We performed a comparison between Heroku and Microsoft Azure 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."Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
"It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."
"Azure is very flexible and easy to manage."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, easy to use, and the documents are straightforward to understand."
"In general, the entire suite of PaaS is valuable. It enables a true breakdown of IT siloes and allows an organization to embrace DevOps."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the value for money and flexibility."
"Technical support has been good over the years."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"We have not had any issues with the performance, or the stability."
"Azure has improved my organization because it is a new technology and so the customers who don't have enough knowledge about the cloud delegate the administration of their cloud infrastructure to us. We incorporate and add a new service to our product lineup about how to manage their Azure. It impacts our business because we're able to incorporate this new service."
"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."
"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
"The tool's configuration is complex."
"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."
"We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more user-friendly and the interface could be better."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified. The licensing especially needs to be simplified."
"It can be improved in terms of ease of billing or monitoring of the billing. That gets to be a little difficult."
"Difficult to understand how it works and it's an expensive solution."
"If the price were reduced then it would be an improvement."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
"There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future. They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 28 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews. Heroku is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Heroku writes "Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Heroku is most compared with Google Cloud, Google App Engine, Red Hat OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Amazon Lightsail, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu Application Service. See our Heroku vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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