We performed a comparison between Linode and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."For small businesses and people who have some technical skills and are good with Linux command line, this solution is great. I love Linode because it is very fast. Whereas, the same configuration on Azure and AWS will be so slow. The best thing is that their pricing and speed are great."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"We can scale up and down as we require."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"It is quick and easy to deploy. It is flexible, and we can deploy a resource anytime. We like and prefer the pay-as-you-go model."
"It comes with a lot of ready-made studies that we can connect with other existing Microsoft applications, for example, Office, Outlook, Chatline, and OneDrive. Everything is behind the scenes running with Azure. It's easy to build the connectors."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the limitless possibilities of the infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"The solution provides multiple well integrated services which happen to work together seamlessly and provide flexibility and scalability for use cases all around the industry."
"The solution does a lot of coding and customization, and can go live quickly."
"Microsoft Azure is scalable."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"One thing that I'd really like to see is auto-scaling node pools for their Kubernetes. I don't think that they have that. That's a huge one and would be very helpful. Specifically, what I would like is auto-scaling node pools that would scale down to zero nodes, which is tricky. That's very important for certain use cases."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"The only improvement in this aspect of the service which I can think of is perhaps a pool of developers who could be hired for those cases where the need goes beyond the support offered."
"It's not really an issue with Linode itself but upgrading Linux major versions can be challenging. It would be be fantastic if Linode developed a way to ease transitioning to a major new Linux upgrade."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"I'm not sure what could be improved at Linode since they're likely already making enhancements, especially with the Akamai acquisition and, I don't have any specific suggestions as I haven't encountered any major issues. I might consider using API for managing DNS records, but overall, I'm satisfied with Linode."
"The quality of some components of Microsoft Azure is not that great. For example, Microsoft has not fixed issues in Microsoft Teams for many years. There are well-known issues that are submitted by customers two years ago and they still are not fixed."
"The support, the cost, the way they have the tiers, this could all be improved."
"In my opinion, what could be improved is making the actual costs more predictable. It is very difficult to estimate the cost or the budget you are going to need to run your environment in Azure Cloud. You have to be a specialist to understand how you will be charged, which constantly changes."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
"They should include a cybersecurity feature to improve the protection of the systems. They could do better in terms of the pricing model. Its price keeps on changing. Their technical support can also be better."
"There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future. They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"The solution must improve its pricing."
Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Linode is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Google Kubernetes Engine and Amazon EKS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. See our Linode vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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