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Azure Arc

Score9.8 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Azure Arc?

Azure Arc is a set of technologies that brings Azure security and cloud-native services to hybrid and multicloud environments. It enables the user to secure and govern infrastructure and apps anywhere, build cloud-native apps faster with familiar tools and services to run them on any Kubernetes platform, and modernize the data estate with Azure data and machine-learning services.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Azure Arc has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Cloud Management Performance Monitoring

    Monitoring of storage, network and application performance metrics to achieve business service levels

    Category average: 8.5

  • Resource Management

    Ability to manage and deliver cloud resources such as resource discovery and tagging, asset and license management and cloud-to-cloud migration

    Category average: 8.8

  • Cloud Management Security

    Provision of various security capabilities such as Identity Access Management, encryption, and endpoint security

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Cost Management

    Provision of tools for cloud instance rightsizing and user chargeback and billing

    Category average: 8.4

  • Governance and Compliance

    Risk assessment analysis, audits and resource governance capabilities

    Category average: 8.6

  • Systems Integration

    Integration of internal and external systems to support multi-cloud management

    Category average: 8.3

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Azure Arc
Based on HG Insights installation data
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

20.1%

110 installations of 548

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

13.5%

74 installations of 548

#3 most frequent

Information

8.4%

46 installations of 548

Reviews

What users are saying about Azure Arc.
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Multi Cloud Management using Azure Arc

Incentivized
Avishka BandarathilakaView profile
Associate Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Connex Information Technologies (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization, we use Azure Arc to manage our multi cloud environment. We use Microsoft Azure as the main Cloud provider, and also use AWS as the secondary cloud provider. All these environments has multiple virtual machines. We also has on premise servers that are onboarded to Azure Arc. Through Azure Arc, we get centralized visibility, patch management, security & compliance covered.

Pros

  • Centralized Asset Management
  • Update & patch management
  • Security

Cons

  • Licensing benefits could use some improvement
  • Update management pricing
  • Security optimization and pricing

Return on Investment

  • It reduces asset management processes
  • Provides centralized monitoring
  • Provides security posture across multi cloud environment
  • Multi Cloud Management

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud Anthos Service Mesh, AWS Outposts and Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Other Software Used

Scalefusion, Microsoft Intune, AWS App Mesh

Azure Arc

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been seeking for a unified monitoring solution for both our on-premise servers, both Windows server and Linux, as well as all our Cloud Azure-based servers. Azure Arc has been able to provide a single pane of monitoring solution for all our hybrid cloud infrastructure components in an efficient manner.

Pros

  • Azure Monitor metrics
  • Event logs aggregation
  • Integration with Windows Admin Center

Cons

  • Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS operating system version support is limited and reaching end of life soon
  • Azure Arc-enabled data services for Postgresql and SQL Managed Instance have some limitations, we would like to see them becoming more stable with a broader feature set.
  • While configuring the Azure Connected Machine agent on some Linux machines, we had to carry out troubleshooting to get them to work, we would like to see the agents for Linux even more stable in future releases.

Return on Investment

  • After configuring Azure Arc-enabled services on premise for SQL Server, we saw a drastic decrease in our Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 30%
  • After working with Azure Arc monitoring agents installed in our on-prem Windows and Linux users, we documented a 20% increase in overall IT operations efficiency, due to the unified monitoring solution.
  • The Azure Arc-enabled servers security baseline provides procedural guidance and resources for implementing security recommendations and best practices. This has increased operational efficiency and decreased security incidents by 15%.

Usability

Other Software Used

Azure Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Front Door, Azure VPN Gateway, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)