We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean 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."The customer support team are very responsive."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The solution is very stable."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"Some features of Azure are very important for us. You can control access for your company, it's not complicated managing the solution either. I think the solution is very stable, secure and the documentation Microsoft has on their website is complete. You can use it to find the solution's problems or implement solutions."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is its ease of use."
"It is stable and scalable. It is useful for many applications and services, such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive."
"I come from the DBA side so for me it's the easy maintenance; backups are very easy as well."
"I think the most useful feature has been the remote desktop. It has been very helpful when customers have old applications that are not architected to run remotely."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"Azure Active Directory: Has powerful security and auditing capabilities that we use to secure all our apps."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"There are so many services available that the interface is a little bit messy, and when you're looking for a specific service, you have to know exactly where to search."
"Any time you use a cloud service, there are increased security risks. If you want more security, you have to have private hosting."
"They can add more documentation about the solution."
"The local support is fair but it is sometimes limited, the service could be better."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"I believe that some of the services need to be available on the on-premises version and not only based on the cloud."
"The main issue is the lack of notifications for updates. Processes for certain operations, like connecting to Git repositories, have changed without sufficient communication. A system to announce or update users about these changes would be very helpful."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
DigitalOcean is ranked 11th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and SAP S4HANA on AWS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. See our DigitalOcean vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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