We compared Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Microsoft Azure is praised for its scalability, reliability, and extensive range of services, with positive feedback on customer service, pricing, and return on investment. Pivotal Cloud Foundry, on the other hand, is highlighted for its flexibility, automation, and strong customer support, with positive remarks on pricing and return on investment. Areas for improvement include scalability, documentation, support, features, and performance optimization.
Features: Microsoft Azure is praised for its scalability, versatility, reliability, and extensive range of services. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is highly valued for its scalability, flexibility, automation, and extensive documentation and resources.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry both offer reasonable setup costs. User feedback indicates that the installation process for Microsoft Azure is easy and simple, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry has a straightforward and transparent licensing process. Both products are considered to have commendable pricing structures., Microsoft Azure has been praised for its cost savings, increased efficiency, and improved scalability. It offers a diverse range of services and tools. Pivotal Cloud Foundry has provided valuable and efficient operations, scalability, and increased productivity.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft Azure has identified areas that require improvement based on user feedback. On the other hand, Pivotal Cloud Foundry could benefit from enhancements in scalability, documentation, support resources, features, flexibility, and performance optimization as users have suggested.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, reviews for Microsoft Azure suggest varying timeframes for deployment and setup, ranging from one week to three months. In contrast, reviews for Pivotal Cloud Foundry also indicate varying durations, with users mentioning one to two weeks for both deployment and setup., In terms of customer service, Microsoft Azure receives positive feedback for their responsiveness and expertise. Users appreciate the prompt assistance provided by the Azure team in resolving technical issues. On the other hand, Pivotal Cloud Foundry's customer service is praised for being responsive, helpful, and reliable, with knowledgeable and friendly representatives. Users mention the support team actively addresses concerns, providing prompt solutions and guidance. Overall, both products offer satisfactory customer service and support.
The summary above is based on 34 interviews we conducted recently with Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use."
"It's very easy to build a new service and get it into production."
"Microsoft Azure is built for scalability."
"The most valuable feature is the instant availability of resources."
"The most valuable feature is the possibility of using Microsoft and non-Microsoft services on one environment."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."
"Stability is not a concern with this product."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."
"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."
"The technical support is good, but the response time is poor."
"The solution is too expensive."
"The support, the cost, the way they have the tiers, this could all be improved."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"Azure does not handle scalability as well as its competitors. Sometimes a 10 percent increase in a server with 20 percent of CPU usage pushes the server up to 100 percent load, and you start having performance issues."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
"It should offer more security features."
"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
"Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples."
"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."
"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our Microsoft Azure vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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