Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Deep Microsoft Ecosystem Integration is one of Azure VMs' strongest differentiators. If your organization already uses Microsoft products (like Windows Server, SQL Server, Active Directory, Office 365, or even Azure DevOps), Azure VMs provide seamless compatibility with these tools. For example, Azure offers native support for Active Directory, which simplifies identity and access management for hybrid and enterprise environments.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Azure Virtual Machines is the deep integration with the Microsoft ecosystem. For businesses already using Microsoft products—like Windows Server, SQL Server, Active Directory, or Office 365—Azure VMs offer a seamless experience. It's not just about hosting VMs, it's about being able to integrate and manage your entire infrastructure within one unified platform.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The biggest downside I’ve heard about Azure Virtual Machines is its complexity—especially when it comes to pricing and configuration. While Azure offers a lot of flexibility, that can also make it a bit overwhelming, particularly for users who are new to cloud infrastructure or for small businesses without dedicated cloud architects.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Azure Virtual Machines, here are a few recommendations to make the most of the platform and avoid common pitfalls: Plan Your Architecture Carefully: Start with a solid architecture. Before deploying VMs, think about the bigger picture—networking, storage, and security. Leverage tools like Azure Architecture Center for best practices. Consider how VMs will interact with other services like Azure Load Balancer, Network Security Groups (NSGs), and Azure Monitor for monitoring and management.

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

You have so many features to choose from and it’s very easy to maintain and setup , as a Microsoft environment it’s very easy to sync user and just grant lisence and start working with azure virtual machine, it’s easy to setup the environment as well and you can implement the authentication and verification like password expiring every 12 hours and after that you have to generate a new password.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Scalability and very less downtime when you have critical applications running on your virtual machine . It’s very easy to scale up and down when in need . You have the capability of configuring and same as price is flexible as per need you can configure maybe you just sql server on your machine and you can configure it there . It’s very easy to administer as well as you can see all the virtual machines and there configurations and pricing at one place .

What do you dislike most about this product?

There’s not much to dislike other than product support, even you raise a ticket it’s assigned to third party and they take time to understand the issue and resolve

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is must to buy product and If you are in Microsoft ecosystem this is very necessary as you get all the feature setup and lisence very easily.

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Windows Licensing and Pricing

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

easy implementation

What do you dislike most about this product?

Memory Optimised VMs can be cheaper

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go for it!!