What is Azure Virtual Machines?
You can create Linux and Windows virtual machines. It gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions—development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter. It’s the freedom of open-source software configured the way you need it.
Azure Virtual Machines is a tool in the Virtual Machine category of a tech stack.
Who uses Azure Virtual Machines?
Companies
27 companies reportedly use Azure Virtual Machines in their tech stacks, including Practo, Global, and Infrastructure.
Developers
52 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Azure Virtual Machines.
Azure Virtual Machines Integrations
Pros of Azure Virtual Machines
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Azure Virtual Machines's Features
- Keep your budget in check with low-cost, per-second billing. You only pay for the compute time you use
- Scale from one to thousands of VM instances in minutes with VM Scale Sets
- Encrypt sensitive data, protect VMs from malicious threats, secure network traffic, and meet regulatory and compliance requirements
- Choose Linux or Windows. Deploy your own VM image or download images from the Azure Marketplace
Azure Virtual Machines Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Azure Virtual Machines?
Azure SQL Database
It is the intelligent, scalable, cloud database service that provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility and up to a 212% return on investment. It is a database service that can quickly and efficiently scale to meet demand, is automatically highly available, and supports a variety of third party software.
Azure App Service
Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps created with popular frameworks .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, PHP, Ruby, or Python, in containers or running on any operating system. Meet rigorous, enterprise-grade performance, security, and compliance requirements by using the fully managed platform for your operational and monitoring tasks.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Laravel Homestead
Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant "box" that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. Homestead runs on any Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and includes the Nginx web server, PHP 5.6, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Memcached, and all of the other goodies you need to develop amazing Laravel applications.
HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)
HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the flexibility that PHP developers are accustomed to. To date, HHVM (and its predecessor HPHPc before it) has realized over a 9x increase in web request throughput and over a 5x reduction in memory consumption for Facebook compared with the PHP 5.2 engine + APC.
