They tried a free Databricks service on Azure and a week later their 5 dollar spending alert fired because of a NAT routing resource that was not visible in the portal. They deleted everything.
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They enabled a DNS security policy only to log DNS queries and were hit by per-query charges they had not anticipated, on top of Log Analytics costs.
Their $300 Azure starter credit lasted only 30 days, and they kept getting billed about $12 a month for Defender that they could not turn off even with AI agents and the CLI, so they killed the account.
They were caught out by Private Endpoints that did not auto-delete after deployment and kept billing. They now always set up cost monitoring.
They had to export a 12tb disk years ago, the download failed three times, and the egress bill was painful.
They sent about 6 TB out of Azure back to their game servers and found the egress cost painful.
They run several petabyte-tier blob accounts and say blob transaction costs are a ripoff comparable to Log Analytics ingestion, sometimes eating them alive.
They pay about 200 a month for Azure managed SFTP and found one-click services costly, saving thousands by running services on a small node pool.
They like Azure the least, finding it a pain to use and said it charges for every little thing, preferring AWS for ease of use.
Common questions about Microsoft Azure
Is Microsoft Azure worth it?
Of the 180 reviews with a clear verdict, 21% are positive, 13% mixed and 66% negative. The praise mentioned most is easy to use. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about Microsoft Azure?
The praise reviewers mention most: easy to use (11 reviews), helpful support (6 reviews) and reliable (6 reviews). For example: They use both Azure and AWS, find them similar on price, and say Azure is much easier to set up and navigate.
What are the most common complaints about Microsoft Azure?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (42 reviews), surprise bill (22 reviews) and outages (21 reviews). For example: They use both AWS and Azure at work and find getting things done in Azure painful, with support worse than AWS.
What does the signal score of 62 mean?
It's how well reviewed Microsoft Azure is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Microsoft Azure?
Category: Cloud platform. Free plan: Yes.
Where do these Microsoft Azure reviews come from?
331 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.
