We performed a comparison between Amazon Lightsail 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."The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"There are many different components such as SaaS, PaaS, and API so every month they are releasing a few hundred new features."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"Data analytics is one of the efficient features as well."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"Azure Data Lake is useful. We are in the process of populating the data lake for our current project. Also, we are directly importing for Power BI to using PowerPlay."
"We have implemented the ExpressRoute connection, which is an established circuit between the local provider and the Microsoft network edge."
"The most valuable features of the solution are for management, such as dashboards."
"It's a great solution. It's so customizable. Every user can create dashboards to suit their needs. We can create and share them with our teammates easily, too."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"To improve, I feel the disk management is too basic. I can't easily partition the disk for the operating system. I have to follow the main configuration that is already set up in the template. To partition the disk, I would need to deploy the operating system first and then make changes, but it's not an ideal method. I would recommend improving the disk management."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"The microservices and analytics of Azure are good areas that could be improved."
"It is impossible to sell a cloud-based model here in Venezuela because we have strong inflation and most of our clients are immigrating to on-premises solutions."
"We have faced some challenges trying to deploy a new ESP application."
"It should have a better hybrid-cloud central analysis. Their support service also needs to be improved. Our main concern is support calls. Our issue is basically related to the technical functionality of the services that we use. It doesn't behave as expected, and support often fails to solve the problem."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"The technical support is good, but the response time is poor."
"I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud."
Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews. Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon Lightsail writes "Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly from the console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Amazon Lightsail is most compared with Google Cloud, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google App Engine and Pantheon, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Amazon Lightsail vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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