Overview

Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft in 2010. Azure provides cloud-computing software, software as a service (SaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Azure has been marketed across several products:

  • Azure App Service - A set of SaaS services that support web applications, mobile apps, API apps, batch processing, and analytics.
  • Azure Media Services - Provides content publishing services, including media encoding/transcoding, video streaming/transcoding/processing to clients like OTT devices and media players over the internet. It also provides storage for raw files and media assets along with metadata about them in industry-standard formats such as DASH-META or MPEG-DASH using an HLS extension called HLS+. We have collected Microsoft Azure Reviews for you to get a better understanding of the product's advantages and disadvantages. Here you go:

Pros and Cons

  • Hyper-scale storages
  • Wide applications and reach
  • Perfect application hosting
  • Manage own relational database
  • Terrific 3rd party integrations
  • Can have more detailed documentation
  • Limited visibility on the security
  • Lack of virtual machine console
  • Difficulty troubleshooting

Summary

One of the main reasons why Microsoft Azure is a leading cloud computing platform is because it offers endless cloud possibilities to businesses of all sizes and kinds. It is an essential tool for businesses that need to store large amounts of data and make them available to multiple users at any time. But there are also some downsides of cloud computing that you should consider before making the switch.

Comments

I like everything about Azure cloud services, their flexibility to be used in 1000 different ways and their scalability. It provides a wide range of applications like Azure functions, Cognitive services for data science applications. But I also feel Microsoft’s Azure is a little costly compared to other powerful tools like Talygen and Oracle.

Harry Schumacher
January 22, 2024

Our company functions in a hybrid working model. And since most of our workforce is working remotely, Azure’s cloud computing software tools are nothing but a blessing. It helps us coordinate and finish the job quickly.

Tim Santiago
January 14, 2024

The lack of virtual machine console access is a big disappointment. It would struggle the troubleshooting, especially if you do a migration of an on-premise virtual machine to Azure. Otherwise, the UI and customer support team is cool.

Samantha Carlson
January 12, 2024