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."The cloud management panel is nice."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"We can scale up and down as we require."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"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."
"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."
"It is easy to deploy."
"One of the best features is the last package security of upgrades to Microsoft Azure. Also, we like Azure's compatibility with other operating systems."
"In terms of scalability, it is perfect."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"Microsoft Azure has a lot of useful features. They have databases, application services, PaaS solutions, such as platform and infrastructure services. The virtual machines' functions and services are good."
"Microsoft Azure is an optimized solution when we compare it to any other particular cloud solution."
"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."
"Feedback and error messages make much more sense in Azure than in AWS."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"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."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"They are already working on the firewalls and VLANs, which need improvement, and are now in beta. I am on the beta program for the firewalls, but I can't use it yet because they are only in Mumbai and Australia, and I am not in those data centres. This is the one thing that I have been waiting for almost since the day that I joined them, so it is nice that they are doing that. The VLANs will be an improvement as well, and I am keen and waiting for that."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
"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."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"There are many bugs in the solutions and we already have a ticket to Microsoft. Their content team is working on that."
"The pricing can be reduced."
"The subscription licensing is very complex and we would like to have it simplified."
"The solution could improve by simplifying network management."
"The installation process is complex."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
"Performance could be improved."
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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