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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Overview

What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a solution that optimizes the configuration of popular open-source tools and technologies specifically for Azure, it provides an open solution that offers portability for both users containers and users application configuration.

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a solution that optimizes the configuration of popular open-source tools and technologies specifically for Azure, it provides an open solution that offers portability for both users containers and users application configuration.


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Kshitij D.
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Kshitij D.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Review"
The best features of Azure Kubernetes Service are easy scalability, simple UI and the power to control your production grade server right from the ...
Jinesh N.
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Jinesh N.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"The Azure Kubernetes Service is really great orchestration tool I ever used."
The best thing about AKS are: 1. It is easy to create and manage as compared to EKS, GKE, or other orchestration tools. 2. The secret store csi d...
Arun Kumar Jain K.
AK
Arun Kumar Jain K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy to get started with Kubernetes in Azure"
- Managed Service. It takes care of masters, nodes, etcd storage and everything. No need to create the infra needed; AKS service automatically take...

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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14%

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

It is more beneficial for our organization to migrate from on-premise to cloud due to the pay-as-you-go model, scalability, and elasticity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

The dislike about Microsoft Azure is GUI,there can improve the user interface more user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

We hosted multiple application of our organisation in azure with improved agility, reduced infrastructure costs, enhanced data security, seamless scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

I liked this more application intergration option. I use to reffer more people to this pltatform. customer support resoponce more likeable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Mainly the pricing of product is more per user it's hardly morethen 180 doller but the feature is more. it good to use very big organasation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure aims to provide a comprehensive cloud computing platform that addresses various challenges, allowing businesses to focus on innovation and growth rather than managing complex infrastructure.

Amazing customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Products used within Microsoft Azure Containers: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Containers?

Azure containers is robust and lot scalable, and it has a very user-friendly interface as well. They are easy to use so even a beginner can start working on it easily.Also there are multiple features such as blob storage , queue and file which help sus understand more and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Containers?

An important drawback which I felt is the pricing model , where am not able to calculate an approx number properly due to which I had some unexpected expenses as well. I think this should be made more clear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Containers solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure are next level , when it comes to devops cycle, A lot number of features are available and the trending one in azure devops which helps the devops team in a way better manner than any cloud services.Azure Containers' robust data replication and high availability features give us peace of mind, knowing our critical data is safe Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

I have been working with Azure for past 2 years. It is easy to use. The solutions in Azure are easier to implement when compared to other clouds. It has a lot of features. Also the Azure Customer support is so good. They respond to incidents instantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

There can be bugs in services in preview mode. Azure cloud is changing instantly. A lot of changes are happening every day making it not easy to track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Makes me easy to deploy applications with high security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Compute?

Microsoft Azure Compute stands out as a premier cloud computing platform, offering seamless navigation and user-friendly interfaces. The ability to effortlessly scale up workloads and adjust RAM based on usage is a game-changer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Compute?

Microsoft Azure Compute, while highly efficient, may pose a slight learning curve for newcomers. However, this presents an opportunity for skill development, encouraging a more adapt and knowledgeable team over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Compute solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Azure Compute addresses critical business challenges by providing a robust and flexible infrastructure, enabling us to scale resources on demand. This not only optimizes our operational efficiency but also positions us for future growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Platform is easy to use, and lot of services available for windows workloads.

Active Directory is very useful for windows infrastructure.

Cost wise more economical for windows workloads compared to other public clouds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Process wise more complex for architecting solutions especially with ADs, renewing licenses etc.

Data transfer from on-premise to azure is very costly

Azure support is not up to mark Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure is helping us to migrate on-premise windows workloads to Azure and also for setting up Azure DevOps Organisation for the CI migration of application workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

It provides easy implementation with scalabale infrastructure and flexibility. It can be used frequently for experimentation in DB, AI etc. It has good customer support and developer friendly ecosystm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

It has most of the good features under expensive price range. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have automated pipelines using azure cloud services like azure data bricks, azure auto ml, azure cosmos DB and much more. It is a very useful platform for data engineering and data science. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure, when done right, works great - I complained a lot previously, but as time has progressed I find that Azure are starting to add more functionality and features that just work great.

We use Azure AI, and it's flawless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Active Directory, not a massive fan of it but at least you can avoid it somewhat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deploying AKS is fairly straight forward, especially if you use a tool like Terraform. Microsoft Azure make it easy to deploy clusters across their cloud provider - I have 0 complaints about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Products used within Microsoft Azure Containers: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Containers?

This is a nice plaatform which can help to containarize the Kubernates based application, it also helps to perform Horizontal and Vertical Scalability along with it is easy to deploy the solutions.. It also provides tool to integrate multiple container based applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Containers?

I don't see much issues, however if detailed reporting for resources utilization and billing would definately add much advantage. Also reporting to include various traffic relatd matics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Containers solving and how is that benefiting you?

This has helped a lot to our environment in Converting existing applicaiton to Container based application which is not only saving the cost also it is reducing administration services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

very easy deployment of Kubernetes in azure cloud, networking storage, nodes, patches everything is managed by microsoft azure cloud.

azure has custom made monitoring to monitor kubernetes cluster health and nodes monitoring.

ease of updates applying to the nodes in kubernetes.

ease of support of ingress controller.

networking.

aks managed command line to manage deploy application containers within kubernetes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

billing abstraction, not a very well itemized billing on of infrastructure used.

master node in completely controlled by azure backend and not visible to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

azure kubernetes serivice is an well managed kubernetes which saves installing and setting up a kubernetes cluster out of our own in on premises or within cloud machines.

it helps us monitor the overall cluster health including nodes and application deployed within.

it support with update of the cluster as well as the nodes and control pane updates.

it helps the organisation to easily adopt microservice based architecture and its deployment to ease of scaling as well as fault tolerance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.