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Azure Batch

Score8.8 out of 10

8 Reviews and Ratings

What is Azure Batch?

Azure Batch is cloud-scale job scheduling and compute management.

It's a great tool for organizing your computer time.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Instances for our clients are hosted on Azure. For our engineers that require access to Azure, I provide the necessary IT assistance. I am in charge of the configuration, access controls, and account locking. The infrastructure and instances under Azure are managed by our engineering staff. If your clientele does business with Microsoft or Azure, this is an indispensable tool.

Pros

  • Possessing a number of different settings.
  • Making multiple teams.
  • Reduced difficulty in writing programs.

Cons

  • The user interface, in my opinion, might need further clarification.
  • Any situation where a user's password has to be reset would benefit from this feature.
  • Any accounts that were accidentally established more than once may be transferred over quickly and easily.

Return on Investment

  • After initial setup, we now have significantly less time spent processing data.
  • The automation of data formatting and display after processing is exciting because it frees us to focus on the data itself.
  • Since using Batch, we have significantly decreased the number of items we previously utilized.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Batch

Other Software Used

Azure Backup, Azure App Service, AWS Auto Scaling, GitHub

Azure Batch stacks up with the rest.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azure to run instances for our customers. I'm the IT support side of Azure for our engineers who need access. I deal with the setup, permissions, and account lockouts. Our Engineering team handles the environment setup and instances within the Azure access area. It's definitely an essential tool if you have customers that deal with MS and Azure.

Pros

  • Managing the users
  • Having multiple environments
  • Creating multiple groups

Cons

  • The UI could be a little more clearer in my opinion.
  • Password resets would be nice to have in any instance (not just the default area).
  • Easier to migrate repeated account that may have been created.

Return on Investment

  • I can only assume there is a return as the company has been using it for a number of years.
  • Like anything else, there has been a cost inflation to the tool.
  • If you have no use for the tool then it is a waste of money.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Batch

Other Software Used

AWS Batch, GitHub, Datadog