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Microsoft Azure Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

Microsoft Azure FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Microsoft Azure offer?

Microsoft Azure has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $1.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Public Administrations, Small Business


Q. What languages does Microsoft Azure support?

Microsoft Azure supports the following languages:
Italian, English, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Polish, Danish, German, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Russian, French, Korean


Q. Does Microsoft Azure support mobile devices?

Microsoft Azure supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone


Q. Does Microsoft Azure offer an API?

Yes, Microsoft Azure has an API available for use.


Q. What other apps does Microsoft Azure integrate with?

Microsoft Azure integrates with the following applications:
Retrace by Netreo, Citrix Workspace, Nerdio


Q. What level of support does Microsoft Azure offer?

Microsoft Azure offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Email/Help Desk, Chat

Microsoft Azure product overview

Price starts from

1

Per month

What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform designed to help organizations run virtual desktops and applications in the cloud. It offers businesses with built-in migration tools, which enables administrators to migrate remote desktop services (RDS) and Windows server desktops to various devices including smartphones, tablets and computers.

Key benefits of using Microsoft Azure

Start for free and scale as you go
Get started for free and scale up as your traffic grows. Build with ASP.NET, PHP or Node.js and deploy in seconds with FTP, Git or TFS.

Infrastructure on your terms
Easily deploy and run Windows Server and Linux virtual machines. Migrate applications and infrastructure without changing existing code.

Turnkey backend solutions for your mobile app
Accelerate your connected client app development. Incorporate structured storage, user authentication and push notifications in minutes.

Enterprise-grade cloud platform
Create highly-available, infinitely scalable applications and services using a rich Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment. Support multi-tier scenarios, automated deployments and elastic scale.

Get actionable insights from your data
Take advantage of a fully compatible enterprise-ready Hadoop service. This PaaS offering provides easy management and integrates with Active Directory and System Center.

Ingest, Encode, Protect, Stream
Create, manage and distribute media in the cloud. This PaaS offering provides everything from encoding to content protection to streaming and analytics support.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
24/7 (Live rep)
Email/Help Desk
Chat

Training options

Documentation
Live Online
Videos
Webinars

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Microsoft Azure features

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Total features

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Most valued features by users

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Third-Party Integrations
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Microsoft Azure users reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

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1.8K

Positive reviews

96

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Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.49/10
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Pros
The pleasure of sharing important content such as videos and graphics that I want to share in a comfortable, fast and secure way without any restrictions is invaluable.
Azure gives you the peace of mind of a super powerful machine with adequate storage for you to do your job.
Microsoft Azure is a great platform that provides secure and reliable data sources for our company which is very important. It is easy to use and very effective software.
Cons
In Brazil, being charged on a dollar basis is very expensive, it is difficult to pass this on to the customer. The recent 21% readjustment was abusive.
Also, if you forgot a DEV machine on over the night, with no need, you will be charged.
I received and email (turns out from a Bot) and this was ignored apart from a missed call from someone, who I then could not get hold of.

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Karan S.

Cybersecurity engineer

Accounting, 5,001-10,000 employees

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Excellent product with lots of functionalities and allows to secure data

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Grant W.

DevOps Engineer

Education Management, 51-200 employees

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Azure for Hosted VM's

Reviewed 3 years ago

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Mo F.

Information Services, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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One of the big three cloud providers.

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

I have 3 Azure certifications at the moment and will continue the Developer path. I like that Azure is an extension of our datacenter but allows us to do a lot more since they are constantly abstracting services in order to gain ease of management. An example of this can be seen with containers since you can deploy them to AKS and manage the nodes but if it's a simple deployment you can deploy to Azure Web Apps or Azure Container Instance. If you want a full AKS deployment but do not want to manage node updates then Azure ContainerApps is a good solution. I really like that they offer Azure Open AI so companies can leverage a chat-gpt like environment that's private while allowing companies to add their data inside their tenant and not out to a public / popular service.

Cons

Signing up to previews can be difficult and often needs to involve sales reps before doing so to make sure we can have access to products.

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Luke S.

Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Microsoft Azure - overall experience

Reviewed a month ago

The ability to be able to host our files for our websites for our customers it is very easy to use out of the box.

Pros

The ability to be able to host our files for our website.

Cons

There is nothing I have found at the moment.

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Anil K.

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Cloud Administrator

Reviewed 2 years ago

So if client required specifically use azure then we can use or we have premium support for azure then we can use it

Pros

Azure console is very user friendly and very fast, Creating the virtual using in azure is very easy, in security point of view it's very secure, high availability is also main feature of azure, In azure portal console is very fast.

Cons

For cost point of view azure is very expensive, for example if want to move one image to another image then we need to copy same copy on another region(), Azure support which is provided by mindtree is very poor , we raised a ticket and it's more than two month but not any solution. Azure default structure for cpu and memory is very weird.

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PHYLLIS WANJIKU G.

Furniture, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Pros and Cons of Microsoft Azure

Reviewed 3 months ago

It offers many services from storage to AI solutions which have proven powerful for my development projects, especially with its seamless integration with other Microsoft tools. However, my initial learning curve was challenging due to its vast services and pricing structures. Their security is a plus but their support channels feel bureaucratic at times.

Pros

If you're a developer who loves all things Microsoft, Azure feels familiar and much easier to start working on projects. It's secure, has everything you need to build, and lets you grow your projects as big (or small) as you need.

Cons

Azure's range of services can feel overwhelming for beginners, with a bit of a learning curve to navigate all the features and their pricing structures.

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Kalonishay S.

Pharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Value for money
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  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Microsoft

Reviewed 24 days ago

GREAT love Microsoft very much and easy to use

Pros

Very helpful especially for people who don't know how to navigate Microsoft

Cons

No dislikes about Microsoft at all love it

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