Microsoft Azure Reviews

We have developed for our customers a website where they do onsite inspections of heavy moving equipment. They have the ability to build reports that are all web-based now and by clicking a button it goes out to their customers. This company is now starting to roll it out. They started in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa. They are currently expanding the system to Brazil and Australia. We had to move from on-premise solutions to a cloud-based system and this what we are using Azure for.

We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator.

The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier.

In an upcoming release, the interface could improve.

I have been using this solution for approximately two months.

Azure is reliable. I am doing other work for another company where I do not host it in Azure myself, but they have a U-systems running on Azure and it is operating all over the world. There are times when it can slow down a little but most of the time, it runs very smoothly.

We have two people using this solution in my organization.

I have one experience calling the technical support for Azure and the response was almost immediate, they are very good.

I have used AWS previously. Although AWS might be cheaper in some instances, I found it has an even worse configuration. You have to configure every detail, whereas with Azure it easier.

The installation was straightforward. Once you have a Microsoft ID everything else just falls into place.

I am currently on a pay-as-you-go subscription and my customers are going to be on a three-year contract. For what is offered in the three-year package it is quite reasonably priced. However, if I was to run it in my office from my own service it would be cheaper but the risk is too high. Here in South Africa, we have something called load shedding where the electricity is turned off for periods of time to regulate to load of the electricity being used. It can go off for five to six hours causing the batteries in the cell towers and fiber exchanges to start dropping and then the customers are offline.

This is why I have to move to a cloud platform that has generators, redundancy on fiber connections, and other mechanisms in place. It creates a lot of challenges for us.

Microsoft has two data centers in South Africa, one in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town. We will most likely be balancing between South Africa, Europe, and maybe even have a service in Australia.

I would advise others to do their research before they purchase any platform service. Everything could look fine on the surface but if you do not understand things, such as DPUs and flexible databases, you can run into some difficulties.

I rate Microsoft Azure an eight out of ten.

We are using this solution to provide backend services to our customers. I am not very technical but we are using the document and storage services of Azure.

I have been using this solution for approximately four years.

I have found Microsoft Azure to be stable. We have large corporate customers and it is working great.

This solution is highly scalable and this is one of the main reasons why we are using it. 

In our organization, we have five administrators using the solution. We are providing services to a few thousand clients on Azure infrastructure and we plan to increase usage.

The technical support has been very responsive in dealing with our issues.

The price of the solution could be cheaper.

Before we used this solution we evaluated other cloud platforms, such as Google and Amazon. We choose Azure due to data policy reasons.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft Azure a ten out of ten.

We help our customers to migrate from on-premises to Azure. 

We generally sell the infrastructure as a service, meaning we help our customers to migrate their on-premises VMware to cloud.

The process by which our customers can switch from one subscription to another should be simplified.

I cannot say for certain for how long we have been selling Microsoft Azure products, although I do know that we have been doing so for a long time. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

We are satisfied with the technical support. Customers who have signed up for premium service benefit from better support. 

The issue of installation does not concern us, as our job is solely to help our customers to migrate.

The licensing price is fine. We pay it on a monthly basis. 

The solution is cloud-based.

We feel the monitoring tools to be sufficient. The interface, monitoring and dashboard features are good. I cannot say for certain about the security features. 

While I cannot definitively say how many customers we have that are using Microsoft Azure, as I am not part of the production team, I do know that they comprise the majority.

I would recommend the solution to others contemplating its use. 

I rate Microsoft Azure as an eight out of ten. 

We use Microsoft Azure to host our software development solutions and solutions for reproduction.

We have many solutions running alongside Microsoft Azure that are mainly for the financial sector.

We use Microsoft Azure to host and develop.

It's great! It's very useful.

It has a separate environment for developers and developers' solutions. We have environments for PaaS and quality assurance, and we also have an environment where we can lend our solutions to our customers.

We like the Azure DevOps.

If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience.

It's very secure.

Microsoft Azure has incredible customization.

It's not user-friendly because it is made for developers. A normal user can't use it, but for a developer, it is a very friendly solution.

The initial setup can be improved. It should be simplified and made easier for developers to set it up.

I would like to see the use of Microsoft DevOps simplified. It's automation to develop and deploy software that is very difficult to use. It is so complicated and we need extra time to learn it. It is not easy. 

I have been working with Microsoft Azure since 2016.

We use the standard S3 applications.

Microsoft Azure is very reliable. It's a highly stable solution.

Microsoft Azure offers huge scalability. We can manage scalability automatically or manually. It is very fast and very reliable.

We have approximately 30 users in our organization who use Microsoft Azure.

The service is very good. They are highly technical and provide answers to things that are not easy to apply. Before the pandemic, at least, the support was good and very fast. 

We had some issues with support after the pandemic, where the replies took a very long time. Technical support could improve their response time. They should respond faster.

We use many Microsoft tools, such as Microsoft Teams, also Skype, and Google Meet.

The initials setup is difficult. It requires specialists. 

Similar to Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, it is complex.

It can take six to twelve months to deploy this solution.

We had help from specialists to help with the complex setup. It is not easy for everyone.

I would suggest calling a specialist who is certified to help with the setup and the deployment, don't do it yourself. The specialists are reliable and can deploy the solution faster.

I would rate Microsoft Azure a ten out of ten.

We have an internal system we are currently building. We use machine learning, where we are training models for extraction. You send a document or an invoice and move it to Azure using an endpoint, and then you get the extracted information. That is what we are currently doing. 

It is a reliable solution that is easy to set up. 

1.One is not able to upload custom images in azure and not able to access windows client images. This can be improved

2. It moves your business’ compute power from your data center or office to the cloud. As with most cloud service providers, Azure needs to be expertly managed and maintained, which includes patching and server monitoring.

I have used Microsoft Azure within the last 12 months.

Microsoft Azure is a stable and reliable solution.

AWS- It was trusted at the time since it was the longest serving

The initial setup was excellent.

In-House

It is affordable compared to other vendors

Before choosing Microsoft Azure, we evaluated AWS and GoDaddy.

I would recommend this solution to new users. If you want to get a free subscription or trial, it is quite good. Even for an organization, it is good because of the number of requests they offer in the free version. There are many.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Microsoft Azure an eight.

We use it for cloud adoption for medium and large companies. We are using its latest version.

It is really scalable and easy to use.

They should include a cybersecurity feature to improve the protection of the systems.

They could do better in terms of the pricing model. Its price keeps on changing. Their technical support can also be better. 

I have been working with this solution for a couple of years.

It is stable, and it works. It is not the best public cloud in terms of technology, but it does its job, and it does it well.

It is really scalable.

Their technical support is fair. It is something they can improve.

Its initial setup is very easy.

It provides a great ROI.

Its pricing model can be improved. It is variable, and if you do a simulation now, within a few months, the price can change, and your simulation would no longer be valid.

It is great for a new workload and if you are starting with new systems.

I would rate Microsoft Azure a seven out of ten.

We are using this solution for multiple purposes. For example, for a chatbot and for multiple authentications for service technologies we are developing.

The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated.

There could be more documentation and video tutorials to incorporate each and every feature. This way one can easily get the knowledge and implement it.

I have been using this solution for approximately three years.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 40 developers using the solution in my organization.

The technical support is good. 

The installation is straightforward.

There is a license for the solution.

We plan to continue using the solution in the future and I recommend it to others.

I rate Microsoft Azure an eight out of ten.

We use this solution to integrate with multiple versions of ServiceNow, for automatic ticket closure and ticket opening.

There are plenty of functions available that we have used extensively. It is a complete platform of services.

There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future.
They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well.

We would like to see more enhancements in the Azure Migrate services in the future.

I have been using the solution for approximately two years.

The solution is stable and has good performance.

I have all different kinds of clients, from small businesses to enterprises.

The setup was straightforward and the documentation is good.

The price of the solution is reasonable.

I rate Microsoft Azure a seven out of ten.