Azure Search Reviews

Name: Azure Search
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 3.7 (8 reviews)

Vendor: Microsoft

3.7 out of 5

8 reviews
62% willing to recommend

103 followers

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What is Azure Search?

Azure Search is a search-as-a-service cloud solution that gives developers APIs and tools for adding a rich search experience over your data in web, mobile, and enterprise applications. Functionality is exposed through a simple REST API or .NET SDK that masks the inherent complexity of search technology. In addition to APIs, the Azure portal provides administration and prototyping support. Infrastructure and availability are managed by Microsoft.

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Azure Search is the #5 ranked solution in top Search as a Service vendors. PeerSpot users give Azure Search an average rating of 7.4 out of 10. Azure Search is most commonly compared to Elastic Search: Azure Search vs Elastic Search. Azure Search is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 64% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Featured Azure Search reviews

Mohamed Heikal

Responsable TUIC at MISSION LAIQUE FRANCAISE

We use the solution to link the Active Directory account to Office 365 The solution's most valuable features are Word, Excel, and documentation. The solution's stability and support could be better. We have been using the solution for three to four years. I rate the solution's stability a six…

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Sandeep Srirangam

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Diebold Nixdorf

I use the solution mainly to search the logs and to search for VMs by their names or subscription names. I wouldn't rate it great since the logs are a bit complicated The solution was really pretty good. The customer engagement was good. The presented documentation or exposure to the APIs to get…

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Shane Archibald

Cybersecurity Instructor at Gwinnett Technical College

I have had experience with Azure technical support. Sometimes they do a really good job and sometimes it is hard to reach them or get a quicker response. On a scale of one to ten, I think I could probably give the tech support only a six. It is not completely disappointing and not as good as it might be.

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Azure Search mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of Azure Search in the Search as a Service category stands at 13.0%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The product is pretty resilient."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"Azure Search is well-documented, making it easy to understand and implement."

Room for Improvement

"The after-hour services are slow."
"The solution's stability could be better."
"The pricing is room for improvement."

Pricing

"The cost is comparable."
"The solution is affordable."
"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, where one is the low price, and ten is the high price."

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