Azure Sphere Reviews

Name: Azure Sphere
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 3.8 (3 reviews)

3.8 out of 5

3 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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Azure Sphere development kits provide everything you need to start prototyping and developing Azure Sphere applications. Order yours today and start taking advantage of the rich development experience in Visual Studio.

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Azure Sphere is the #7 ranked solution in top IoT Security solutions. PeerSpot users give Azure Sphere an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. Azure Sphere is most commonly compared to Microsoft Defender for IoT: Azure Sphere vs Microsoft Defender for IoT.

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Chandrakant Deshmukh

Senior VP IOT at Mastek Ltd

With the tool, the learning curve is really good. I don't have to spend time in long training sessions, which is typically required for other platforms. As my company is a Microsoft kind of shop, we have developers, making the learning curve easy compared to other tools. When it comes to integration with the back-end systems, manufacturing companies are still using some other apps in their environment. Getting data or pushing those analytics data back to the back-end systems is relatively simple while using Azure Sphere and other integration points, and so that is why there is a clear direction from our company's end customer that they need an Azure solution.

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HarshitMathur

IoT Consultant at Accenture

Scalability-wise, the devices that I was using were around 25 in number, and the solution was easy to deploy. I just need to duplicate the solution, my firmware, to 20 other devices, which was pretty easy. I didn't find any issue with that. The only thing is, that is something that we still need to evaluate, how good is this Azure Sphere in the industrial setup? There's a solution called Kepware From PTC that takes care of industrial tools and industrial communication. With that kind of scalability, if Azure Sphere can also achieve it at industrial levels, that would be good. It is good for connected products. For example, a home connected device like Alexa, et cetera. However, from a factory ecosystem point of view, it still needs to achieve that kind of maturity.

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reviewer1210008

Owner with 11-50 employees

The sphere module is offered at a fairly low cost and has a secure interface. It is comparable to Amazon who supply their Greenfield Solution or their Access using a free Artot. Microsoft offers an encapsulated solution, which has a security built-on chip. When you use this solution, you get a dual processor with all the necessary security and Microsoft updates supplied. You don't have to be concerned about the security aspect related to IoT because Microsoft takes care of this.

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Azure Sphere mindshare

As of February 2025, the mindshare of Azure Sphere in the IoT Security category stands at 1.3%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"I think my team is comfortable with the installation of the product."
"It's stable and the performance has been great."
"When you use this solution, you get a dual processor with all the necessary security and Microsoft updates supplied. You don't have to be concerned about the security aspect related to IoT because Microsoft takes care of this."

Room for Improvement

"The lack of awareness of the products among our company's customers is a challenge that needs to be looked at and improved by Microsoft."
"The type of edge devices being addressed through the suite was limited."
"One of the pain points of this solution is that the full Linux box is not exposed to all developers. This restricts what the applications can do as they cant be adjusted."