Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.3 /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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2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2025

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience

Latest Award, 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.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+93 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?

2% Negative

3% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Security Protects
Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Access Management

Analytics and Reporting

Cloud Backup

Regulatory Compliance

Data Migration

Encryption and Decryption Support

Systems Performance Management

Capacity Management

SLA Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Lawrence C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2025

Reliable VM and agile infrastructure

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

I find Azure’s resource tagging very helpful for sorting out and tracing cloud costs by project. Also, its multi-factor authentication elevates the security of remote VM access efficiently.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like relying on Azure VMs to run mission-critical jobs with high availability and rich disaster recovery options. It has also enabled me to quickly top up VM resources during peak jobs and top down during off-peak hours to save costs. Besides this, I can easily assemble load balancers to distribute traffic across different VMs for better availability.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Although the deployment of VMs through the portal is simple. But in the beginning, I faced complexity in setting up the automation scripts.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you have to manage different environments, try tagging your VMs by project, owner, and environment, which will eventually help in organizing and tracking costs more easily. Also, make sure to set up automated backup and snapshot policies, which will save you in case of accidental changes or failures.

Pros

Reliable
Caring
Saves Time
Fair

Sanchit M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2025

Azure virtual machine cloud first

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Ease of deployment with cloud natives capabilities built-in

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Scalability and performance

What do you dislike most about this product?

Complexity and expensive

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

When Deploying VM make sure of cost management and choose right vm type

Pros

Saves Time
Acts with Integrity
Appreciates Incumbent Status
Helps Innovate

RaviShankar S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2025

Simple Technolo Modernization for next Generation

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Easy to build,manage,migrate,update for the Infrastructure operations team with maximum security, availability, scalability, resiliency

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Single pain of glass to build, manage,update,monitor with global regional presence for high availability and supports integration with on premises

What do you dislike most about this product?

Need support more linux flavours,cost is not high for startup organisations

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Close your eyes and migrate easily your all premises data centre virtual servers to Microsoft Azure Public Cloud

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Fair
Acts with Integrity

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Awards & Recognition

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

92 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+93 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

Load Balancing Allows distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Lawrence C.

Reliable VM and agile infrastructure

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sanchit M.

Azure virtual machine cloud first

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

RaviShankar S.

Simple Technolo Modernization for next Generation

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Access Management

Analytics and Reporting

Cloud Backup

Regulatory Compliance

Data Migration

Encryption and Decryption Support

Systems Performance Management

Capacity Management

SLA Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support