Name: Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
Rating: 4.1 (32 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Microsoft Azure Cloud Services?

Microsoft Azure Cloud Services is a software platform that enables the development, deployment, and management of applications through a global network of data centers. The software provides solutions for computing, analytics, storage, and networking, supporting various programming languages, frameworks, and tools. With both infrastructure as a service and platform as a service capabilities, the software assists organizations in building scalable and reliable applications. It addresses business needs such as data storage, backup, disaster recovery, and application hosting, while offering integration with on-premises environments. The software also facilitates workload automation, security, and identity management as part of its core capabilities.

Overall experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services

MANAGER, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT

250M - 500M USD, Manufacturing

FAVORABLE

“Azure Cloud's Seamless Integration: Benefitting Active Directory Users”

4.0

Aug 2, 2024

i am using Azure Cloud and it is very seamless integration with on-prem active directory users with Single Sign on

Analyst

1B - 3B USD, Retail

CRITICAL

“Service meets our requirements but things can get pricey.”

3.0

Apr 17, 2019

We started using Azure cloud services at the end of 2018. It was a mutual decision to move to Azure cloud services to be able to group all Microsoft related products/services together for a cost savings. The overall services seem to be great; however, they seem pricey compared to other cloud service providers. Also, they appear not enterprise ready.

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Company Description

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

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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Single sign on with active directory users and 365 email email users where you can maintain a single password for each login and maintain security compliance. Also we have disaster plan for BCP.

It works, it seems stable so far, and it's reliable.

Easy to implement and azure cloud powershell scripting for template creation

Some users still asking for multi factor authentication while i have implemented single sign on features. Since i have a E1 and E2 licenses but Microsoft force to purchase E3 license to resolve such type of issues. Microsoft license too expensive

There are options that are standard in other places that are an extra step or an extra cost with Azure. Turning off the machine from within the OS or command line interface does not deallocate resources. You have to deliberately press the stop button. Don't get me wrong I understand this improves speed and reliability; however, other cloud service providers give you the option to deallocate the resources when the machine is off and not in use. This issue leads to additional cost. Also, there are options and things you can do with powershell, azure CLI, etc., that you can not do from the GUI. An example being swapping OS disk. I could see the appeal of swapping disk via a scripted method, but let me do it from the GUI as well.

Nothing as such but cost where they can think of.

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4.1

(32 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star: 28%
4 Star: 59%
3 Star: 9%
2 Star: 3%
1 Star: 0%

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

3.9

Planning & Transition

4.4

Delivery & Execution

4.3

Service Capabilities

4.4

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MANAGER, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
50M-1B USD
Manufacturing
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Azure Cloud's Seamless Integration: Benefitting Active Directory Users
4.0
Aug 2, 2024
i am using Azure Cloud and it is very seamless integration with on-prem active directory users with Single Sign on
Sr Automation QA Engineer
1B-10B USD
IT Services
Review Source
Growing & Easy to implement cloud service provider
4.0
Mar 3, 2020
Easy to use and easy to adapt, specially in migration of your native apps into cloud using lift n shift (Virtual MAchine)
Software Developer
50M-1B USD
IT Services
Review Source
Very flexible and fast growing cloud hosting solution
5.0
Jan 10, 2020
Used Azure for deploying my .NET application which used MVC as architectural patter and SQL server as backend database. very easy to deploy and fast also. best part Is it is very handy with any Microsoft products, provides familiar environment for existing Microsoft users .very easy to build and deploy applications.
Cloud Architect
1B-10B USD
Healthcare and Biotech
Review Source
The Cloud vs IaaS/Private Cloud
4.0
Nov 6, 2019
Overall, my experiences are good when employing technology services as PaaS resources. When employing IaaS, Azure begins to providing a similar capability to on-premise systems and looses its strategic advantage over any on-premise data centers and mask to the true advantage of the cloud.
Associate Test Consultant
50M-1B USD
IT Services
Review Source
Easy to install, use and repair, Negligible bugs and durable performance even at high load
5.0
Aug 28, 2019
User enriched Interface, easy to understand controls of the storage explorer and a reliable technology from one of the the biggest brand in IT industry.

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