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."The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"The creation of instances is very good, as is their interface which is not complex and is easy to use. With the dashboard it is easy to create a new instance and add your favorite things. You can add Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, or any flavor of operating system. You can select the RAM for your instance as well."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"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."
"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."
"The solution integrates easily."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is the Area feature. Additionally, the SQL Server DB as a serverless pool is useful, storage-wide external tables are helpful, and PolyBase is very good at reading external data. The capacity of Synapse to analyze in analytics is very good and it supports a range of data."
"Technical support has been good over the years."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"Good information protection feature."
"The design of Microsoft Azure is for it to be scalable and it is scalable."
"Microsoft Azure provides good performance and support."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"Its scalability is valuable. Depending on our requirements, we can add as many virtual machines as we want. We are able to get high availability for services. Services are always available, and they have the maximum uptime. If there is any issue with one of the services, another service is always available. It is pay-as-you-go. You don't have to spend any money upfront. You use the service and pay after one month or a couple of hours of use."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."
"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."
"It would be helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security."
"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."
"One thing that I'd really like to see is auto-scaling node pools for their Kubernetes. I don't think that they have that. That's a huge one and would be very helpful. Specifically, what I would like is auto-scaling node pools that would scale down to zero nodes, which is tricky. That's very important for certain use cases."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"I would recommend some enhancement regarding integration features."
"I think Azure Active Directory and also the backup solutions provided in Azure need to be improved by Microsoft. The backup solution is not a very enterprise solution, and it is very simple. I think in comparison with other backup solutions like Nakivo and Veeam Backup, it can be improved to have a lot of options."
"They can add more documentation about the solution."
"Price could always be better. The features come in quickly, so we're comfortable with the feature set that is available to us."
"The solution could improve by simplifying network management."
"I would like to see this solution support integration."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"It would be nice to have faster support."
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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