Azure Virtual Machines

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Virtual Machines	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Virtual Machines (VMs) are available on Microsoft Azure, providing what is built as a low-cost, per-second compute service, available via Windows or Linux.	$0 Per Hour

Pricing

3 Year Reserved - Burstable VMs - B1S: $0.0038
Per Hour
Spot - General Purpose - Av2: $0.005
Per Hour
1 Year Reserved - Burstable VMs - B1S: $0.0059
Per Hour
Pay as You Go - Burstable VMs - B1S: $0.0075
Per Hour
Spot - Compute Optimized - Fsv2: $0.0104
Per Hour
Spot - General Purpose - Dv3: $0.0125
Per Hour
Spot - Memory Optimized - Ev3: $0.016
Per Hour
3 Year Reserved - Compute Optimized - Fsv2: $0.0307
Per Hour
3 Year Reserved - General Purpose - Dv3: $0.0369
Per Hour
3 Year Reserved - Memory Optimized - Ev3: $0.0481
Per Hour
1 Year Reserved - Compute Optimized - Fsv2: $0.05
Per Hour
1 Year Reserved - General Purpose - Dv3: $0.0548
Per Hour
1 Year Reserved - Memory Optimized - Ev3: $0.0753
Per Hour
Pay as You Go - Compute Optimized - Fsv2: $0.0846
Per Hour
Pay as You Go - General Purpose - Dv3: $0.096
Per Hour
Pay as You Go - Memory Optimized - Ev3: $0.126
Per Hour

Pricing Offerings
Azure Virtual Machines
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines Azure Virtual Machines offer unparalleled flexibility in provisioning, managing and upgrading the VM instances, both manually and programmatically. AVM offer very granular billing options and enables high costs optimisations (while still being costly). The other competitors I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Compute supports Windows, but is really geared towards Linux. You can install Windows on some Linode servers, but again, Linode is geared towards Linux. AWS does everything but is complex and can have high costs. If you want to host Windows servers … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines Azure VM's are far way cost effective than the AWS EC2 service also Azure VM's provides up Smart Hybrid Cloud integration with the Existing on Prem architecture. One of the key feature of Azure VM are they provide High availability and data redundant zones for the VM to be hosted. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines We use both Azure and AWS VM services currently. AWS' EC2s have been around for longer an offer a much more reliable Linux OS support. But the gap getting smaller by the day, and Azure VMs are catching up nicely. In our case, we use a lot AWS for Linux-based applications … Incentivized Helpful? Karan Dua Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Engineering at Oracle (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Azure Virtual Machines Our main reason for selection of Azure Virtual Machines was easy availability of databricks and windows based VM natively. These features are not available on EC2. Incentivized Helpful? Filip Grasheski DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at Deutsche Börse (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Azure Virtual Machines In comparison with AWS EC2, it is easier to deploy using the GUI, when it comes to using CLI is pretty much the same. Incentivized Helpful? Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer in Information Technology at iENGINEERING (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Azure Virtual Machines Amazon EC2 provides a cost-friendly server hosting platform but the underlying infrastructure of Azure Virtual Machines is way more speedy and responsive than AWS. We have a 40:60 ratio of our servers deployed on Azure and Amazon and I can tell you how responsive and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines Amazon EC2 is useful for easy migration from physical to virtual. While Azure Virtual Machines are very handy to use and the management console is very simple which gives all the important features at a glance of a screen. We have a good presence of virtualization and Windows … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines I have tested AWS EC2 instances, however, we chose Azure Virtual Machines as we use SCOM as an enterprise monitoring solution and it goes very well with Azure as monitoring. We have a lot of customers on Azure and monitoring the Azure environment with SCOM is easy through Incentivized Helpful? Feras Diab, PMP Founder / CEO in Information Technology at Converged Technology (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Azure Virtual Machines Azure Virtual Machines is much easier to manage and is a user-friendly management console. Billing is much easier and more predictable to calculate and expect, the configuration is much easier to access and change, the cost is cheaper for Azure Virtual Machines than other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines More or less these are comparable offerings in my opinion as a user of both the AWS and Azure Clouds in a business environment in which there's a use case for a multi-cloud environment. We were able to complete a feature parody between the Azure Cloud and AWS Cloud for key … Incentivized Helpful? Allan Allitt SRE in Information Technology at PA Media Group (Media Production, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Azure Virtual Machines We also use AWS Cloud Services, personally, I think AWS is a little more expensive than Azure Virtual Machines but its swings and roundabouts mostly. I prefer the interfaces in Azure Virtual Machines as I feel I'm closer to the Machine than with AWS and my roots are from a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines If you have Fffice360 and use Azure for data and other purposes, I will suggest using Azure Virtual Machine for better integration and security. Pros and cons from both, but it's more convenient to stay on the same platform for security and stability. Incentivized Helpful? Alexandre Carvalho Senior Technical Support Engineer in Information Technology at FalconStor Software (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Azure Virtual Machines Azure has a better interface than its competitors like Amazon and IBM. It is more intuitive and easier to use. It also has more features like connection troubleshooting, boot diagnostics, and running remote commands. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines Azure VM is more complicated, but provides the same scale of services. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines Azure Virtual Machines was faster, cheaper, and took up less storage than Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and is why we continue to use it to this day. We are very satisfied with all that Azure Virtual Machines can do and would recommend it to anyone looking for a virtual machine in … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Azure Virtual Machines

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Azure Virtual Machines
Feature	Azure Virtual Machines 8.8 23 Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	9.323 Ratings
Management console	8.021 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	9.319 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.716 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	8.616 Ratings

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	Azure Virtual Machines
Likelihood to Recommend	7.1 (23 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (1 ratings)

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