use Azure for its chatbots, NLP, image recognition, and other AI/ML functionalities etc. too.
PositiveNormally, if you wanted to train a neural network from scratch, you'd have to first get ahold of a large, well-labeled dataset, split it into test, validation, and training sets, train your model on the training set, compare it to the result you get when you run the model on the other sets, do some hyperparameter tuning and correct for overfitting etc... super involved and kinda messy. Azure's already trained models for most common use-cases and you don't even need to know how it works.
NegativeThe drag and drop interface isn't completely intuitive. I was following the tutorial for some of them and had to try a second time (which arrow goes where etc) before getting it to work. Still not too bad.
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Good cloud computing but expensive
Date: Nov 23 2020SummaryOverall Microsoft Azure is a good solution for small business setup over cloud computing , but it may not be a cost effective solution for many startup businesses.
PositiveMicrosoft Azure provides very good cloud computing services for students, professionals and businesses. Creation of cloud machine is easy and owner can easily access their cloud machines from any device. Limited trial credits are also available by Microsoft Azure.
NegativeThe high end virtual machines are very costly and there are also data and bandwidth limits for users.
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Effective cloud solution but costly
Date: Nov 12 2020SummaryOverall Microsoft Azure provides secure cloud services with many additional cloud applications and solutions for businesses and professionals.
PositiveMicrosoft Azure provides an effective cloud database solutions for businesses and professionals and users has freedom to create customized cloud solution on basis of their needs and budget.
NegativeMicrosoft Azure is not a cheap solution and not viable for small business with low budgetary funds.
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A great cloud for Microsoft based businesses
Date: Jun 04 2020SummaryMicrosoft Azure is the best fit for Microsoft-centric organizations. It's reasonable pricing and global infrastructure makes it a decent cloud platform despite heavy competition from Amazon & Google's cloud offerings.
PositiveEase of Use.
High Availability.
Pay only what you use pricing model.
Good catalog of services.
Excellent support.NegativeDocumentation can be improved.
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Easiest to deploy cloud computing service
Date: Nov 23 2020SummaryOverall Microsoft Azure is good cloud computing service for new users as it provides a handful free trial and detailed guides for cloud configurations and setup.
PositiveMicrosoft Azure is the easiest to deploy cloud computing service with lot of configuration options and in house cloud applications to work on. The free version and free trials availability is another plus with Microsoft Azure for small testing of applications and making mind for upgrading to paid services as per your need and configurations.
NegativePaid services are not much cost effective and the cloud data limits ends more quickly than expectations.
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