Azure Bastion Reviews

Our customers use the product to connect to Azure virtual machines. It is a perfect solution that they can easily connect to the browser and experience the VM services.

Azure Bastion makes it easy to provide quick virtual machine access to our customers. We don’t have to build complex SSL VPN tunnels and connect to the infrastructure. It is time-saving. It helps us save around four work hours per month for us.

Every organization has public and private IP addresses, and you can't log into every machine over the internet. That's where Azure Bastion comes into the picture. You can configure Bastion on one machine, and from that machine, you can RDP or PuTTY to all the machines. RDP is for Windows, and PuTTY is for Linux.

In our team, there are several people. Usually, for RDP, they would require a license, whereas, with Bastion, there is no RDP license. You just go ahead and log in with your domain credential, and you can start working on it. It saves license costs. 

It provides all the security to us. Without getting on the internet, we can access our servers. We can access our desktop through our web browser. We don't need to run the mstsc command and login to the VM. All those things are not required.

We have various uses for the solution, but primarily to address security concerns. We used the Azure CLI to connect to the Azure VMs we created for our customers. It was essential for us to be able to connect to the VMs in a simple, secure, and smooth way.

We conducted a migration process to move our customer's on-prem environment onto Azure, using Azure Bastion for login and remote login sessions. The transition took two to three months, and getting used to the product was an experience, though we didn't encounter any problems. Bastion works as advertised; there's a vacuum, and we script using an Azure-based CLI.

The ability to operate the product with scripting is excellent. 

The solution's ease of use is also favorable; we could send the login script to the customer, and they could use it with their ID in the connection box without any other impact. This was of great benefit.

The Microsoft documentation is handy; it's straightforward and easy to follow.

The solution breaks down sometimes. 

I have been working with the product for four years. 

Azure Bastion is a service that allows you to create an infrastructure on Azure. My organization helps companies implement and optimize the Azure infrastructure.

The solution's most valuable feature is that it is easy to use and fast. It is a good tool for creating infrastructure as code. It is modernized, so I can create complex infrastructures.

We use it to access the 144 virtual machines hosted in Azure. This service provides a secure entry point, allowing us to connect to our VMs without public IP addresses. Our setup benefits from the streamlined and secure remote access Azure Bastion provides for our Azure-based infrastructure.

One significant benefit is the ability to have direct control over our infrastructure. Unlike before, where we relied on Rackspace for tasks like resizing VMs and managing databases, having hands-on access to our own products within Azure has proven to be a highly favorable aspect. Our organization's overall security posture has significantly improved. While we encountered various challenges with Rackspace, the transition to Azure, particularly with Azure Bastion, has provided us with a more secure means of accessing our VMs. This has been a substantial improvement, not only in terms of security but also in cost management. The move to Azure has saved us money compared to the nickel-and-dime expenses associated with Rackspace support. Troubleshooting and issue resolution have become more efficient. Previously, a task that might have taken an hour over the phone with Rackspace can now be accomplished in just five to ten minutes. The streamlined process has notably improved our workload and task completion times.

We have implemented it in one of our ITITS firms. We use it simply for IT management and optimization. We use it to connect virtual machines.

The solution acts as a dedicated server and we have implemented multiple software. Users can easily access everything from there. It's a cost-effective solution as we don't want to purchase any servers. Everything's on the cloud. That is the main advantage for the company.