Azure Stack vs Red Hat OpenShift comparison

Microsoft and Red Hat are both solutions in the Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.7, while Red Hat is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.5. Microsoft holds a 13.5% mindshare in HCCP, compared to Red Hat’s 8.6% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

Azure Stack

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92% willing to recommend

Red Hat OpenShift

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Red Hat OpenShift and Azure Stack are leading solutions in the hybrid cloud and containerization space. While both platforms offer strong features, OpenShift's emphasis on container orchestration and security gives it an edge over Azure Stack.

Features: OpenShift provides robust containerization, strong security features, and seamless CI/CD integration, making it ideal for DevOps teams. It offers flexibility across multi-cloud environments and supports numerous programming languages. Azure Stack stands out with integrated Microsoft tools, allowing easy cloud transitions, beneficial for hybrid and on-premises setups.

Room for Improvement: OpenShift users often seek better documentation, easier configuration processes, and improved support for scaling and legacy applications. Azure Stack users highlight networking complexities, pricing adjustments, and the need for enhanced third-party service integration. Both can improve integrations and user experience; however, Azure Stack's networking challenges are particularly noted.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenShift deployment, especially on-premises, requires significant expertise and receives mixed customer support reviews. Azure Stack, recognized for hybrid capabilities, offers flexible deployment options but also demands technical knowledge. Microsoft’s extensive support network aids thorough assistance, though response times can vary.

Pricing and ROI: OpenShift is considered expensive with premium support but offers substantial ROI through scalability and reduced time to market. Its open-source version is cost-effective for development. Azure Stack offers subscription-based pricing and benefits from integration with Microsoft's suite. Its pay-as-you-go model adds value, particularly for businesses entrenched in Microsoft's ecosystem.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

5.6

Azure Stack offers varying ROI, improving utilization and cost-effectiveness, with benefits often apparent within the first two years.

Sentiment score

7.3

Organizations save time and money with Red Hat OpenShift, achieving improved scalability, efficiency, security, and performance.

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Time was the major thing which saved a lot, and in terms of resources, it has reduced resource utilization so the remaining users can focus on other tasks.

Prashanth Vedarathna

Server Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

With OpenShift combined with IBM Cloud App integration, I can spin an integration server in a second as compared to traditional methods, which could take days or weeks.

reviewer2587590

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Moving to OpenShift resulted in increased system stability and reduced downtime, which contributed to operational efficiency.

Jefferson Usianene

Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.5

Azure Stack customer service varies, with satisfaction influenced by support tiers, subscription type, and customer familiarity with Microsoft services.

Sentiment score

6.8

Red Hat OpenShift's customer service is praised for expertise but criticized for slow responses and delays in complex issue resolution.

The technicians handling the tickets do not seem very technical.

JitenderSingh

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Any support we receive is through Dell EMC, as that's a policy from Microsoft itself.

MohammedAbdulAleem

Lead Enterprise Architect at Integrated Telecom

It is okay; overall it is good without room for improvement when it comes to response time or first-level support quality.

Rajendra-Satale

Data Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Red Hat's technical support is responsive and effective.

Jefferson Usianene

Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group

Customer support is really good because so far in our case, we have always received a prompt response, and they have been really helpful to us.

RiteshWalia

ML Engineer - Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The response time for customer support is excellent, and they go deep and can resolve things easily.

Ayman Abuqutriyah

Operation Director at Zaintech

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

Azure Stack offers flexible scalability for businesses but faces challenges with regional availability and rack limitations.

Sentiment score

7.4

Red Hat OpenShift offers scalable resource management, efficiently adjusting containers and nodes, with room for improvement in certain environments.

Monitoring, changing plans, and consolidating things are necessary parts of the process to avoid excessive costs.

reviewer2160696

Vice President Of Engineering at a logistics company with 11-50 employees

Our company seeks cost-effective and more flexible open systems, and we find it difficult to integrate with third-party hardware.

MohammedAbdulAleem

Lead Enterprise Architect at Integrated Telecom

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the scalability of Azure Stack as eight.

JitenderSingh

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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The on-demand provisioning of pods and auto-scaling, whether horizontal or vertical, is the best part.

UsmanMalik

Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

OpenShift's horizontal pod scaling is more effective and efficient than that used in Kubernetes, making it a superior choice for scalability.

reviewer2587590

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Red Hat OpenShift scales excellently, with a rating of ten out of ten.

Shan Ahmed

System Analyst at Freelancer

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.7

Azure Stack is stable and reliable, with minimal downtime, supporting both cloud and on-premise deployments effectively.

Sentiment score

7.8

Red Hat OpenShift offers stable, reliable performance, efficiently handling container workloads and scaling across geolocations, despite occasional issues.

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Red Hat OpenShift can scale to thousands of nodes, allowing multiple clusters to be managed in different geolocations and managed by centralized advanced cluster management, ACM.

Ayman Abuqutriyah

Operation Director at Zaintech

It provides better performance yet requires more resources compared to vanilla Kubernetes.

reviewer2587590

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I've had my cluster running for over four years.

Jefferson Usianene

Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group

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Room For Improvement

Azure Stack needs improvements in features, compatibility, scalability, setup, user-friendliness, and cost management to compete effectively.

Red Hat OpenShift requires UI simplification, better deployment, security, autoscaling, cloud integration, and improved support for user satisfaction.

The precision of anonymous activity tracking should be improved, particularly in identifying the correct location because IP information is sometimes inaccurate.

JitenderSingh

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Many resources get created in Azure Stack, and managing those resources can be challenging.

reviewer2160696

Vice President Of Engineering at a logistics company with 11-50 employees

Management looks for a balanced product that utilizes existing hardware, fulfills external customer demand, and leverages the scalability of the cloud model.

MohammedAbdulAleem

Lead Enterprise Architect at Integrated Telecom

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Learning OpenShift requires complex infrastructure, needing vCenter integration, more advanced answers, active directory, and more expensive hardware.

reviewer2587590

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services.

Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

If I could change or improve one thing about Red Hat OpenShift, it would be to provide more information on the web because the information is limited and I need to explore more.

Erika Rivera

Manager Cybersecurity at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

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Setup Cost

Enterprise users view Azure Stack as costly, yet value its support, flexibility, and scalable subscription model despite complex licensing.

Red Hat OpenShift is costly compared to AKS, GKE, and EKS, but offers robust features and security.

If Microsoft lowers the price, more small businesses would be able to adopt the Enterprise E5 license.

JitenderSingh

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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Initially, licensing was per CPU, with a memory cap, but the price has doubled, making it difficult to justify for clients with smaller compute needs.

AbdulJaleel

Senior Technical Lead at MORO

The pricing for Red Hat OpenShift is considered quite high.

reviewer2382555

Manager for Middleware at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing shows that Red Hat OpenShift comes out as an expensive solution compared to having AKS, GKE, or EKS.

reviewer2834616

Lead Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Azure Stack excels in ease of deployment, scalability, and seamless integration with Microsoft tools for app development and hybrid cloud.

Red Hat OpenShift enhances app deployment with security, scalability, DevOps integration, and supports cloud migration across AWS, Google, and Azure.

They allow me to track all user activities.

JitenderSingh

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I am very much impressed with Azure Stack, especially regarding security, complete compliance, data sovereignty, and data security.

MohammedAbdulAleem

Lead Enterprise Architect at Integrated Telecom

It has benefited my organization as it is implemented according to the standards, including GDPR and all, so it works.

Rajendra-Satale

Data Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Because it was centrally managed in our company, many metrics that we had to write code for were available out of the box, including utilization, CPU utilization, memory, and similar metrics.

Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The main benefits Red Hat OpenShift provides for me as a final user include the capacity to integrate third-party tools and also the integration between observability, security, and monitoring capacities.

AlvaroFuentes

Architect Projects at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

This is one of the main things, in addition to having integration with ACM and ACS, where we can have the ability to manage multiple clusters and to secure them, deploy them, manage them, run GitOps and day-two operations, as well as upgrades and other functionality which is made easy using these tools.

Ayman Abuqutriyah

Operation Director at Zaintech

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Stack

Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) (2nd)

Red Hat OpenShift

Ranking in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

PaaS Clouds (3rd), Server Virtualization Software (6th), Container Management (7th), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms category, the mindshare of Azure Stack is 13.5%, down from 27.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift is 8.6%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Azure Stack	13.5%
Red Hat OpenShift	8.6%
Other	77.9%

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Featured Reviews

Rajendra-Satale

Data Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Unified data platform has improved regulatory compliance but still needs better integration features

It is difficult to say about Azure Stack improvement because I need to revisit and study it again. The pricing is okay, but on the services side, perhaps we need to think about some services, not all. I would not like to see any additional features in the future. To give them more like a 9 out of 10 or 10 out of 10, I think they need to improve on the interface, implementation, configuration, and integration with other products, so I rate them an eight. As compared to AWS, they need to add more features. I would like to see operations and storage features, like AI features or security features.

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Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Adopting a flexible and efficient approach with noticeable improvements in operational costs and continued challenges in job management

Currently, one of the biggest challenges we face is with services and jobs. For spawning batches, although it has crons, it is not easy to integrate with enterprise systems such as Autosys. The entire company uses Autosys, but we are not able to integrate it effectively. We need intermediate servers to run OC utility commands and initiate the cron job. We have to do a lot of modifications to ensure our batches work properly. With physical or virtual servers, even in AWS, we are able to write and manage multiple jobs. Managing batches in Red Hat OpenShift has been a significant challenge. Integrating third parties is a challenge with Red Hat OpenShift. For example, with Elasticsearch, onboarding itself was difficult, running file beats and dealing with routing issues. It is not straightforward, especially since we have some components in AWS as. AWS has many capabilities that come out of the box and are easier to work with compared to Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services. The main reason we went with Red Hat OpenShift was because it is a private cloud, and we have regulatory requirements that prevent us from using public cloud.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

23%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	33
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	26

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	53

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Stack?

For hybrid cloud operations, the seamless transition it enables is key. Most enterprises have a lot of workloads on-premises, and they want a smooth way to move into the cloud. Some things are on...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Stack?

Maintenance is included as part of the overall cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Stack?

I am not really aware about Azure Stack's integration capabilities with my existing IT investments; my technical team would know more about it.I think Azure Stack is a bit expensive, but it is defi...

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How does OpenShift compare with Amazon AWS?

Open Shift makes managing infrastructure easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling. There is also a wonderful dashboard mechanism to alert us in case the application is over-committing or ...

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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 needs improvement with OpenShift?

Areas where Red Hat OpenShift can be improved include the licensing being a bit complex and maybe expensive, as that is something in the hands of the organization's higher management, especially wh...

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Overview

Azure Stack stands out in data management and security with features such as Azure Active Directory and Cloud App Security, making it suitable for hybrid and on-premises environments. It offers scalability and seamless integration with Microsoft services.

Azure Stack provides a hybrid cloud platform that effectively supports diverse IT environments. Users benefit from its flexibility, compliance, and security, facilitating efficient application development and management. While users encounter challenges with initial setup, technical support, and network integration, Azure Stack remains valuable for hosting applications, cybersecurity, and hybrid cloud deployments. Companies leverage its capabilities for analytics, data storage, and regulatory compliance, while its scalability enhances data localization and supports IoT scenarios. Despite complexities in pricing and limited service availability compared to public Azure, it remains integral for many businesses.

What are the key features of Azure Stack?

Azure Active Directory: Provides robust identity management and security for applications and users
Cloud App Security: Enhances the security of cloud applications by offering comprehensive threat protection
Azure Data Factory: Streamlines data integration across various sources for effective data handling
Delta Lake: Boosts the performance and reliability of data processing and management
Hybrid Cloud Capabilities: Seamless integration with on-premises and cloud resources

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Scalability: Expands compute resources efficiently to meet business demands
Integration: Smoothly integrates with existing Microsoft services, optimizing workflows
User-friendly Setup: Simplifies the development and deployment of applications
Data Localization: Offers control over data residency, ensuring compliance with regulations
IoT and Edge Support: Facilitates innovative solutions for IoT and edge computing applications

In industries like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, Azure Stack is implemented to manage workloads such as SQL Server and Active Directory, addressing cybersecurity needs and enhancing device management. Organizations use it for ERP operations and VPN tunnels and support IoT projects and DevOps strategies, improving data handling and IT service delivery across sectors.

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Red Hat OpenShift is a comprehensive platform offering versatile container orchestration capabilities, suitable for businesses seeking robust, scalable, and secure solutions for application modernization efforts and microservices deployment.

Red Hat OpenShift combines a user-friendly interface with powerful CLI tools, ensuring rapid deployment and process automation. It seamlessly integrates with Docker and Kubernetes, providing cloud-native stacks for flexibility and compliance. Enhancing development efficiency, OpenShift includes built-in CI/CD tools and dynamic scaling features. It supports multi-cloud environments, avoiding vendor lock-in. However, documentation gaps, interface complexity, and infrastructure demands present challenges, alongside improving integration with third-party tools and monitoring capabilities. Licensing complexities and resource consumption remain areas for improvement, with user experience varying due to support response times.

What are Red Hat OpenShift's key features?

User-Friendly GUI: Offers an intuitive interface for managing containers and applications.
CLI Tools: Robust command line tools for efficient development workflows.
Scalability: Supports dynamic scaling to meet changing demands.
Integration: Seamless integration with Docker and Kubernetes.
Security: Features like role-based access control enhance security.
CI/CD Tools: Built-in tools like Jenkins streamline the development lifecycle.
Multi-Cloud Support: Enables use across different cloud providers.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Deployment Speed: Faster application rollouts and updates.
Automation: Reduces manual tasks, increasing operational efficiency.
Security: High-security standards for protecting applications.
Adaptability: Flexible framework suited for diverse environments.
Resource Management: Efficient allocation of resources for cost savings.

In industries embracing cloud-native architectures, Red Hat OpenShift is adept for hosting containerized applications and transitioning legacy systems. It excels in managing DevOps processes, supporting production and development in sectors such as finance, healthcare, and technology, ensuring robust hybrid on-premise and cloud operations.

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