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Azure Container Instances Product Details

Azure Container Instances makes it easy to create and manage Docker containers in Azure, without having to provision virtual machines or adopt a higher-level service.

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Azure Container Instances makes it easy to create and manage Docker containers in Azure, without having to provision virtual machines or adopt a higher-level service.

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Rakesh Kumar J.

Sr Solution Architect - Digital & Analytics

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/14/2022

"Fewer step to reach"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

easily accessibility of required contents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Confusing VM sizes names like A0, A2, B, Dsv3, Dv3, DSv2, Dv2, DS, D, Av2, A0-7 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swapnil J.

Assistant System Engineer Trainee

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/3/2022

"Cloud Knowledge"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Very informative and good concept driven. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Nothing all is good and very helpful for beginners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/2/2022

"Azure cloud"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

It has all the functions, it has the best machine learning service platform. We can easily deploy our models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Documentation are not clear. Face difficulties in understanding a service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/21/2022

"One stop shop for all our application needs"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Documentation and ease of access to services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Cost and billing needs a bit of fine tuning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/21/2022

"Azure is one platform for all digitalization needs"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Azure is an ecosystem that has almost all the services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Few regions in Asia Pasific are not available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel J.

Head of IT/Comms/QA

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/26/2020

"Super easy to use!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?

Azure Container Instances allows you to instantly create a secure container for development use - without the need for virtual machines. This allows you to run any instances that can operate in isolated containers. These have many advantages over standard virtual machines.

Positives:

- Much faster to start than virtual machines

- Minimal provisioning/management needed compared to virtual machines

- Security - isolated to a hypervisor level Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?

- Running a constant 24 hours a day instance on the platform is much more expensive than running a virtual machine instance 24/7

- User interface isn't always the most intuitive - relatively new service so some sub-context menus aren't quite logical yet

However, this is a great service and I think that the positives outweigh the negatives, especially with MS Azure's superb customer/client relations team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:

Have a play around with the software before getting specialist help from Azure. This is the best way you can gain experience from ACI since different users may have different use cases depending. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deploying a container is SO much faster than deploying a virtual machine. This significantly reduces downtime since virtual machine often require a lot of management from the admin side. This saves time and business cost. However bear in mind that containers are more expensive to run (generally) than their virtual machine usage equivalents so whilst you may be saving time and money in some areas containers generally cost more, particularly when you are running them 24 hours a day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/28/2019

"Good performance but quite expensive"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?

I can use the portal to create a container, no need to worry about provisioning virtual machines to host the container or installing software.

Instances can be created with a single-line PowerShell command and will be up-and-running in minutes.

Azure Container Instances also support container groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?

Not yet possible to attach them to an Azure virtual network.

Running an instance 24/7 will be more expensive than running a virtual machine of the same size.

More expensive than Amazon Container Service, which has been the most popular. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:

Azure Container Instances is a relatively new service and does still have some limitations. I have not seen any feature of Azure Container Instances that Amazon Container Service does not have. However, it is definitely a good option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Container Instances solving and how is that benefiting you?

I tried to use Azure Container Instances to run a large database system. It has high performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brenda U.

Owner

Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/29/2019

"Azure is very hard to understand and"

0/5

What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?

To be honest I liked the fact that they reached out to me to see if I needed help but... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?

When I responded to the e-mail reaching out for help they never responded back Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/4/2019

"Great tool for container orchestration "

2.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?

What I like best is that its container orchestration solution that best suits my needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?

The only thing I dislike is the possible privacy issues since it is a public cloud without having provision to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

mihir p.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/9/2018

"easy to run applications with hypervisor isolation on Azure without managing servers!!!"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Container Instances?

Because of Azure Container Instances (ACI), you can focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them,we can use it for data processing where source data is ingested, processed and placed in a durable store such as Azure Blob storage!!

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What do you dislike about Azure Container Instances?

the containers are so much automated they should left some task customize able , so it's not user friendly!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Container Instances:

It's best platform for any beginner because you can develop apps fast without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.