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Microsoft Azure

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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:
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

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Q. What languages does Microsoft Azure support?

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

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Q. Does Microsoft Azure support mobile devices?

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

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Q. Does Microsoft Azure offer an API?

Yes, Microsoft Azure has an API available for use.

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Q. What other apps does Microsoft Azure integrate with?

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

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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

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Microsoft Azure product overview

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

Functionality

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73

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Most valued features by users

API
Third Party Integrations
Reporting/Analytics
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Monitoring
Data Visualization
Real Time Monitoring

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Microsoft Azure users reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

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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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Grant W.

DevOps Engineer

Education Management, 51-200 employees

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Azure for Hosted VM's

Reviewed a year ago

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Grant W.: Hi, there. My name's Grant. I'm a DevOps engineer. I think I would give Microsoft Azure four...

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Karan Preet S.

cybersecurity developer

Accounting, 10,001+ employees

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Excellent product with lots of functionalities and allows to secure data

Reviewed 4 months ago

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Karan P.: Hello. My name is Karan. I'm currently working as a cybersecurity consultant. I would like...

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Luke F.

Construction, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Great Cloud Service

Reviewed 8 months ago
Pros

We really love how easy it is to get virtual machines set up in Azure and the power that we have in using Azure. The support is excellent and we are able to deploy and complete many tasks when we need them.

Cons

We don't like the cost structure as much as other competitors' ways of offering their services.

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Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Review about Microsoft Azure

Reviewed 12 days ago

Microsoft Azure is widely recognized as a powerful and comprehensive cloud computing platform. It offers a vast array of services and features that cater to the diverse needs of businesses and developers. Azure's scalability allows users to easily scale their resources up or down based on demand, providing flexibility and cost optimization. Its global presence ensures that users can deploy their applications...

Pros

Sharing important content like videos and graphics easily, quickly, and securely without any limitations brings me immense joy.

Cons

I received an email from a bot, which I ignored. I also received a missed call from someone, but I couldn't reach them when I tried to call back.

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Farhad S.

Research, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Understanding the Benefits and Features of Microsoft Azure

Reviewed a month ago

Overall I can say Microsoft Azure is a highly performant cloud computing platform that offers a wide range of services and tools for businesses to build, deploy, and manage our applications and services.

Pros

Flexibility because Azure provides a wide range of tools and services that can be used for various use cases and scenarios, making it easy for businesses to choose the services that best fit our needs.

Cons

In my opinion, the price structure is a little confusing and difficult to estimate.

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Luca S.

Pharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Microsoft Azure best in class solution for cloud services

Reviewed 4 months ago

Azure provide a wide range of services that cover almost all the need of companies to manage their business on IT perspective. Security , reliability, availability and service level agreement are on top of the market.

Pros

Microsoft Azure provide a huge variety of cloud services and tools to cover all the needs of a big company. Because of the recent trend request to move more and more services and solutions into the cloud, Azure provided to the company the best experience to grant the continuity of business, drastically reducing the TCO of IT.

Cons

It's not simple to evaluate in advance the real cost of "pay-per-use" model. Too many times for companies the cost overwhelm the estimation provided at the beginning of a cloud service implementation

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Commercial Real Estate, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Cloud Computing

Reviewed a month ago

One of the best method to manage users in your domain when compared to other features or availability like AWS. Cost effective when compared to AWS.

Pros

We are using Azure for user based management for profile login the basic and almost features what we like was ease of authentication and login. Coustomer support is one of the best thing in azure(Quick and best resolution).

Cons

User interface of Microsoft Azure was bit disgusting and it takes time to adopt to all the features available and for new users also it will be difficult to learn quickly.

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