We performed a comparison between Heroku 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."What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."
"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."
"It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good."
"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."
"Being cloud-based saves the provisioning aspect of an on-premises solution."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"The best feature is it's easy to integrate with other Microsoft solutions."
"We find that it is easy to integrate with other Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office."
"The integration with Databricks is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It's set up to handle any cloud requirement."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"It's a cloud service, so it's always up to date."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."
"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."
"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."
"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."
"The solution should emulate what MuleSoft is doing. At the moment MuleSoft has a lot of other features compared to Azure API integration."
"Scalability is definitely in need of improvement. Azure is a very good solution but it still lacks the performance of other cloud platforms."
"The biggest area needing improvement involves the licensing cost."
"The cost management and billing section features could be improved."
"It is constantly updating. There are weekly releases, sometimes daily releases, and there should be fewer that are consolidated into one."
"I would like to see better policy-based management and everything related to security management could have been better integrated."
"Azure does not handle scalability as well as its competitors. Sometimes a 10 percent increase in a server with 20 percent of CPU usage pushes the server up to 100 percent load, and you start having performance issues."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 28 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews. Heroku is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Heroku writes "Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Heroku is most compared with Google Cloud, Google App Engine, OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Amazon Lightsail, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu Application Service. See our Heroku vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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