We performed a comparison between Linode and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"When it comes to the Linode Kubernetes Engine and the amount of automation it provides, it's awesome, it's a game-changer. If a process randomly dies, it could take me a while to notice that it has died, if I haven't set up monitoring. With Kubernetes, it will just restart itself using Heartbeats."
"When I started using Linode, I found its functionality easy to navigate, user-friendly and responsive to my needs. It provides clear reminders about services I'm not using, like DNS zones, which I appreciate."
"It is also important that Linode offers worldwide coverage via multiple data centers. The ability to deploy on multiple servers, worldwide, allows us to have distributed services and failover and redundancy."
"For small businesses and people who have some technical skills and are good with Linux command line, this solution is great. I love Linode because it is very fast. Whereas, the same configuration on Azure and AWS will be so slow. The best thing is that their pricing and speed are great."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"The product is a cloud solution."
"The most valuable feature is the interface."
"Its scalability is valuable. Depending on our requirements, we can add as many virtual machines as we want. We are able to get high availability for services. Services are always available, and they have the maximum uptime. If there is any issue with one of the services, another service is always available. It is pay-as-you-go. You don't have to spend any money upfront. You use the service and pay after one month or a couple of hours of use."
"Azure services like EDM and Batch are all famous, but one of the most popular services for development is Azure Functions, especially the PaaS option. Depending on a customer's environment, they can go for the PaaS."
"The customer service and support are very good. When we raise a ticket, we quickly get feedback or someone assigned to help us identify the problem, which, 90% of the time, was on our end. I'm very happy with the support they provide."
"It was easy to deploy our applications on it."
"The most efficient feature of Microsoft Azure is that we can use it to update a website with a few clicks."
"It is a flexible solution that is straightforward to use."
"It would be helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security."
"I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode."
"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."
"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"It's not really an issue with Linode itself but upgrading Linux major versions can be challenging. It would be be fantastic if Linode developed a way to ease transitioning to a major new Linux upgrade."
"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."
"The installation process is complex."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
"I would like to see it more easily accessible."
"Azure installation is complicated. When we first deployed Azure, it was challenging."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"It would be nice if there was an on-premises version of the solution, and it wasn't just cloud-based."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
"The interface is not easy to use. I'd like to see them develop a better interface, more graphical information about the resource and the consumer."
Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Linode is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Google Kubernetes Engine and Amazon EKS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. See our Linode vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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