Amazon AWS vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry Comparison

Amazon AWS

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Amazon AWS

Read 22 Amazon AWS reviews.

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12,770 views|10,631 comparisons

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Erik Najera Ruiz

AWS Certified Solutions Architect y Cloud Application Developer at Honne Services

Helps us migrate clients to the cloud with ease, and allows us to provide a wide range of cloud services that live in...

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Pros
"Their technical support is really good. I am very satisfied.""We have seen an improvement in our infrastructure, as the code makes it very easy to deploy quickly to AWS.""As a service vendor, we have helped clients to achieve faster "go to market" on their products, and have provided highly flexible cost-effective system management solutions.""The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need.""The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets.""The most valuable feature is that it is simple.""There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model.""The experience with Amazon AWS is error-free. That was also, of course, something that I really appreciate. That means it's really well-tested and, as published or as declared." More Amazon AWS Pros »	"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good.""Stability is not a concern with this product.""The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier.""PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime." More Pivotal Cloud Foundry Pros »
Cons
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend.""An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful.""This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management.""They should really consolidate and make things simpler rather than offer you hundreds of random options. The way everything is arranged really forces users to figure out everything on their own and then, on top of that, to calculate the total costs. There's an infinite number of combinations even just with cost calculations. It's just too much.""There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us.""They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well.""One of the problems that I have seen is that some of the products are not as mature as others.""I'm just bugged by the charges that I'm not really able to manage." More Amazon AWS Cons »	"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience.""The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it.""In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools.""It is not straightforward to setup." More Pivotal Cloud Foundry Cons »

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"It's my understanding that our company is charged a few hundred dollars on a monthly basis.""I find that Amazon AWS is expensive.""The Oracle licensing is higher than it is with Amazon AWS.""I think they've done a pretty good job with their pricing.""Its price is kind of okay. When we do a migration from on-premises to the cloud, we typically use the lift-and-shift model. Based on the studies that we have done, cost savings are definitely there when we moved from on-premises to the cloud.""The price could be lower.""There are many variables involved in pricing service in AWS and overall the pricing is a bit on the higher side.""AWS is not an expensive product."

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"Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."

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Does anybody have experience negotiating the terms and conditions with AWS? Top Answer: Please share the questionnaire thanks Read all 2 answers	What do you like most about Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Top Answer: Stability is not a concern with this product. Read all 2 answers What needs improvement with Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Top Answer: The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it. They can refer to the documentation and YouTube videos, but the navigation is still a concern. It… more » Read all 2 answers What is your primary use case for Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Top Answer: We are a solution provider the Pivotal Cloud Foundry is one of the products that we implement for our clients. We help our clients choose solutions that fit their requirements and then we assist with… more » Read all 2 answers
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2nd out of 31 in PaaS Clouds Views 38,453 Comparisons 33,713 Reviews 18 Average Words per Review 415 Rating 8.3	9th out of 31 in PaaS Clouds Views 12,770 Comparisons 10,631 Reviews 4 Average Words per Review 324 Rating 8.0
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Also Known As
EC2, Amazon Web Services, AWS	PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)
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Overview
Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of cloud computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon.com. These services operate from 12 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Amazon markets AWS as a service to provide large computing capacity more quickly and more cheaply than a client company building an actual physical server farm.	Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io
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Sample Customers
Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.	Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank
Top Industries
REVIEWERS Computer Software Company29% Manufacturing Company11% Financial Services Firm11% Comms Service Provider11% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company31% Comms Service Provider18% Media Company8% Financial Services Firm6%	VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company33% Financial Services Firm15% Comms Service Provider11% Manufacturing Company6%
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REVIEWERS Small Business50% Midsize Enterprise13% Large Enterprise38%	No Data Available

Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 22 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 9th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Helps us migrate clients to the cloud with ease, and allows us to provide a wide range of cloud services that live in AWS ecosystem and can interact with on-premises data centers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Open-source makes it cost-effective, but the interface needs to be improved". Amazon AWS is most compared with OpenShift, IBM Public Cloud, SAP Cloud Platform, Google Firebase and Microsoft Azure, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, VMware Tanzu Application Service, IBM Public Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Amazon AWS vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.

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