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's a flexible solution."
"We can spin up the server anytime and have root access to it."
"The capacity to grow dynamically based on our needs is most valuable. We can increase resources dynamically. It is also very reliable and fast to implement."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"The cloud storage based on S3 is one the most valuable services we have deployed since it allows us infinite scale in storage and extremely high durability."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are the EC2 instance for web applications with CDN Networks."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"Stability is not a concern with this product."
"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."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"There are numerous use cases, and the setup varies from complicated to very simple in some cases."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"The interface could be improved."
"We would like to see if AWS includes any inbuilt automation. Also, we are very interested in AWS's AI/ML features, as well as IoT, AR, and VR."
"The overall convenience and the ease to use could be improved."
"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
"It should offer more security features."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."
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 OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our Amazon AWS vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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