Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Arc

Composite Score

8.9 /10

CX Score

9.2 /10

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What is Microsoft Azure Arc?

Manage your applications and services in multi-cloud environments. Azure Arc helps you make the most of the cloud by providing tools to develop and operate cloud-native apps on any platform.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Arc won the following awards in the Cloud Management category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Product Impact

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Microsoft Azure Arc Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

99 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Arc?

2% Negative

3% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Helps Innovate
Security Protects
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Cloud Integration

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Capacity Management

Self Service Cloud Services

Configuration Validation

Performance Monitoring Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Application Release Automation

Cloud Migration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Microsoft Azure Arc Reviews

Monika K.

Role: Public Sector
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2022

Robust Development Platform.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Arc from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform that enables customers to develop, deploy, and manage applications. It offers the most comprehensive set of services for the development and management of applications in the cloud. Azure provides a wide range of services ranging from compute, Storage, networking to AI/ML services such as cognitive services and Azure Machine Learning (AML).

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Microsoft Azure is its scalability. With Azure, I can easily scale my services up or down based on customer demand. It also provides a lot of flexibility in terms of pricing and usage plans which helps me save money and resources. Additionally, Azure offers an integrated development environment which makes it easy for developers to use the platform for development and deployment.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Although Azure services are unquestionably the greatest, I think they might do more with their health monitoring and alerting because West Europe regions' resources frequently experience outages and Azure does not maintain a robust alert management tool.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For anyone considering using Microsoft Azure, I would recommend that they take the time to understand their requirements and ask the right questions. Make sure you understand the differences between cloud services offered, such as compute and storage, and what kinds of workloads are suitable for each service. Also don't forget about all the different features available in Azure such as AI/ML and DevOps capabilities.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity

Leonardo M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Arc from other similar products?

Unlike other tools, this one is unique because Azure provides many things, from data stability to cloud server hosting. In addition, you can also automate any type of solution in Azure Cloud using CLI scripts or PowerShell scripts.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

What I love most about this instrument is that its functionality is actually incredible, it has everything and in addition to updating the program to a more suitable hardware for what we want to implement.

What do you dislike most about this product?

In my rather special opinion, we ourselves have not found a failure in this instrument since they have the possibility of virtualizing the services, and having the stability of the information managed in a simple and dynamic way.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

One reason we can recommend this tool is because Azure gives you the stability of a super-efficient PC with enough storage to get you done.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Unique Features
Efficient Service

Asish A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Wonderful product for cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Arc from other similar products?

Azure services has a greater range of regions for storing data, including 58 regions and 140 zones.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Running virtual machines or containers in the cloud is one of the favorite aspect for Microsoft Azure.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Complexity And data transfer

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The product can be made for more user friendly

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Efficient Service

Microsoft Azure Arc

What is Microsoft Azure Arc?

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

Microsoft Azure Arc Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

99 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Arc?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Cloud Integration Includes real-time data integration, APIs, and data quality.

Cloud Analytics and Reporting The ability to track, report and vizualize cloud resource consumption to support life-cycle management, capacity planning, and (optionally) chargeback/showback

Capacity Management Monitor system utilization and provide alerts when pre-defined thresholds are reached.

Self Service Cloud Services Self-service provisioning (infrastructure, middleware, application) automation, including a service catalog and policy-based life-cycle management capabilities

Configuration Validation Reviews resources within a cloud footprint to confirm required configurations and standards.

Performance Monitoring Management Provide visibility into & control over the performance of servers/VMs, network, storage

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity Ability to scale horizontally to more instances when extra throughput or storage is required.

Orchestration and Workflow Management Orchestrating IT Processes such as Provisioning and RunBook Automation across on-prem and cloud workloads

Cloud SLA Management Governance Collects, aggregates and manages data to ensure adherence to committed service levels.

Application Release Automation Continuously manage the release and maintenance of applications.

Cloud Migration Migration of applications and workloads to cloud.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Microsoft Azure Arc Reviews

Monika K.

Robust Development Platform.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Leonardo M.

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Asish A.

Wonderful product for cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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