We performed a comparison between Cloud Foundry and Microsoft Azure 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."My favorite component of IBM's solution is Node-RED, which greatly shortens the amount of time required to develop, test, and deploy new applications."
"Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the user."
"IBM is the only vendor to offer integration with blockchain for smart contract development."
"Technical support has been extremely helpful."
"In terms of computer resource management and reduced cost, it is very, very effective. In large environments, it gives you a lot of flexibility to provide different services, like disaster recovery and business continuity with simple and great options because you don't have to spend a lot of time for maintenance, upgrades, and security."
"The product has been quite stable."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"Kubernetes service and API management are the most valuable."
"The portal makes it easier to work with the solution."
"It is a reliable solution that is easy to set up."
"In terms of managing and configuring infrastructures, Azure is fairly good."
"After the initial excitement period with Node-RED is over, you crave the need of additional integrations to third-party services."
"In IBM Cloud, the product has been deprecated in favor of Kubernetes, which is a more complicated infrastructure to manage."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
"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."
"They should create integrations with more platforms."
"I would like to see all of the cloud providers be more compatible with each other."
"Microsoft's technical support could be improved."
"Azure could be made more user-friendly."
"The pricing can be reduced."
Cloud Foundry is ranked 21st in PaaS Clouds with 2 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews. Cloud Foundry is rated 5.0, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloud Foundry writes "Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Cloud Foundry is most compared with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, VMware Tanzu Application Service, Red Hat OpenShift and Amazon AWS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. See our Cloud Foundry vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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