We compared Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Microsoft Azure is praised for its scalability, reliability, and extensive range of services, with positive feedback on customer service, pricing, and return on investment. Pivotal Cloud Foundry, on the other hand, is highlighted for its flexibility, automation, and strong customer support, with positive remarks on pricing and return on investment. Areas for improvement include scalability, documentation, support, features, and performance optimization.
Features: Microsoft Azure is praised for its scalability, versatility, reliability, and extensive range of services. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is highly valued for its scalability, flexibility, automation, and extensive documentation and resources.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry both offer reasonable setup costs. User feedback indicates that the installation process for Microsoft Azure is easy and simple, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry has a straightforward and transparent licensing process. Both products are considered to have commendable pricing structures., Microsoft Azure has been praised for its cost savings, increased efficiency, and improved scalability. It offers a diverse range of services and tools. Pivotal Cloud Foundry has provided valuable and efficient operations, scalability, and increased productivity.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft Azure has identified areas that require improvement based on user feedback. On the other hand, Pivotal Cloud Foundry could benefit from enhancements in scalability, documentation, support resources, features, flexibility, and performance optimization as users have suggested.
Deployment and customer support: Based on user feedback, reviews for Microsoft Azure suggest varying timeframes for deployment and setup, ranging from one week to three months. In contrast, reviews for Pivotal Cloud Foundry also indicate varying durations, with users mentioning one to two weeks for both deployment and setup., In terms of customer service, Microsoft Azure receives positive feedback for their responsiveness and expertise. Users appreciate the prompt assistance provided by the Azure team in resolving technical issues. On the other hand, Pivotal Cloud Foundry's customer service is praised for being responsive, helpful, and reliable, with knowledgeable and friendly representatives. Users mention the support team actively addresses concerns, providing prompt solutions and guidance. Overall, both products offer satisfactory customer service and support.
The summary above is based on 34 interviews we conducted recently with Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"The support is responsive and dedicated to SMEs."
"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."
"The scalability is the most unique feature. Whenever our user count is high, and utilization of our application results in high use of resources, Microsoft Azure automatically scales our application so that users can access it without any issues or errors. Microsoft Azure gives you the flexibility to scale your applications up and down at any moment. It is quite easy and impressive."
"The product scales extremely well."
"It is a reliable solution that is easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"We have not had any issues with the performance, or the stability."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use."
"The response time and stability of Microsoft Azure need to be improved."
"The solution could be easier to use. However, when comparing it to AWS it is a bit easier."
"Talking from a networking perspective, when you create a file or a rule in Azure and you want to view this IP group, sometimes the way it is displayed on the GUI, you don't see the name of the group."
"They should include a cybersecurity feature to improve the protection of the systems. They could do better in terms of the pricing model. Its price keeps on changing. Their technical support can also be better."
"Dashboards and reporting could be improved."
"I would like to see improved migration tools. It is improving week by week. They just need to make sure that they keep up with the new functionality provided in other clouds."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
"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."
"Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."
"It should offer more security features."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. 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 Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with OpenShift, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our Microsoft Azure vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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