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."Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"It is easy to install."
"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."
"The integration with Databricks is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Azure offers broad compatibility with both structured and unstructured data. For example, we use PostgreSQL for storing Azure's official data and manage various types of data, including tabular and image data, accommodating the storage of all data types we handle. So, in many ways, Azure simplified the data storage and management needs."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"Azure is very flexible."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"The performance and processing capability are excellent."
"The deployment is most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Cloud is the digital assistant."
"The most valuable features of the Oracle Cloud Platform are good visualization and analytics. The solution is very well integrated with predictive analytics and forecasting. These features go beyond the traditional reports and visualization."
"The autonomous database functions are an excellent feature."
"The technical support is good, they have been responsive and helpful."
"The product's configuration is simple."
"It is more secure and more controlled than an on-premises deployment."
"They can improve the number of requests. Maybe they can increase it from 5,000 requests to 10,000 requests a month. Sometimes when you try to connect, it is quite unresponsive. When you want to communicate using the API, you get an internal error."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"Microsoft Azure can improve by adding more features for virtual machines, such as tier virtual machines."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"The solution should be more intuitive and provide better support. We often do not receive frequent updates or comprehensive support, even as partners."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
"The solution needs improvement in support, performance, and features."
"They offer some basic services but the choice is not as rich as other cloud providers."
"The solution is expensive. So we try to use MySQL on AWS to push the data. The tool’s support could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see more automation."
"I would like more technical expertise."
"OCI's user interface is awful and needs to be modernized."
"With the Oracle Cloud Platform, they have to give first some proper documentation with a step-by-step process. Then the customer is able to use it properly. Nowadays, the Oracle Cloud Platform requires lots of floor work."
"The technical support is really bad, because their reaction time is extremely slow."
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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, Red Hat OpenShift and Alibaba Cloud. See our Microsoft Azure vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) report.
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