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Microsoft Azure
What Is Microsoft Azure?
Azure is a comprehensive computing platform, providing cloud infrastructure, products and services, developer tools, and innovations in data and AI. Azure has unique on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, and edge capabilities that offer you the flexibility to innovate anywhere.
Developers can use their favorite languages, open-source frameworks, and tools to code and deploy. Modernize your IT, grow your business, and unlock insights from your data with the scale and security Azure provides.
Who Uses Microsoft Azure?
We believe that the success made possible by the cloud must be accessible to every business and every organization - small and large, old and new.
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Reviews of Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure - A Complete Cloud services Provider
Comments: Excellent . Its a whole together new world of cloud services
Pros:
Plethora of features, cloud services you ened to setup your application , environment , labs and whatnot
Cons:
Sometimes with so many services and features at your disposal , it takes time to get acquainted with the product.
Good but expensive.
Comments: Overall an extremely powerful and well integrated service. With the right licensing you can build and operate a well moving and redundant system.
Pros:
Lots of quick integrations and prebuilt features for bringing on other tools and building a microsoft based stack.
Cons:
Hidden pay walls with various pieces of services hidden behind tiering and no good definition of what goes where.
Use for hosting
Comments: We use Azure to host our clients databases.
Pros:
I can access all my clients databases easily.
Cons:
Sometimes can be slow and freezes up which is frustrating.
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Pros and Cons of Microsoft Azure
Comments: It offers many services from storage to AI solutions which have proven powerful for my development projects, especially with its seamless integration with other Microsoft tools. However, my initial learning curve was challenging due to its vast services and pricing structures. Their security is a plus but their support channels feel bureaucratic at times.
Pros:
If you're a developer who loves all things Microsoft, Azure feels familiar and much easier to start working on projects. It's secure, has everything you need to build, and lets you grow your projects as big (or small) as you need.
Cons:
Azure's range of services can feel overwhelming for beginners, with a bit of a learning curve to navigate all the features and their pricing structures.
Virtual Infrastructure for a reasonable cost
Pros:
It's easy to understand the costs, provision VDI and Virtual Machines, and get them running in a matter of minutes, with RBAC and data security enabled.
Cons:
There is a STEEP learning curve to understand what is needed, how to deploy, and the vNets
