Azure Red Hat OpenShift vs IBM Public Cloud comparison

Microsoft and IBM are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Microsoft is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.3, while IBM is ranked #15 with an average rating of 6.7. Microsoft holds a 0.7% mindshare in PSP, compared to IBM’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

IBM Public Cloud and Azure Red Hat OpenShift are competing products in the cloud services arena. Azure Red Hat OpenShift appears to have the upper hand due to its feature richness and perceived value.

Features: IBM Public Cloud offers strong data encryption, a comprehensive global infrastructure, and personalization support, ensuring high reliability and compliance. Azure Red Hat OpenShift features a user-friendly GUI, NAT-based networking solutions, and automated scaling capabilities, enhancing development efficiency and integration with Azure services.

Room for Improvement: IBM Public Cloud could enhance integration features and ease of use in complex scenarios while offering more cost-effective solutions for larger infrastructures. It could also expand its feature set beyond security. Azure Red Hat OpenShift could benefit from a reduction in licensing costs and further simplification of some administrative processes. Additionally, improving out-of-box network configuration and security policies would be valuable.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Public Cloud provides a flexible deployment model that supports hybrid environments, coupled with direct and personalized customer service. Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers swift deployment via Kubernetes management, benefiting from Microsoft's extensive support network, ensuring efficient application scaling and resilience.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Public Cloud offers competitive long-term pricing, making it economically viable despite higher initial costs. Azure Red Hat OpenShift might incur higher upfront setup expenses but delivers a superior ROI through advanced development tools and quicker productivity boosts.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

14th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Public Cloud

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IoT Platforms (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Azure Red Hat OpenShift is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Public Cloud is 3.1%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Azure Red Hat OpenShift	0.7%
IBM Public Cloud	3.1%
Other	96.2%

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ArtemiiKropachev

Vice President, Engineering & Principal Architect at Li9 Technology Solutions

A high-performing solution provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand and lot of automation that developers can utilize

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is very valuable because it is a complete application delivery platform with a lot of automation that developers can utilize. It's a complete solution without building your own on top of Kubernetes. As a consulting company, we implement Azure Red Hat OpenShift for our clients, who appreciate its integration capabilities for enhancing cloud operations. While we handle implementation, build processes, and automation, the operational responsibility lies with the customer. The service provides basic processes and support from Red Hat and Microsoft, which benefits clients by allowing them to focus on their business rather than regular operations like cluster upgrades.

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Premnath Jaganathan

Product Manager at Uop Ipl

Affordability and security improve our cloud experience while learning new systems

I'm not working with any AI features in IBM Public Cloud, but they are in the process of building it.I am very satisfied with the security that IBM Public Cloud provides. I would rate IBM Public Cloud eight out of ten, where one is worst and ten is the best.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"As a consulting company, we implement Azure Red Hat OpenShift for our clients, who appreciate its integration capabilities for enhancing cloud operations. While we handle implementation, build processes, and automation, the operational responsibility lies with the customer. The service provides basic processes and support from Red Hat and Microsoft, which benefits clients by allowing them to focus on their business rather than regular operations like cluster upgrades."

"It has a feature to automatically scale up or scale down. If my application is running in peak hours, it will automatically increase."

"I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten."

"Flexibility, a very well-developed interface, and ease of learning are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift."

"The solution's support and its automation tool that ensures we are secure and appropriately configured are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift."

"The most valuable features of the solution are accessibility and scalability."

"It supports AKS and other projects like Kubernetes or EKS."

"In Kubernetes, when traffic goes out of a pod, it has to have its own IP address. Every service that's going out requires another IP. But with OpenShift, you don't have to deal with any of those IPs because they use NAT."

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"What I like most in IBM Public Cloud is how easy it is to create serverless functions. They are called IBM functions, but in AWS, they are called Lambda functions. Those are pretty standard, and another thing I like the most is that you have fewer restrictions on the amount of data you can transfer across those functions. IBM Public Cloud is way more flexible than AWS. I also like that IBM Public Cloud is pretty straightforward to integrate. As long as you have all the tools IBM provides you, getting everything up and running is straightforward."

"It's straightforward, has a good environment and is cost-effective."

"It is easy to deploy what you need for the initial setup"

"This product is very good because it is accessible in remote locations, and anyone can deploy from any place."

"This is a predictable and dependable service."

"I am very much satisfied with the technical support team at IBM Public Cloud."

"I've found the stability to be excellent. The performance is good."

"The price of IBM Cloud is most valuable for us. The service is personable and gives us a good rapport. I can't say it's the best, but it was enough for our needs."

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Cons

"Automation could be improved."

"I would like Azure Red Hat OpenShift to be more open to new frameworks and languages. Currently, if I create a pod with Rust, it doesn't work in OpenShift, and I must create a layer of interpretation."

"Azure Red Hat OpenShift's support should be improved."

"Regarding room for improvement, there's always room, but it's mainly about Azure itself rather than Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Azure is not as advanced as AWS in terms of supported services. AWS is the leader in this area. However, there's no need for service improvement in Azure Red Hat OpenShift as the service is excellent. I don't need additional features because I can customize it according to the customer's needs."

"One of the things to notice is that this product can be expensive."

"The product is expensive."

"Technically, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is fine. However, its marketing could be improved, especially when compared to the robust marketing efforts of Azure, HPE, and Nutanix."

"They need to improve the core licensing model."

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"There is not a lot of support for this solution, which is something that needs to be improved."

"The deployment can be a bit of a pain. There are a lot of packages and a lot of options and it can require complex configuration to get it right."

"Normally, for any cloud, we get a lot of information on the web, but that is missing in the case of IBM Public Cloud. We need some technical support documents. That is the only thing missing in IBM Public Cloud."

"While they have about 99% of what we need, the only exception, perhaps, was the push notification feature that was discontinued. They delayed the replacement product."

"It will be challenging to implement if you do not have any experience."

"An area for improvement in IBM Public Cloud is getting up-to-date information on how to set up everything. It's hard to find new documentation."

"Maybe performance enhancers and reports could be better improved. If they do so, it would be better. Of all the drawbacks I saw, this would be the biggest enhancement."

"Recently, we just faced some issues with the operating system due to the end of life of CentOS 6...So, then the client wanted to try it out under AWS instead of IBM. In short, it has some complexities."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"It is expensive compared to a similar product."

"Compared to other cloud environments like Amazon or Google, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is an expensive solution."

"Azure Red Hat OpenShift is not a low-price solution; it's expensive. Pricing depends on the strategy and whether you buy it directly from Red Hat or the Azure portal. Additionally, some customers may need a complete disaster recovery solution, which requires additional licensing and software products for implementation, such as backups."

"IBM Public Cloud is pretty cheap. They have an ongoing free tier that basically won't expire, so as long as your solution is small enough, you can have a test set that you can use for demos, which will cost you almost nothing."

"In order to be competitive, you have to commit to a contract for at least one year, but you pay a fixed monthly fee."

"IBM has a lesser price compared to other cloud service providers like Azure and AWS."

"We are using the trial version of this solution, so we have not paid anything."

"Pricing is not as fair as Amazon or Azure."

"The price of IBM Cloud is very cheap compared to competitors AWS and Azure."

"The licensing fees are straightforward and predictable."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Government

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

University

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

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Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

The most valuable features of the solution are accessibility and scalability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

The pricing for OpenShift is similar to other solutions like Docker ( /products/docker-37146-reviews ) Studio. The plans with ARO and AWS are standard in the market. However, using OpenShift on-pre...

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What needs improvement with Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

I would like Azure Red Hat OpenShift to be more open to new frameworks and languages. Currently, if I create a pod with Rust, it doesn't work in OpenShift, and I must create a layer of interpretati...

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Which is preferable - IBM Public Cloud or Microsoft Azure?

IBM Public Cloud is IBM’s Platform-as-a-Service. It aims to provide organizations with a secure cloud environment to manage data and applications. One of the features we like is the cloud activity ...

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What needs improvement with IBM Cloud?

The front end is not pervasive, so it is very difficult get the status of your current services or account from a mobile device.

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What do you like most about IBM Public Cloud?

The most valuable feature of IBM Public Cloud is the AI integrations.

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Overview

Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand, monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat. Kubernetes is at the core of Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift brings added-value features to complement Kubernetes, making it a turnkey container platform as a service (PaaS) with a significantly improved developer and operator experience.

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