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Updated 13th October 2025
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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.
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Overall, Azure is not that great to me in some areas and excellent in others. VM's work great. Never had an issue running a vm. Try to start adding backups, networks, redundancy etc.... this get complicated really quick. Microsoft seems like that really want to purposely keep things complex on purpose. It is never easy to find what you need. Security is in a bunch of different places. Also, everything when you think you learned where something is, Microsoft deprecates it or moves it somewhere else.
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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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1975
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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. - 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. - It Services Associate<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Migrating to Azure Centralizes IT Operations but Presents Cost Control Challenges
For several years we have used Azure for most of our infrastructure, with excellent results after migrating our on-premises services to the platform. Azure has proven to be reliable and scalable. Its suite of native services has allowed us to centralize workloads with a single cloud provider, which has simplified operations and reduced operating costs. From our IT perspective, the platform has proven stable, with very limited service interruptions over time. Currently, Azure is not just a provisioning environment for us, but a long-term IT strategy - Manager Of It Services1B-10B USDTransportationReview Source
Microsoft Azure Delivers Strong Integration and Security With a Steep Learning Curve
My overall experience with Microsoft Azure has been positive, particularly in the areas of scalability, integration with existing Microsoft ecosystems, and comprehensive security. Azure's widespread global data centers improve performance, redundancy and disaster recovery options. While powerful, Azure has a steep learning curve. With so many policies and configurations, sometimes you can find it overwhelming. - Director, It Security And Risk Managemen50M-1B USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
The initial complexity of using Azure contrasts with its flexible and robust integration.
My experience using Azure was quite positive. It has a high degree of maturity, is very stable and reliable, and internally offers a wide variety of services that cover everything from basic infrastructure to very advanced solutions with data integration, analytics, and AI. It boasts high availability, performance, and very high security standards. For new users, it may seem quite complex at first.
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