We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There are many valuable features, I find the EMR in the platform easy to use and to learn."
"Some of the valuable features I have found to be the virtual server is easy to understand, a secure environment, and AWS has a fast community for finding solutions to problems you might be facing."
"I like ETL, the EC2 platform, and Route 53. These features are a great complement to the basic infrastructure of any company. The AWS platform has many features, but the fundamental cloud infrastructure is the most important."
"The installation and initial setup are easy."
"The cutting-edge design is valuable."
"They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"The ecosystem offered by the product has almost everything."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."
"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."
"There was some new learning in terms of IOPS on the EBS storage. The concept of burstable IOPS was new and we did have a few outages when we ran out of IOPS."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"The AWS documentation is written in a way that is not very intuitive. That's an area they can improve."
"Some services which were easy to use through shortcuts are now more complicated to use."
"This solution could be improved by a better licensing model, especially for third-party software. Amazon AWS could also potentially be improved by more free storage, but I think that it's okay when compared to competitors' products."
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"The price needs improvement."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples."
"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."
"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."
"It is not straightforward to setup."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Google Firebase, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our Amazon AWS vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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