We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry 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."It streamlines tasks like table creation and data loading into Redshift, making the process more efficient and manageable."
"I like the flexibility of this solution."
"One of the features offered is scalability on demand."
"AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"You can build and release applications quickly with AWS instead of waiting for months to get the necessary hardware. That's the real benefit. The time-to-market for developing applications is much shorter."
"AWS is constantly growing in features with every new version. It's a good cloud provider with excellent availability. The integration is good, and their security products are interesting. Amazon is always innovating and delivering new products to customers."
"The technical support is good."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."
"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."
"Stability is not a concern with this product."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"More complete and specific training for many of the technologies, specifically with Python Django and the CMS (Mezzanine)."
"The interface could be improved."
"There is a feature called Kinesis, which has to do with image processing. There are a few artificial intelligence tools that Amazon AWS should improve on."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage."
"One thing that Azure offers that I think is good is Migrate appliance. So, Azure has a migrate appliance that allows you to run against workloads to determine the cost, preparedness, and scalability. I haven't found a similar feature in AWS. That kind of service would be great on AWS too if you could point it to the data center."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"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."
"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."
"It should offer more security features."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Google Firebase, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, Google Cloud, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our Amazon AWS vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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