We performed a comparison between Linode 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."For small businesses and people who have some technical skills and are good with Linux command line, this solution is great. I love Linode because it is very fast. Whereas, the same configuration on Azure and AWS will be so slow. The best thing is that their pricing and speed are great."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"The solution integrates easily."
"It is also important that Linode offers worldwide coverage via multiple data centers. The ability to deploy on multiple servers, worldwide, allows us to have distributed services and failover and redundancy."
"The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"Microsoft Azure provides good performance and support."
"The technical support has been good."
"This is a very stable product."
"The stability is very good. The performance is excellent."
"There is the potential to scale."
"It is really scalable and easy to use."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"The product must improve its security."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
"It's not really an issue with Linode itself but upgrading Linux major versions can be challenging. It would be be fantastic if Linode developed a way to ease transitioning to a major new Linux upgrade."
"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."
"Its cost can be improved."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"The interface is not easy to use. I'd like to see them develop a better interface, more graphical information about the resource and the consumer."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The process by which our customers can switch from one subscription to another should be simplified."
"For deploying multiple resources in a big number, such as in hundreds, we need a streamlined process and more user-friendly scrips. The scripts have to be more user-friendly, and they should also supply some standard templates to deploy multiple resources at a time. Currently, it is very easy to deploy a couple of resources, but if you want to deploy multiple resources, it becomes complex. The material that they provide for integration with an existing on-prem data center is complex. They have to make them user-friendly. The scripts related to resource management need to be simplified."
"Microsoft Azure needs to improve its user interface. New developers and teams have difficulty understanding its lifecycle."
"There were also a lot of constraints with the serverless parts."
"Stability can suffer in the context of a large architecture."
Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Linode is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Google Kubernetes Engine and Amazon EKS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. See our Linode vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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