Azure Virtual MachinesAzure Virtual Machines
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 Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Keep your budget in check with low-cost, per-second billing. You only pay for the compute time you useScale from one to thousands of VM instances in minutes with VM Scale SetsEncrypt sensitive data, protect VMs from malicious threats, secure network traffic, and meet regulatory and compliance requirementsChoose Linux or Windows. Deploy your own VM image or download images from the Azure Marketplace
Azure Virtual Machines Pros & Cons
Pros of Azure Virtual Machines
- ✓Auto Scale
- ✓Backed by Azure
- ✓Flexible
- ✓Free Tier
- ✓Low Cost
- ✓Reliable
- ✓Scalability
Cons of Azure Virtual Machines
No cons listed yet.
Azure Virtual Machines Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Azure Virtual Machines?
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.
GraalVM
An ecosystem and shared runtime offering performance advantages not only to JVM-based languages such as Java, Scala, Groovy, and Kotlin, but also to programming languages as JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and R. Additionally, it enables the execution of native code on the JVM via LLVM front-end.
