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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Composite Score

8.9 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

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What is Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?

Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines won the following awards in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category

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2026 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2026

8 Top Rated Capabilities

13 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2026

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience

2025

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

6 Top Rated Capabilities

12 Top Rated Features

2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

8 Top Rated Capabilities

12 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Conflict Resolution

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

5 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2023

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines 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.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+91 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 Virtual Machines?

3% Negative

3% Neutral

94% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Cloud Integration

Load Balancing

Encryption and Decryption Support

Data Migration

Cloud Backup

Access Management

Regulatory Compliance

Analytics and Reporting

Systems Performance Management

Capacity Management

SLA Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Abhishek S.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Gaming and Hospitality
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2021

Best cloud platform

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

1- Proactive and responsive support. We've worked with most other cloud providers - Amazon, Google, Oracle. Amazon Web Services' customer support is a black hole and their documentation is worthless. Google and Oracle are better, but Azure's support is responsive and their docs are pretty good. 2- Azure's Web UI is pretty easy to work with

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1- The product is constantly evolving both in terms of features and user-friendliness. 2- Microsoft effectively tunes for their own applications 3- Microsoft Azure functions can run be hosted and run inside of Kubernetes. This allows solutions based on Azure functions cloud agnostic. 4-Azure Active Directory is the top of the list. No organization can be without a robust and capable identity management system for the users. having the identities managed in the cloud means that your people can potentially be authenticated to more systems everywhere, allowing more work to get done more securely.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I know cost is a barrier for many organizations. The retail prices may seem high and may be out of reach now, but with careful planning and negotiation, along with a realistic sense of what you can do now verses what you could be doing in the future, the costs should even out.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

During our initial stages with Azure (years ago), we had several hybrid scenarios going, where we had portions of a service on-premises while other portions were in Azure. Active Directory was a good example. The Hybrid story got better and better and made "jumping to the cloud" less of an abrupt jump and more of a careful walk. The Hybrid ease has probably only gotten better since then.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Vincent C.

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2021

Full Featured Enterprise product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Microsoft's seamless integrations with all their other technology make it a great choice for a cloud platform. This integration capability is what sets it apart from other cloud or infrastructure software providers.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ease of administration using their graphical web interface.

What do you dislike most about this product?

the complexity of scripting and automation in Powershell.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Work closely with Microsoft to find out your needs and the integration requirements.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Mayara G.

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

Not so intuitive

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

The name Microsoft and integration with other Microsoft products

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Perfect documentation.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Instability of the instances (servers)

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's a good platform if you use Microsoft in your company

Pros

Trustworthy
Caring
Respectful
Client Friendly Policies

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Awards & Recognition

2026 Data Quadrant Champion

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines?

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.

Load Balancing Allows distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources.

Encryption and Decryption Support Support for real-time decryption and re-encryption of information.

Data Migration The ability to select and extract data from one storage system to another

Cloud Backup Includes backup schedules, encryption algorithms, and data support.

Access Management Includes social sign-on, external authorization, and fraud detection.

Regulatory Compliance Includes compliance with regulations and standards such as SOX, HIPPA, NIST, PCI-DSS etc.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Systems Performance Management Includes monitoring, analyzing and configuration in order to optimize performance and increase efficiency.

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

SLA Management Includes a contracted delivery time, automated escalations, and timely resolutions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Abhishek S.

Best cloud platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Vincent C.

Full Featured Enterprise product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mayara G.

Not so intuitive

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Cloud Integration

Load Balancing

Encryption and Decryption Support

Data Migration

Cloud Backup

Access Management

Regulatory Compliance

Analytics and Reporting

Systems Performance Management

Capacity Management

SLA Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support