Microsoft Azure Reviews & Product Details

Its great that they have hooks to azure blob storage

Its an overly obnoxious windows product that asks for confirmations on every upload. Really wish they had an easy FTP mode like WinSCP...

I use it as a simple way to upload to blob and it works well for that, but it is still a lot more clicks than I would like.

I actually used Azure virtual machines to run large Excel files that were crashing my local machine. It was great!

The service tiers are designed primarily around server-related tasks, so for my own purposes, I could never find quite the right tier to provision.

Excel files were crashing my local machine, so I needed a better way to execute my formulas.

I like to use AI + Machine Learning-based services such as Computer Vision, Azure ML and Cognitive Services APIs. They are easy to integrate and are cost-effective

The accuracy or performance metrics of some AI-based services are not satisfactory compared to other Cloud services. For example STT, Speech Translation. Need to improvise

Azure is trying to create services out of common real issues such as Anomaly Detector which is almost essential for services or products that are facing real-time streaming data

Cloud flexibility with API and seamless integration of existing cloud software.

Nothing really. Perhaps the logo.very functional as an app

Cloud computing, mobile computing, enterprise computing

Login capabilities amongst different programs that allows for SSO.

I can't think of anything that I dislike.

Connecting smartsheet with Microsoft login

Overall its easy to setup and run virtual machines within the azure platform. You get instant access to additional azure platform services that you can integrate.

Overall azure pricing can be a tad bit costly, I did try development using the azure platform but in the end I treated the VM as just any old vm service's server.

I used azure for development environments for testing out customer products and code before shipping them out.

What I like best is that its container orchestration solution that best suits my needs.

The only thing I dislike is the possible privacy issues since it is a public cloud without having provision to manage.

It is most helpful because it is cloud based for companies and manages a service on its own.

I like that PostgreSQL is a lot more manageable and more efficient for big projects

I dislike that there is no real-time database like how there is with firebase.

We’re solving the use of manageability with Azure.

I like the PAAS functionality. It has a lot of features I use.

The UI is not the best and they are limited on the types of VMs you can have.

Cloud housing

Needed some help to set up, but not too bad to use

There was a lot of setup, which I needed some help with

We use it to communicate across OS’s

I really like it that Microsoft not only supports but also embraces other open-source applications on their Azure platform. They really encouraged the open source community database engines to go to Azure and fully be supported in the cloud.

Their touted migration of either MySQL or PostgreSQL to the Azure Database for MySQL or PostgreSQL has been delayed.

Being able to set up web apps that include PostgreSQL and being able to automate the deplomwnt of my web app + database with ARM templates.

Azure allows infrastructure and virtual machine management from anywhere. Since the product is integrated into Microsoft 365, there is no need to manage separate logins. After a year of using the product very heavily, there have been no outages.

There is a number of features that I would expect in a hosted solution that Azure simply doesn't offer. Some of these are very basic expectations, for instance, there is no ability to open the console of a virtual machine in Azure, you can only connect via RDP. You can view screenshots of the console, but this is my no means equal to viewing the actual console. This makes system upgrades, especially on non Microsoft OSes, more complex than necessary. Additionally, you cannot boot from an ISO in Azure. This severely limits your ability to install and configure non-Microsoft systems. We have also experienced unexplained performance issues on database systems. We have purchased the highest level of virtual hardware, but the systems are still much slower than they should be. Pricing can also be confusing and result in some unexpected charges.

We have eliminated the need to implement and maintain server hardware onsite. Azure also makes it easy to allow access to servers from anywhere in the world for users working remotely.

I like the IDEA of this software--test something out in virtual machine form first, before committing to a change permanently.

I hate the execution of this software--instead of providing any significant value add, it just ends up being yet another buggy software to install.

It is nice to be able to test new OS before installing it. We have a lot of company specific software that might have compatability issues if we installed upgrades immediately.

Well known name brings confidence to user

Extremely complicated, too many layers,

Supposed to be solving a structural need but always get notices from it saying we have a redis cache issue with no other explanation and site outages