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Data Center Countries

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Microsoft Azure
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
France
Germany
India
Ireland
Japan
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Qatar
Singapore
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States

Features and Usability

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Microsoft Azure
Hourly Billing  Yes
DDOS Protection  No
Backups  No
Control Panel  Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  60
Number of Data Center Continents  5
Monitoring Charts  Yes
Admin REST API  Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  No
Mobile Friendly UI  No
Reverse DNS  Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  No
IPv6 support  Yes
Firewall  Yes
Shelving  Yes

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

Microsoft Azure
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
Microsoft Azure
  • Large choice of cloud services.
  • Numerous datacenter locations across the world.
  • Very heavy management UI.
  • Resources tied to a an instance are not released automatically when the instance is destroyed.

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