Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud based online computing platform. You can use it individually or in combination with other cloud based platforms. It is very user friendly and easy to deploy. It also works as a complete API, which makes it the est choice for team working remotely on software development. It has a plethora of online documents and helping material which makes it easy to understand and use the 200+ functions that it offers.

It is very difficult to deploy VM in Microsoft Azure through a VHD file because of its rigidity with some third party softwares.

I gave 5 stars to its features and functionality because Azure really tries hard to stay competitive in the market and it has most of the features that a cloud provider should offer. We use Azure to provide our services to our customers that work with Microsoft.

What I like the most about Azure is its AI tools. Azure is really successful when it comes to machine learning.

I will be a little bit cruel about Customer Support and Ease of Use.

We work with Azure as CSP partners. One day we had a problem with one of our servers and I couldn't even reach to support team to get help. Later I learned that since we are CSP partners we cannot directly get in touch with Azure team. Instead we should contact our local dealer to get support. It is tiring to involve bureaucracy to IT when all I wanted was to mount a disk to another server.

Be very careful when you test the servers. You will be charged for a full hour even if you keep the server alive for 5 minutes.

If you do not want to delete a resource accidentally you must lock it. I learned this lock feature from our local distributor but Azure should force you to take such cautions by putting the option directly to the interface. Maybe a little checkbox saying "Do you want to lock your resource?" would be nice.

The interface should be more user friendly. It is really complicated for the beginners. The partial windows that open in each step is confusing. It will be easier without the split structure.

part of what I like the most is using virtual machines, since it is more my area, we currently have an environment where we have several applications, it is very useful and easy to use, excellent product

For someone who has no knowledge at first it can be a bit difficult, but after you learn you see how easy it is.

La creación de Servicios en Azure es muy dinámica y fácil.
Se pueden tener el control de costos muy controlado.
El desbordamiento de procesamiento lo podemos realizar cuando se requiera.
Azure nos permite de forma muy fácil integrar seguridad en las cargas de trabajo.

Algunos aspectos de servicios asociados que no quedan muy claros que debemos considerar en el tema de los costos.