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Microsoft Azure Cloud Services

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4.1

Overview

Service Information on Microsoft Azure Cloud Services

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.

Microsoft Azure Cloud Services Pricing

Microsoft Azure Cloud Services software utilizes a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on resource consumption, including compute, storage, networking, and additional services. Customers may select from various pricing tiers, reserved capacity options, and specialized plans, which can be billed monthly. Pricing may vary depending on service type, usage, location, and configuration.

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.

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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Microsoft Azure Cloud Services Likes & Dislikes

Like

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.

Like

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

Like

Easy to implement and azure cloud powershell scripting for template creation

Dislike

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

Dislike

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.

Dislike

Nothing as such but cost where they can think of.

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Microsoft Azure Cloud Services Reviews and Ratings

4.1

(32 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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28%
4 Star
59%
3 Star
9%
2 Star
3%
1 Star
0%
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3.9

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4.4

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4.3

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  • MANAGER, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    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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