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Updated 13th October 2025
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Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, EducationFAVORABLE
“Extensive features and seamless integration, but steep learning curve for newcomers”
Microsoft Azure is one of the best cloud computing platform available for the businesses, educational institution or even government organizations with the top-notch services like data management, infrastructure, security management, applications and digital transformation initiatives. Microsoft Azure has many strong areas and one of the is identity management. Businesses or companies can check the details of all the permissions, activities or processes through identity management like access control, security policies user authentication and single sign-on through Microsoft Entra ID. Identity management helps businesses to improve both user experience and security. Metered Billing is the payment model used by the Microsoft Azure and in this model payment amount is calculated on the basis of resource consumption. Through this model businesses avoid paying for the large infrastructure costs upfront. As Azure has many data centers in multiple regions of the world so it has extensive global coverage. Because of its global network, businesses easily provide strong services closer to their users. Microsoft Azure also provides strong recovery and backup management features which helps organizations to get automatic backups of their files, databases, applications and other important information in a short period of time during unexpected events or data loss.
Forensic Analyst
<50M USD, IT ServicesCRITICAL
“Granular User Controls Stand Out While Azure Pricing Remains a Concern”
My experience with Azure has been OK. It's simple to use at a basic level and allows a great deal of customization of roles for users and computers on the admin side. On the user sude, Azure servers and connected computers are very easy to remote into and use off-premises. Azure is expensive, though. I'd not recommend it for people with smaller wallets.
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Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.
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Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
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Extensive features and seamless integration, but steep learning curve for newcomers
Microsoft Azure is one of the best cloud computing platform available for the businesses, educational institution or even government organizations with the top-notch services like data management, infrastructure, security management, applications and digital transformation initiatives. Microsoft Azure has many strong areas and one of the is identity management. Businesses or companies can check the details of all the permissions, activities or processes through identity management like access control, security policies user authentication and single sign-on through Microsoft Entra ID. Identity management helps businesses to improve both user experience and security. Metered Billing is the payment model used by the Microsoft Azure and in this model payment amount is calculated on the basis of resource consumption. Through this model businesses avoid paying for the large infrastructure costs upfront. As Azure has many data centers in multiple regions of the world so it has extensive global coverage. Because of its global network, businesses easily provide strong services closer to their users. Microsoft Azure also provides strong recovery and backup management features which helps organizations to get automatic backups of their files, databases, applications and other important information in a short period of time during unexpected events or data loss. - DEVELOPER FOR WEBMETHODS, MS POWERPLATFO50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
A strong enterprise-ready platform for generative AI adoption, especially for existing Azure customers
We started using Microsoft Azure several years ago for general cloud workloads and more recently began using it to support generative AI use cases. Our main focus has been experimenting with Azure OpenAI services and running AI-related workloads alongside existing applications. One advantage for us was that we didn't need to introduce a completely new platform; we could build on infrastructure and identity management we already had in Azure. - Sr. Systems Administrator50M-1B USDMediaReview Source
Microsoft Azure Offers Broad Services But Portal Stability Remains a Challenge
One of the great things we like about Microsoft Azure is that it has a consistent identity and access infrastructure whether it be Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access, everything works in sync. Another thing is simplified lifecycle operations, like for VM's it has native support for managed disks, backups, monitoring etc. Security is also great, you can have rule based NSGs at the subnet and NIC level. App services are good and offer multiple deployment slots, environment separations and rollbacks. - Software Development Manager1B-10B USDFinance (non-banking)Review Source
Effective for Security and Segmentation Yet Challenging During Initial Configuration
overall experience with the product is good. It provides better visibility and control over network traffic and helps improve security by restricting unnecessary communication between systems. The policy management and segmentation features are useful, especially for complex environments. Initial setup and configuration can take some time, but overall the product is effective and reliable for strengthening network security. - Senior It Manager<50M USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
Scalable and Powerful AI-ready cloud platform with strong performance but requires careful cost management
I was directly involved in the full lifecycle of adopting Microsoft Azure, from evaluation to implementation as part of transitioning to cloud based AI infrastructure. The platform enables rapid deployment and strong performance across Azure Gen AI services - like Azure OpenAI service, GPU-based VMs, AKS, and Azure AI Search service. This helps us to achieve a lot of automation within the organization to eliminate manual efforts put for analysis and business process mapping.
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