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Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides a range of cloud services, including those for compute, analytics, storage, and networking, allowing users to pick and choose from these services to develop and scale new applications, or run existing applications, in the public cloud.

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674 Microsoft Azure Reviews
4.3 out of 5
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Nov 14, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
RM
Rasik M.
Software Developer
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"Azure SQL Database Service"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Cost-effective. Eliminates hardware costs Less maintenance Low latency

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Windows authentication is not available in the Azure-SQL Also will be helpful if extended stored-procedures and also the table partitioning been added

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure SQL service has dedicated teams which focuses mainly to ensure the protection of the data centers, hardware, and services. Helpful in easy migration.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 11, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Sarthak R. avatar
Sarthak R.
Nlp Intern
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"Ideal DB for an app that is expected to an undecided scale"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Very, very scalable and easy to build reliable cloud apps with. Also reliable and secure enough to store userbase login details on. If you pick up SQL once, it's easy to use.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

New hires require dedicated training to learn Azure SQL DB if not trained already. Although there aren't any competitors that are any simpler. Relational databases are inherently limited in capability too.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Takes away the headache of hosting a DB instance yourself. We used Azure SQL DB for deploying our ecommerce app. Both our user and product data live on it and we haven't had any problems.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 27, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
pooja u. avatar
Pooja U.
Metadata Analyst
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"Azure SQL Database"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

What is like most of Azure SQL database is that it is effortless to deploy and maintain. The cloud offering takes away the need for the infrastructure and physical servers. SQL database comes with high reliability, advanced security and scalability. Overall its a great service offering.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Azure SQL database is a great product and nothing to dislike

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

At Quest, we are using the Azure SQL database for creating and managing the backend repository for the Erwin Data Intelligence tool. It is very easy to login into the Azure portal and create an SQL database instance. Azure SQL cloud service comes with the backup and snapshot feature that allows us to quickly stand up an instance using the backup in cases of data loss. It is easily scalable by adding additional storage and rezise of the database.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Sep 16, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Brilliant, Flexible & Organized"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

I think the best part about using Azure is the fact that it is versatile and all the required functions fit in well.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

basically nothing. The integrations are really good, and all functions are covered.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automation - pipelines. code reviews & quality - with pull requests and automatic deployments & releases

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 12, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Microsoft Azure Review"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud based software application to manage the Large amount of data. It provides a wide range of services to store large amount of data and can be used for data analytics

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Azure provides very reliable storage service as Amazon Web Services (AWS) provided. Azure is chargeable per minute basis , it's costly than AWS.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Azure is very secure and fast. It is flexible and more integrated. It has solved the analytical problems and made easier to use the cloud based computing.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 11, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Azure simple and easy"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Azure allows organizations to customize the cloud software to meet business requirement.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Cost compared to other service provider is bit high.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure provides services more secured way easy and customizable configuration based on requirements or bussiness needs.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 23, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
atul b. avatar
Atul B.
Software Engineer
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"Azure Cloud Services"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Serverless Computing, On demand scalability, Integration of pipeline

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

For beginners cost of some services is high who are trying to learn and explore Azure.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Move data from on-premise to cloud and CI/CD using Azure Pipeline deployment.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 17, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Have everything on cloud with security as you need"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is one stop solution for cloud storage any format of file to buying licence for embedding or for app registrations. Azure allows to create security groups for maintaining active directory groups for an organization to maintain security. It even provides ETL tool named Azure Data Factory.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Azure costs almost for each and every service it provides. And the cost shoots up like anything if proper precaution are not taken.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

It reolved the licensing issue for Power BI embedding. It even helped to lift amd shift SSIS packages from on prem to cloud and to maintain security groups for sharing content.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 16, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Jithu C. avatar
Jithu C.
Senior Technical Manager
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"Powerful database with lots of tools to diagnose issues and recommendations"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Index recommendations, hot queries detection, flexibility to switch between vCore and DTU based, sharding support.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

No such bad experience though I would recommend maybe better at DTU based model for IO operations as most of the time we felt the database is underutilized.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps to maintain our application data securely but at the same time making it better for faster retrieval and cheaper when compared with a private cloud hosting model.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 16, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"It was an amazing experience. It’s smooth and interface is amazing"
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Interface is the best and it is very user friendly

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Could be a little more prompt. The ribbons are a bit cluttered.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's making my work easier to handle and it gives me comfort

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