We performed a comparison between Heroku 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."What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."
"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"Active Directory is a good feature. The infrastructure features that Azure provides are also good."
"It's a cloud-based application, so installation is straightforward and doesn't take much time."
"Microsoft Azure has proven to be beneficial for our organization due to its quick deployment capabilities. Setting up virtual machines or any required infrastructure is fast."
"Its resiliency is most valuable. It is also a very scalable solution, so you can spend the resources on demand."
"This is a very stable product."
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"Microsoft Azure is scalable."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."
"We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."
"The documentation can be outdated and is not as clear in Microsoft Azure as it is in AWS or Google."
"The security must be improved."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The management portal can be confusing sometimes. We have difficulty navigating the menus because the terminology is unclear, especially when referring to the content or actionable items."
"The third-party data-sharing features must be improved."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"Potential improvements to the price calculator tool"
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 28 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews. Heroku is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Heroku writes "Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Heroku is most compared with Google Cloud, Google App Engine, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Amazon Lightsail, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu Application Service. See our Heroku vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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