We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 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."Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"Good information protection feature."
"The data factory feature."
"I like the familiarity of this solution."
"I like a lot of features. For example, the Windows virtual solution has helped in such a way that our client-based application was converted into a web-based version through the use of the Windows Virtual Desktop."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"We have found the most valuable feature to be the pricing calculator."
"The deployment is most valuable feature."
"Overall, there are some very good features on Oracle and it offers good customization capabilities."
"The environment is super fast so you get all the underlying machines behind the data. It's a good processing machine, especially in the Generation Two Cloud."
"The product is easy to use and deploy."
"Oracle is a very useful tool in terms of usability and customization."
"The features allow you to connect the service solutions with the client's requirements. It is user-friendly, easy to navigate and provides assistance."
"You can customize everything according to your preferences. I've reached out to customer support many times. I highly recommend using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. With the product, you have complete control over the management of your system."
"We appreciate the fact that this solution will operate with both native and third-party applications. This has meant that we don't need to change all of our systems to accommodate it within our network."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"Azure calculator could be improved, there are issues with login synchronization."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
"Pricing is one area where Azure has room for improvement. There should be some due consideration. Azure has solved some issues with pricing from the development team's standpoint, but it is still quite costly. They should also offer a trial period for the individual platform solutions. I think that would be pretty handy for the developers."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
"I would like to see more databases on the cloud, what they call today Big Data should be there."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"There should be more management automation."
"In general, the systems application needs improvement."
"The solution does not follow a retention policy while taking ad hoc backups. Since it does not follow the retention policy, we had to do the manual task to check the backups."
"Some of the features of this solution, such as the digital assistant, require extensive configuration before they are suitable for use. We would like these to be made more straightforward and to require less manual input."
"It does require some training in order to be able to use it effectively."
"Specific to the Oracle Cloud; while they have been able to showcase inbuilt features for Oracle applications, what doesn't really come across clearly is what happens when you want to host, work with, or integrate with applications outside of the Oracle stack."
"Amazon AWS has a better solution overall."
"Database instances and computer storage are areas with shortcomings in the product that need improvement."
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Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 91 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) writes "Cost-effective and can be used to host OIC and APEX". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud, OpenShift and Alibaba Cloud. See our Microsoft Azure vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) report.
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