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Microsoft Azure

byMicrosoft
in
4.3
Market Presence: Strategic Cloud Platform Services, Network Security Microsegmentation

Overview

Product Information on Microsoft Azure

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing software that offers a range of services including virtual machines, databases, networking, storage, artificial intelligence, and analytics. The software enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications across a global network of data centers. It allows users to scale resources as required and supports multiple operating systems and development frameworks. Azure provides tools for security, compliance, and disaster recovery to help address business continuity challenges. It is designed to support workloads from simple web hosting to complex data analysis, allowing businesses to optimize infrastructure management and operational efficiency.

Microsoft Azure Pricing

Microsoft Azure software uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where charges are based on usage of resources such as computing, storage, networking, and other services. The software also offers reserved instance pricing options for certain resources, enabling cost predictability over a fixed term. There are free tier options for eligible usage, and additional enterprise agreements for organizations seeking customized pricing and billing structures.

Overall experience with Microsoft Azure

DATA AND ANALYTICS MANAGER
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
FAVORABLE

“Offers Detailed Survey Text Analysis But Interface Presents Usability Challenges”

4.0
Sep 5, 2025
Overall, it is a pretty good tool to use. It helps us analyze open-ended text data from our surveys.
Data Engineer
250M - 500M USD, Banking
CRITICAL

“Azure AI services review ”

3.0
Dec 10, 2024
Azure offers a good service for AI development. Most use cases have direct services that are easy to use and maintain.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

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.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Performance of Microsoft Azure Across Market Features

Microsoft Azure Likes & Dislikes

Like

I like the ability to set up agents to be very specific when analyzing data. You can basically set a persona for the agent to analyze data or to help with a task. It also accepts large amounts of data as well. This is very helpful when looking at large datasets. The site being secure is also a HUGE plus for our organization.

Like

Very user friendly interface abstracting the most difficult parts of AI implementation.

Like

Azure storage explorer, Azure artifactory, Azure AI search

Dislike

The user interface is not intuitive. Users have to dig to find where to upload excel or .csv files for analysis. It also sometimes creates phantom responses. You have to be very specific when prompting to get accurate data.

Dislike

The documentation is very long and repetitive. The names of the services are not intuitive sometimes. The logs and cost management for each service is divided.

Dislike

Complex setup and pricing transperency could improve

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Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About Microsoft Azure

VP Hosting and Infrastructure Services
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Head of Product & Software Development
Azure. It’s a bit slow sometimes but it’s the future. We’re thinking about shifting every machine to the cloud in the next 1-2 years
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Microsoft Azure Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 12 ratings and reviews for Generative AI Infrastructure Providers (Transitioning to Generative AI Specialized Infrastructure) market. View all 2316 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.3

(12 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
50%
4 Star
42%
3 Star
8%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.8

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • DATA AND ANALYTICS MANAGER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Offers Detailed Survey Text Analysis But Interface Presents Usability Challenges

    4.0
    Sep 5, 2025
    Overall, it is a pretty good tool to use. It helps us analyze open-ended text data from our surveys.
  • IT MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Powerful AI platform with room for usability gains

    4.0
    Oct 3, 2025
    Implementation of Azure data storage, Azure platform services is extremely satisfactory
  • IT Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Robust, Scalable, and Secure Platform for Enterprise Data Engineering.

    5.0
    Jun 19, 2025
    As an Azure Data Engineer, My experience with Microsoft Azure has been exceptional. The platform offers a comprehensive and scalable suite of services that supports Enterprise-grade data engineering work loads. Overall Azure's reliability, performance, and eco-system wide suppoera are key reasons for my 5-star rating
  • DATA ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Seamless integration and security make Azure a leader in generating AI

    4.0
    Jan 21, 2025
    My overall experience with Azure AI generative ecosystem has been fabulous, I like its seamless integration within its azure ecosystem, its prebuilt APIs in azure open AI services simplifies the adoption of generative AI even for smaller team. Azure cognitive services provides us with pre-trained models that are very easy to integrate into applications without requiring in-depth AI knowledge, this helps the team to be confident in using the tool.
  • Data Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Azure AI services review

    3.0
    Dec 10, 2024
    Azure offers a good service for AI development. Most use cases have direct services that are easy to use and maintain.
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