We performed a comparison between Linode and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"The number one thing we like about Linode isn't necessarily a service, it's their support. We've found their support to be absolutely fantastic. They've been so outstanding with their support. Every single time we call them and we ask for advice or help, they go above and beyond and it's really made us appreciate what they do."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"The simplicity by which you can handle your inventory is one of the things I like the most."
"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."
"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."
"The solution is easy to manage within the cloud application, has good performance, and is secure."
"The time to market is fast compared back to the traditional on-premise hosting. That is one of the better things I can say because there is no need to worry. The Pack services will enable it to start immediately."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"The integration with Databricks is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Great features at a good price."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration between all of the components in Azure."
"Being able to set up, change and configure VMs is easy - a lot easier than in AWS."
"If you have large traffic amounts, Microsoft Azure will continue to provide our customers with the best storage experience."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."
"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"I'm not sure what could be improved at Linode since they're likely already making enhancements, especially with the Akamai acquisition and, I don't have any specific suggestions as I haven't encountered any major issues. I might consider using API for managing DNS records, but overall, I'm satisfied with Linode."
"Talking from a networking perspective, when you create a file or a rule in Azure and you want to view this IP group, sometimes the way it is displayed on the GUI, you don't see the name of the group."
"Any time you use a cloud service, there are increased security risks. If you want more security, you have to have private hosting."
"The deployment was quite complex."
"Due to the pandemic, I haven't been able to utilize their full resources. This has made it complicated to scale up. I hope this will be resolved after the pandemic."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"Quite an expensive solution."
"Integration with other services could be much better."
Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 298 reviews. Linode is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Google Kubernetes Engine and Amazon EKS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. See our Linode vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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