We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, and Oracle Java Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in PaaS Clouds."The management part of it is good. Its UI is simple to use. The cost management and billing part is also good. These are the top things that I like in Azure."
"The technical support has been excellent."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"We've got multiple tools on Azure, which is a very good feature of Azure. Our Palo Alto firewall and other things are hosted in Azure. We're using Sentinel as well, which is a security tool that is being used by our SOC teams. I've also used AWS, and I find Azure to be more Windows-driven. Although Azure is newer as compared to AWS, it is growing fast. Microsoft is working towards the betterment of Azure."
"Installation is easy as it's cloud-based. Performance is good. It's stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the possibility of using Microsoft and non-Microsoft services on one environment."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the value for money and flexibility."
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"It's cloud agnostic and the containerization and security features are outstanding."
"The most valuable feature of OpenShift is the containers."
"I am impressed with the product's security features."
"Valuable features include auto-recreate of pod if pod fails; fast rollback, with one click, to previous version."
"We have found the cluster management function to be very good with this product."
"I like OCP, and the management UI is better than the open-source ones."
"Two stand-out features are the security model and value-add features that don't exist in Upstream Kubernetes."
"Scaling and uptime of the applications are positives."
"The auto-backup, incremental backup and restoration features can be invaluable for management."
"Backing up and recovery for my domain is very easy and fast. In addition, applying patches and undoing applied patches is effective and easy to do."
"The ability to manage security and access the server from any location with complete security using SSH is perfect for performing crucial tasks, even while travelling."
"One key feature is getting to choose the Virtual Machine configurations while setting up the server, which is an automated process."
"The automated features of auto-purging in 12c helps clear disk space on a routine basis."
"The framework supports auto-configuration. A lot of features are already there. It is reliable and user-friendly to develop code, back-end engineering, or locate specific information such as addresses."
"Cloud has provided less maintenance."
"Self-provisioning, easy to choose from WebLogic 11g to 12c."
"Improvements are needed in Azure to enhance integration tools and support for effectively migrating and managing third-party dependencies."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"I would say an improvement could be allowing for more external, third-party tools. However, I think that's their vision, how they develop the product."
"The pricing needs to be a bit lower. It's an expensive solution right now."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having the availability be 100%. Which is difficult, but not impossible."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"It is constantly updating. There are weekly releases, sometimes daily releases, and there should be fewer that are consolidated into one."
"The monitoring part could be better to monitor the performance."
"One glaring flaw is how OpenShift handles operators. Sometimes operators are forced to go into a particular namespace. When you do that, OpenShift creates an installation plan for everything in that namespace. These operators may be completely separate from each other and have nothing to do with each other, but now they are tied at the hip. You can't upgrade one without upgrading all of them. That's a huge mistake and highly problematic."
"This solution could be improved by offering best practices on standardization and additional guidance on how to use this solution."
"Autoscaling is a very unique feature, but it could be useful to have more options based on traffic statistics, for example, via Prometheus. So, there should be more ready solutions to autoscale based on specific applications."
"The latest 4.0 version of OpenShift disabled a few of the features we previously made use of, although this wasn't a huge deal."
"We want to see better alerting, especially in critical situations requiring immediate intervention. Until we go to the dashboard, it can be challenging to quickly recognize that there's an issue for us to deal with. Therefore, a popup of the event or a tweaked GUI to catch our attention when it's alerting would be a welcome change. Everything else is good. We don't need any additional features. From the operations perspective, as an administrator, there is nothing concerning."
"My team has found some bugs in OpenShift due to continuous integration, and this is an area for improvement in the platform. RedHat should fix the bugs. Another area for improvement in OpenShift is that upgrading clusters can be challenging, resulting in downtime. Application support also needs improvement in OpenShift because the platform doesn't support all applications in the cloud. I'd like upgraded storage in the next release of OpenShift, especially when I need to do a DR exercise. It would also be good if the platform allows mirroring with another cluster, or more portability in terms of moving applications to another cluster."
"If we can have a GUI-based configuration with better flexibility then it will be great."
"There are issues with the application's development, including small glitches and errors."
"Needs better integration with other Oracle/non-Oracle products."
"The product is satisfactory but we need more training on managing the machine itself. For example, how do we add more storage, how do we extend a specific portion? I would like to see videos illustrating some of the technical tasks that we often need to do."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
