We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is its ease of use."
"The tool’s stability is good."
"I come from the DBA side so for me it's the easy maintenance; backups are very easy as well."
"I like the functionalities and the price. I'm very satisfied with Microsoft Azure."
"The solution is user-friendly and compatible."
"Azure is very flexible."
"The main benefit of Microsoft Azure is that it is cloud-based. We are using Microsoft Visual Studio for our code and it is tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Azure is the compatibility with all of our Windows applications and other Microsoft technologies"
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"The solution’s learning curve could be improved."
"The solution's initial setup was a bit complex in the beginning."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"The security feature in the solution is an area that needs to be improved."
"The solution could improve by simplifying network management."
"I would like to see Internet content filtering included."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and SAP S4HANA on AWS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Alibaba Cloud. See our DigitalOcean vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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