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Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.2 /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

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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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

1
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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.

+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
Continually Improving Product

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Hybrid Support

Automated Deployment

Open Source-Based

Multiple Region Support

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Access Management

Networking

Analytics and Reporting

Cloud Backup

Regulatory Compliance

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

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Reviews

Atul K.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

One of the best products from azure

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you looking for a virtual server to host your infra you can consider it as the primary product.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Unique Features
Efficient Service
Effective Service

Naman M.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Brilliant IaaS solution

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines are placed inside a storage account which makes it easier to group the resources according to their functionality.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Azure VMs are easy to create and it is quite user-friendly to use for a new user as well

What do you dislike most about this product?

I don't dislike anything about it.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would say that you should always use official Microsoft Azure documentation before using VMs because it is always best to learn about something before implementing on it

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Rishab S.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Great Availability Easy to Understand and work

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines from other similar products?

Easy Nomenclature for Services Easy to Understand Highly Available Highly Scalable

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Clean UI and Easy to understand namings

What do you dislike most about this product?

Little slow sometimes for resource allocation

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go for it as its an industry leading Compute provider with easy Pay as you go Model..

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

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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

91 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

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

Hybrid Support Ability to support both cloud traditional IT, ability to move workload between clouds

Automated Deployment Clouds can be deployed on-demand and are ready to use in under one minute.

Open Source-Based OpenMetal is built on OpenStack and Ceph, which allows for lower costs than other providers and no license fees.

Multiple Region Support Customers can easily move their services into another one of our data centers for simplified and fast multi-region availability.

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.

Networking Software defined networking and automation

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.

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.

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.

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

Atul K.

One of the best products from azure

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Naman M.

Brilliant IaaS solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Rishab S.

Great Availability Easy to Understand and work

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Hybrid Support

Automated Deployment

Open Source-Based

Multiple Region Support

Load Balancing

Cloud Integration

Access Management

Networking

Analytics and Reporting

Cloud Backup

Regulatory Compliance

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support