Microsoft Azure Reviews

We sell Microsoft products, and licensing that is involved in an Open License.

We sell a variety of solutions to our customers.

Microsoft Azure is a very good solution for many customers. We prefer to offer hybrid solutions to our smaller-sized customers.

The online will be through Azure or 365 and the databases we prefer locally.

It is used with Exchange, all of the mail, team, and the share products such as SharePoint.

Also for security with AI, which we are still testing.

Microsoft Azure has a large scope, it can do many things.

Everything is very easy to work with.

I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud.

There are some security issues in the cloud that cannot be solved. Some countries will not allow you to store certain types of data on the cloud.

We started using Microsoft 365 in 2009.

The stability needs improvement. At times when there is a problem in one area, everything gets stopped, which is not good.

If the problem is the bandwidth and you have a number of redundancies or lines that link to Azure, you will have few options in Azure.

it is a scalable solution.

We haven't had a lot of issues. In our company, we prefer to learn about each product, and by doing this, we have fewer issues.

The installation is very easy.

Most areas of the application can be installed in a few minutes, but the configuration is a different story.

The configuration is dependent on the demands or the environment.

it can take hours or it can take days.

Most of the pricing from Microsoft is reasonable.

The prices are very good for the services.

If Microsoft Azure meets the demands of the company, we would recommend it.

Other companies, may require products like Amazon, or they use their own data center. It depends on the company.

I would rate most of the areas in Microsoft Azure an eight out of ten.

Within our organization, there are roughly 15 people using this solution.

It's a great solution. It's so customizable. Every user can create dashboards to suit their needs. We can create and share them with our teammates easily, too.

Microsoft Azure is also very user-friendly.

I honestly can't think of anything that needs to be improved.

I have been using this solution for five years.

Microsoft Azure is both scalable and stable.

The technical support is very responsive.

I evaluated Amazon and Google Cloud.

The initial setup was quite straightforward. Deployment depends on your requirements. Typically, I can deploy it within a weeks time.

There are monthly and yearly payment plans. We save more in the long run with the yearly option.

I would absolutely recommend this solution to other users.

Microsoft Azure has all of the latest cloud services with all high availability and scalability. It's also very secure. The cost is more or less the same across all cloud service providers, too. 

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of nine.

Due to the pandemic, I haven't been able to utilize their full resources.This has made it complicated to scale up. I hope this will be resolved after the pandemic.

All development and pre-production scenarios are now under pay as you go, and are not open all the time, in that way we’re saving a lot of resources, money and we gain fast flexibility to grant new capabilities, computing power, and PoC scenarios.

All of this without compromising production workloads and overall computing power, and any investment.

Software designed network capabilities, flexible computing, and managed storage. All of them together make a hybrid datacenter design more flexible for users and IT pros.

SDN capabilities make anyone able to manage and organize a virtualized network in as many levels (VNets and subnets) as you want, securing aces as well. You can organize many VNets and easily interconnect them. You have several and easy ways to connect your virtual DC in Azure with your on-premise DC -- making it easy to have hybrid environments.

Managed storage capabilities, which create a very simple way to create, copy, and replicate local or geo-replicate, it's very simple to assign workloads.

All classic storage configuration settings are now managed by the platform. Huge granularity of compute availability makes it really easy to get appropriate sizing or to change the sizing of actual or future workloads.

One of the most important areas for improvement is the administrative part of management. It‘s difficult to manage, all aspects of Azure invoicing, and further pricing vs usage comparison and capacity to move under usage resources to a better positioned.

In this matter, it’s necessary to use third party products or to use good self-management economic tools

Sometimes in the management portal, not in the workloads.

Not at the current situation. Not all workloads are working in Azure.

In our case, tech support was requested only two times, regarding Azure AD integration issues and special domain resolution issues. It was solved in a good way.

I want to mention a special domain resolution case. It was not easy to solve and was difficult to find a escalation engineer in order to understand the “problem” to fix it.

Because of better integration with AD and Azure AD, Office 365, and IaaS and PaaS Services.

In general, it was straightforward, but was really well analyzed and planned in order to minimize possible problems and complexity.

It’s a good idea to use BYOL if you have an EA. It’s a really noticeable cost reduction.

It’s also interesting to analyze carefully all invoicing costs and workload usages -- to better fit costing scenarios.

Yes, we analyzed Amazon AWS and Oracle Cloud.

Be careful, not all workloads are interesting or cost viability to move to Azure as is. In most cases, it will be necessary an important transformation to better fit the Azure ecosystem.

Focus on a first project in order to test all aspects related with platform, providers, own tech capabilities, costs -- that will give you all the tools to decide future plans.

I mainly use Azure for data analytics and implementation.

The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions.

Compared with other cloud solution providers, Microsoft is not good at local support.

I've been working with Azure for almost five years.

Azure's stability is ok, but there are issues sometimes. I'd rate its stability as seven or eight out of ten.

Azure is scalable.

Microsoft isn't good at local support.

The initial setup was straightforward.

Azure is cheaper than solutions from other cloud vendors like AWS or Google.

I prefer Azure to AWS or Google because it's cheaper and its ecosystem is better integrated. I would rate this solution as eight out of ten.

I am a Team Lead of Information Security Control. We currently have 200 users working with Azure in our organization. 

Capacity planning has played an important part in working with Azure because it estimates all of the business goals and translates messages into the technology that is required to support.

The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure.

The response time and stability of Microsoft Azure need to be improved.

I have been using Microsoft Azure for four years.

The maintenance of this solution is done through Microsoft's partner, I would consider the service acceptable.

The initial deployment was done by Microsoft. The integration experience was good. The deployment and configuration was easy.

I would recommend working with Azure as this is a easy tool to use. I would rate this solution an 8 out of 10.

We primarily use the solution for cost reasons, for example, when a client's hardware refresh is coming and they don't want to incur the cost on the hardware. We also use it for capacity as, when they buy hardware, those are constrained by capacity. 

The analytics services are the most valuable aspect of the solution.

The product has many useful features on offer. 

We have found the user interface to be intuitive. Microsoft is a master at UI.

The stability is okay.

The solution has the potential to scale. 

We have found the pricing to be reasonable. 

You don't get support from Microsoft very easily as compared to other solutions. For example, AWS. If I reach out to AWS, their PDM team is very quick to respond. The Microsoft Azure team does not.

The downtime could be a bit better. AWS has less downtime.

The solution needs to scale as well as AWS, which scales much better.

I've been using the solution for four to five years at this point. It's been a while. 

The stability is okay. There are no bugs or glitches. It's reliable. However, AWS seems to be a bit better.

In terms of downtime, if you look at the reporting side, if you look at the Gartner report, it shows that AWS experienced significantly fewer outages as compared to Azure.

In my experience, I've seen AWS as a little bit more robust in terms of scalability and its features as compared to Azure. That said, Azure is improving every day. Still, AWS seems to be ahead in terms of scalability. 

Technical support is not very responsive. They are quite slow. 

While the team may be capable, the processes set up around are really bad. If you have to reach out to someone to get technical support, it takes hours and hours of effort to get to them.

The initial setup is neither easy nor difficult. It's somewhere between straightforward and complex. Usually, with our clients, we don't get straightforward projects. However, we can't say they are the most complex out there either.

We tend to do setups for our clients.

The pricing is fair. It's not overly expensive.

Lately, I have been researching technical comparisons between Azure and AWS for SAP HANA 2.0 migration from on-premises to the cloud.

We are Azure partners.

I'm mainly providing services to my customers, and therefore am not necessarily an end-user.

For the most part, I would recommend Azure. However, we cannot just recommend Azure blindly. Azure suits mostly the customers that are using the Microsoft suite of products. It brings your own licenses into the play so that you don't end up with another cloud. If you're using Microsoft products, then Azure is a straight fit for you. You should not evaluate any other cloud. However, if you're not using the Microsoft suite of products, if you're using MS Skills, running Solaris, and all of those things, then you have to evaluate which cloud is better.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.