Azure Red Hat OpenShift vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry comparison

Microsoft and VMware are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Microsoft is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.4, while VMware is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.5. Microsoft holds a 0.7% mindshare in PSP, compared to VMware’s 9.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Azure Red Hat OpenShift are competing platforms in the enterprise-grade cloud application sector. Azure Red Hat OpenShift generally has the upper hand due to its expansive feature set, despite its higher costs.

Features: Pivotal Cloud Foundry features automation, lifecycle management, and easy deployment, enhancing performance and CI/CD integration. Azure Red Hat OpenShift excels in language support, container orchestration, and scalability, providing robust tools for cloud-native application deployment.

Room for Improvement: Pivotal Cloud Foundry could benefit from broader language support, improved container orchestration, and enhanced scalability features. Azure Red Hat OpenShift could reduce complexity in initial setup, lower costs, and further streamline its comprehensive deployment model.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides streamlined deployments with fast time-to-market and self-assisted features. Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers flexible deployment models with enhanced scalability and detailed documentation, backed by robust support from Red Hat and Microsoft.

Pricing and ROI: Pivotal Cloud Foundry's simple pricing can lead to a faster ROI. Azure Red Hat OpenShift, though more expensive initially, offers long-term benefits and adaptable solutions that may result in significant ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Azure Red Hat OpenShift vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

12th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

11th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 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 Pivotal Cloud Foundry is 9.2%, up from 8.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Pivotal Cloud Foundry	9.2%
Azure Red Hat OpenShift	0.7%
Other	90.1%

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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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Stephen Hack

Web App developer at FDIC

Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is used as a cloud platform Pivotal Cloud Foundry has helped our organization by the way we've set it up, it's easy to sign in, bind services, push services, and create YAML files. The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line…

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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

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

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

"Red Hat is a very stable product with good integration with products such as Kubernetes, and it also offers migration tools."

"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."

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

"Technical support from Red Hat is very good."

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

"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."

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"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."

"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."

"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."

"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."

"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."

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Cons

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

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

"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."

"The product is expensive."

"They need to improve the core licensing model."

"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."

"Automation could be improved."

"There is room for improvement in terms of orchestration. While Azure orchestration offers valuable features, it's worth noting that it may not match the level of orchestration provided by Kubernetes itself."

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"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."

"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples."

"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."

"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."

"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."

"I'd like to see a larger service offering."

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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."

"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."

"It is expensive compared to a similar product."

"Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."

"The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."

"We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market."

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is based on the customer's requirements. However, the price is comparable to other similar solutions."

"You're paying for the number of virtual machines you want to install in the installation."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Government

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

38%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	11

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 would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database...

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What do you like most about Pivotal Cloud Foundry?

I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pivotal Cloud Foundry?

I would say it is around a nine out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. Just short of Oracle. It's sort of Oracle cloud.

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Comparisons

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Compared 45% of the time

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 33% of the time

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Compared 31% of the time

Amazon AWS vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 11% of the time

Google Cloud vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 7% of the time

IBM Cloud Private vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 1% of the time

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Also Known As

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PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)

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.

Microsoft

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io

VMware

Sample Customers

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Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank

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