We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and 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."You can instantly scale resources up or down as needed, avoiding the need to build infrastructure from scratch."
"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."
"The experience with Amazon AWS is error-free. That was also, of course, something that I really appreciate. That means it's really well-tested and, as published or as declared."
"The payment structure is very good."
"Our primary use case is to use the solution for running many relatively small instances for back office applications and various other business important applications."
"It scales extremely well."
"The scalability is a valuable feature."
"I like the technical support."
"My favorite component of IBM's solution is Node-RED, which greatly shortens the amount of time required to develop, test, and deploy new applications."
"IBM is the only vendor to offer integration with blockchain for smart contract development."
"Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the user."
"An integrated platform would make it easier for administrators to monitor and manage."
"There is no control of downtime."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"The price could be better."
"The IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) appears to be complicated, specifically cross-account resource permissions."
"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."
"In IBM Cloud, the product has been deprecated in favor of Kubernetes, which is a more complicated infrastructure to manage."
"After the initial excitement period with Node-RED is over, you crave the need of additional integrations to third-party services."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while Cloud Foundry is ranked 21st in PaaS Clouds with 2 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Cloud Foundry is rated 5.0. 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 Cloud Foundry writes "Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Cloud Foundry is most compared with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, VMware Tanzu Application Service, Red Hat OpenShift and Microsoft Azure. See our Amazon AWS vs. Cloud Foundry report.
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