We performed a comparison between Azure Stack and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is very, very simple."
"Its customer service is good."
"The most valuable features are the control and flexibility that we have, where we can build our own solutions from scratch."
"The most valuable feature is IaaS."
"Technical support is quick and responsive."
"It's a good and cost effective solution for any organization. We can deploy the tech solution on premises and also in the cloud."
"The user interface is nice and very simple to use."
"Azure Stack is stable."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"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."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"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."
"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer's server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple."
"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."
"The setup for Azure becomes more complex when you have multiple users and multiple organizations using the same solution, but this is to be expected."
"It does not give you a complete, production-ready setup."
"There are some minor issues or bugs with it that I know are there."
"Azure Stack's pricing could be improved."
"I would only recommend this solution to smaller organizations like ours because I cannot really speculate what big issues that the bigger organizations will face."
"Certain elements are difficult to deploy."
"Technical support is very poor. When we meet Microsoft in the coming weeks to discuss expansion, we'll be speaking to them directly about this."
"The licensing model of Azure Stack is complicated."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"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."
"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."
"The only improvement in this aspect of the service which I can think of is perhaps a pool of developers who could be hired for those cases where the need goes beyond the support offered."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 58 reviews while Linode is ranked 7th in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 27 reviews. Azure Stack is rated 8.0, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS Outposts, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Google Anthos and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine. See our Azure Stack vs. Linode report.
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