We performed a comparison between IBM Public Cloud and Microsoft Azure based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Azure is the winner in this comparison. It is a robust and reliable solution with a good user interface and a proven ROI. Microsoft Azure does come out on top in the ease-of-deployment and pricing categories, however.
"The price of IBM Cloud is most valuable for us. The service is personable and gives us a good rapport. I can't say it's the best, but it was enough for our needs."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Public Cloud is the AI integrations."
"It's straightforward, has a good environment and is cost-effective."
"One of the features that I really like about IBM Cloud is the flexibility where you can order your own hardware."
"The initial setup was very easy. It's quite straightforward. Deployment took about fifteen minutes. Everything is well organized."
"The beauty of cloud service providers, especially public cloud service providers, is that they are scalable every time when you need them because their payment model is pay-as-you-go."
"An advantage of IBM Public Cloud is the bare metal server. We can take the bare metal server. It's not shared with anyone. We can deploy our applications without sharing them with anyone. That is an advantage of IBM Public Cloud."
"For non-complex applications, the IBM Cloud works fine and the price is much lower than the competitors."
"The product is rather stable. We haven't had any issues with it in that sense."
"Offers many data security features including securing network access."
"There is the potential to scale."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"Active Directory is a good feature. The infrastructure features that Azure provides are also good."
"Azure's Data Lake services are decent. I like AKS, and API Management is relatively straightforward to use. The security and SIEM options Azure offers are good. All the infrastructure services are easy to use and set up."
"The solution has high stability."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"They do not have a very good virtual network implemented, and the VPC is the most important feature that needs to be improved."
"The initial setup and the pricing are areas that need improvement."
"The product should offer more computing, similar to Amazon."
"Normally, for any cloud, we get a lot of information on the web, but that is missing in the case of IBM Public Cloud. We need some technical support documents. That is the only thing missing in IBM Public Cloud."
"The deployment can be a bit of a pain. There are a lot of packages and a lot of options and it can require complex configuration to get it right."
"There is not a lot of support for this solution, which is something that needs to be improved."
"They could improve on customizing reporting capabilities."
"The pricing could be better."
"I would like to see it more easily accessible."
"The technical support is good, but the response time is poor."
"Could be more user friendly; initial setup is difficult to understand."
"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."
"Price could always be better. The features come in quickly, so we're comfortable with the feature set that is available to us."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"Lacks flexibility in terms of storage or resource allocation."
IBM Public Cloud is ranked 9th in PaaS Clouds with 16 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews. IBM Public Cloud is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Public Cloud writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and has helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". IBM Public Cloud is most compared with Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Cloud, Salesforce Platform and Heroku, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP S4HANA on AWS. See our IBM Public Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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