"The fact that you can do any Linux distribution is great. You can try out any Linux distribution, even some of the more obscure ones, and they are always keeping them up-to-date. As soon as a new distribution comes out, it is on the platform pretty much the same day, which I find really helpful."
"When it comes to the Linode Kubernetes Engine and the amount of automation it provides, it's awesome, it's a game-changer. If a process randomly dies, it could take me a while to notice that it has died, if I haven't set up monitoring. With Kubernetes, it will just restart itself using Heartbeats."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"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."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"This product is quite easy to use and is available on-demand."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"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."
"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"I have not had a problem with the stability. It is reliable."
"It is stable and scalable. It is useful for many applications and services, such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive."
"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 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."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"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."
"One thing that I'd really like to see is auto-scaling node pools for their Kubernetes. I don't think that they have that. That's a huge one and would be very helpful. Specifically, what I would like is auto-scaling node pools that would scale down to zero nodes, which is tricky. That's very important for certain use cases."
"It would be helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having more virtual machine operating systems available."
"From a security perspective, there is always something that can be improved as we serve our customers."
"I would like to see more automation and AI with the cloud to help the clients understand more about their clients, their history data, and their predictive analytics. This would help them better manage their clients."
"The solution should emulate what MuleSoft is doing. At the moment MuleSoft has a lot of other features compared to Azure API integration."
"Azure calculator could be improved, there are issues with login synchronization."
"I think the cloud interface could be improved."
"The initial setup is quite complex because of the number of options that are available."
"An issue I encountered was around the integration of Identity. I lost some important information and I would like to see improvements with this."
Linode is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 21 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 197 reviews. Linode is rated 9.2, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Linode writes "Helpful automation scripts, good documentation, responsive support, easy to use and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "This helps us meet multiple requirements other PaaS solutions do not but there is a lot of room for improvement". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Google Firebase, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Platform, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Linode vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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