Microsoft Azure Reviews

I am a Microsoft-certified Azure Admin. I manage Azure infrastructure as well as AWS infrastructure.

The management part of it is good. Its UI is simple to use. The cost management and billing part is also good. These are the top things that I like in Azure.

The alerts management should be improved. Alerts management is very complicated to configure. You have to go through a lot of tests and config action groups to set up those things. It is very complicated, and it can be simplified.

It is good to start with, but as the complexity increases, the usability needs to improve. We are managing only 40 virtual machines, so we are able to make use of the portal.

The VPN part can also be improved. If you want to set up multi-factor authentication for VPN clients, it is not so easy. The documentation is not so simple for multi-factor authentication.

I would like to see Azure Data Factory simplified. It is very complex. If they can simplify the data integration part inside Azure, it would be great. They should design simpler integration. They can also have a new service and keep Data Factory as it is. 

I have been using Microsoft Azure for close to five years.

A few years ago, it was unstable, but I've not seen any issues off late. A lot of new features are being added to Microsoft Azure, but I have not seen any stability issues.

The old services are stable. We recently saw a security issue published online. So, the new services might be less stable, but I wouldn't say it is not stable.

I manage that part. Getting support is very painful because tickets get assigned to different countries. People are in different time zones, which is clearly complicated. Each service is managed by different teams situated in different countries, and synchronizing with them is pretty complicated.

It was straightforward. 

It is good for a person who is trying it for the first time. There are some solutions, such as CSP, for which they provide direct support. There are some ways to minimize the complexity. You should go through a party that can provide this kind of knowledge before you decide on it.

I would rate Microsoft Azure a seven out of 10.

I am a system integrator and some of my customers are using Microsoft Azure for one server and others are using 10 servers. I have a few customers that are only using the Office 365 services within Microsoft Azure.

I have found all the features to be good.

I have been using Microsoft Azure for approximately one year.

The solution is stable.

Microsoft Azure is scalable.

The technical support is good, but the response time is poor.

The initial setup is easy.

The price of the solution is reasonable.

I rate Microsoft Azure an eight out of ten.

Our primary use case of Azure is for customer facing systems, it's hosted over mobile apps and is used for scaling up and down. We partner with Microsoft and I'm the head of IT infrastructure. 

The platform as a service is a strong feature. The solution also does quite a lot of coding and customization, you can launch it quickly and go live quickly. It's easy to develop, easy to hold space and to maintain.

If you're not aware of how things work with Azure, it's not easy to understand. It's not clear for customers and sometimes even for Microsoft people themselves. The high cost of the solution is linked to that issue.

I've been using this solution for three years. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

Technical support could definitely be improved. 

The initial setup is straightforward, we use a third party for that. 

I rate the solution eight out of 10. 

Microsoft Azure is an directory and identity management solution in the cloud, similar to an access gateway.

It has enable me to secure our office 365 tenant

Multifactor authentication, cloud App security. The features are easy to manage within the cloud application, has good performance, and is secure.

The solution could improve by being more user-friendly.

I have been using this solution for approximately four years.

The solution is stable.

very good

The technical support has been responsive but sometimes the agent does not have the knowledge required for the proper immediate assistance.

we are previously using Hosted Exchange. We migrated in other to take advantage of rich collaborative features of o365

Initial setup was straightforward. Migration managed with out issue

In -house

95%

We are on an annual subscription. However, there are other options available.

The smooth operation of the solution depends on the ability of the administrator. How the infrastructure is deployed overall and how it is optimized.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Azure an eight out of ten.

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.

In my country, many organizations want to migrate their operations to the cloud. This is why we are using Microsoft Azure.

I have been using this solution for approximately one year.

The solution is stable.

Microsoft Azure is scalable in my experience.

Approximately 1,000 use this solution.

The technical support has been good.

We also have customers using AWS.

The installation is easy.

We did the implementation of the solution.

The pricing of the solution could be reduced. We are not able to create a free account in my country.

I recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Azure a ten out of ten.

The information is confidential, so I cannot discuss what we use Microsoft Azure for. 

The diagnostics should have more logs. We must pay a surcharge for our dependence on the Azure monitor. Each platform comes with its own logs. 

The stability is good. There is compliance with the SLAs and we have not encountered any issues in this domain. 

The scalability is fine and this option exists with many of our products. 

I have not had occasion to make use of technical support. 

The initial setup is simple. It's not a big deal.

There are added costs to the company or for scaling for most premium products. 

I did not really evaluate other solutions before going with Microsoft Azure. 

We work off an app service environment. We are end-users of Microsoft, although my specific role is in IT architecture. 

I rate Microsoft Azure as an eight out of ten. 

We use Microsoft Azure as a cloud-based platform.

The solution has made operations for our organizations better by offering flexibility and integration with multiple other products.

The solution is very flexible, it is not limited to Microsoft solutions. It integrates well with other solutions, such as Oracle. There are a lot of templates we are able to use allowing us to reduce the time for configuration.

The solution could improve by simplifying network management. 

I have been using the solution within the past 12 months.

The solution is very easy to scale.

The price of the solution can be expensive.

I rate Microsoft Azure a nine out of ten.