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.
"Great features at a good price."
"Everything is very good by way of performance."
"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."
"It's a reasonably priced solution."
"There are a lot of valuable features in Microsoft Azure, such as Kubernetes, pipelines, and development environments."
"We use Microsoft Azure for operations, email, and office applications."
"The most valuable features I have found to be the auto-scaling feature and the interface."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"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."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"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 solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"The solution should improve the shared cache. For the shared cache, Microsoft uses RADIUS third-party services. We have a lot of trouble with RADIUS and I suppose that is due to the fact that is not owned completely by Microsoft."
"The pricing criteria can be improved with broken-down terms that can be understood easily."
"One area for enhancement could be in the realm of big data and unstructured data storage."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having more virtual machine operating systems available."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
"The market place can be raised, and the CMT can be more sophisticated to create more opportunities for the end users."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
"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."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."
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, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon AWS, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with 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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