Azure Arc Reviews & Insights

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.

It is best asset management & centralized monitoring across multi cloud environments. It can be used to access those assets, update them when necessary, implement Azure monitor to get insights. We can also onboard thsese assets to Microsoft Defender for Cloud to provide the cloud security. Azure Arc is not suitable for the client device management or use as a MDM.

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.

I have been amazed by the extra options which Azure Arc offers for SQL server deployment in both Azure infrastructure and on-premise (hybrid) infrastructure. The deployment options range from Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to Platform as a service (PaaS). Arc-enabled IaaS and PaaS services bring the integration of Azure monitoring and security tools into any customer's local infrastructure and this is amazing.