We performed a comparison between Cloud Foundry and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."IBM is the only vendor to offer integration with blockchain for smart contract development."
"Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the user."
"My favorite component of IBM's solution is Node-RED, which greatly shortens the amount of time required to develop, test, and deploy new applications."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"The solution offers very good upgrades and updates regularly."
"To me, the most valuable Azure features are AKS, Cloud SQL, security, and account management."
"The most valuable feature is cloud-based storage."
"Some months ago, we started using Power BI embedded, which helped optimize the number of licenses for our company."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"After the initial excitement period with Node-RED is over, you crave the need of additional integrations to third-party services."
"In IBM Cloud, the product has been deprecated in favor of Kubernetes, which is a more complicated infrastructure to manage."
"The diagnostics should have more logs."
"The tool should add an interface that is similar to AWS."
"Virtual networks might be improved by adding more rules for the validation of protocols and peripheral elements in security assurance."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
"The product's initial setup process and stability need improvement."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
Cloud Foundry is ranked 21st in PaaS Clouds with 2 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews. Cloud Foundry is rated 5.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloud Foundry writes "Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Cloud Foundry is most compared with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, VMware Tanzu Application Service, Red Hat OpenShift and Amazon AWS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. See our Cloud Foundry vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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