Azure Stack Reviews

We are a managed cloud service provider and provide Azure hybrid cloud services. We operate Azure Stack on our data center and resell Azure publicly.

Beside providing to our customers, we use Azure Stack for internal use as well. We are gradually migrating our internal application from VCE to Azure Stack because the cost of Azure Stack is much cheaper than VCE.

• The PaaS that we use as our web service.
• IaaS (VMs)
• SQL service
• Development
• Media service
• Firewall

Azure Stack is relatively new and lacks the features compared to public Azure. Hopefully, it will provide more core on the VM and support multi-scale units.

We primarily use the solution to include Deployments of VM security, Sentinel Storage, and VPN tunnels.

Azure Active Directory is the most valuable feature. 

The technical support team's response time needs improvement. 

I have been using Azure Stack for ten plus years. 

The stability is an eight out of ten. 

The pricing is reasonable. 

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

It resolves some security concerns. For instance, if the customer is a bank, they want the infrastructure to be under a data center.

We have experience in Azure Stack. Internally, the cost increases when you use Azure Stack because you have to buy services from providers like HP, for instance. So, more or less, it's more profitable to use the non-Azure Stack cloud services servers.

In some cases, we've seen that some financial software is not working correctly or compatible with Azure Stack. Many companies build this, but some third-party products may not be compatible with Azure Stack. So these are some areas of improvement. 

In future releases, there's some incompatibility with third-party software or connectors that need to be created.

The product is stable, unfortunately, if sizing is correctly repeated during the design phase. There's no issue in Azure Stack.

The support is quite excellent. 

Positive

The initial setup is easy. 

The provider deploys the solution. 

In some cases, it's difficult to calculate the licensing costs. All the cost is the big picture there because this concerns the capacity of Azure Stack and Azure Service as well.

it's a pay-as-you-go model. So, it has some concerns to define the cost.

We are providing services based on Azure – infrastructure services, fast services, and all these kinds of things.

Azure Stack is very good technology. You can use other Microsoft products, such as Nutanix as the virtualization layer or VMware, and then install all the products that other complex vendors are using – Cloud Service or Amazon Service.

The only issue is some performance issues. And with this concern, if you have to do the right sizing.

From my experience, this solution is suitable for enterprise companies because of the higher price, the cost is huge.

It has to do with capability. If you need all the features, you don't need to buy all the stuff upfront; you can go to the cloud service of Azure. So, in terms of cost, this is the only thing.

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.