"With Microsoft Azure, we have a platform that lets us easily deploy applications to the cloud."
"The redundancy across different regions is the most valuable. It provides a big value for cloud services, especially for Microsoft."
"It is a very easy-to-use platform, and it is very powerful in terms of data backup and Blob storage. It has very good features, especially if you are using Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft SQL Server."
"There are plenty of functions available that we have used extensively. It is a complete platform of services."
"It's very easy to build a new service and get it into production."
"Great features at a good price."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ease of use and the enhancements are continually being updated."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure is the flexibility you have for all the services and solutions it offers, even if you use IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS, you have the option to only pay for the services you use."
"Provides support throughout the whole platform."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability for the applications."
"The solution provides a lot of flexibility to the application team for running their applications in the container platform, without needing to monitor the entire infrastructure all the time. It automatically scales and automatically self-heals. There is also a mechanism to alert the team in case it is over-committing or overutilizing the application."
"A problem with Azure is that the architecture that they have is not really compliant — not really connecting with the endpoint Cloud."
"I would like to see improved migration tools. It is improving week by week. They just need to make sure that they keep up with the new functionality provided in other clouds."
"As compared to AWS, Azure can improve its functionality. In terms of the feature list, it is still lacking a bit as compared to AWS. AWS supports lots of types of operating systems, which Azure is still catching up with. Azure is mainly focused on the Windows system, and it is not yet there in terms of integration with other operating systems like Linux, Unix. Azure is slowly catching up."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"Could be more user friendly; initial setup is difficult to understand."
"Stability can suffer in the context of a large architecture."
"They can improve the number of requests. Maybe they can increase it from 5,000 requests to 10,000 requests a month. Sometimes when you try to connect, it is quite unresponsive. When you want to communicate using the API, you get an internal error."
"Because it has a lot of features, a person just coming into Microsoft Azure might feel that it is a bit complex."
"The solution only offers support for one server."
"Documentation and technical support could be improved. The product is good, but when we raise a case with support—say we are having an image issue—the support is not really up to the mark. It is difficult to get support... When we raise a case, their support people will hesitate to get on a call or a screen-sharing session. That is a major drawback when it comes to OpenShift."
"Not a ten because it's not a standard solution and the endpoint protection user has to prepare with documentation or have training from other people. It's not easy to start because it's not like other solutions."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 185 reviews while OpenShift is ranked 6th in PaaS Clouds with 3 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while OpenShift is rated 7.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenShift writes "Managing infrastructure is easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling, but technical support is not up to the mark". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Google Firebase and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, whereas OpenShift is most compared with Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, VMware Tanzu Application Service, Oracle Cloud Platform and VMware vRealize Automation (vRA). See our Microsoft Azure vs. OpenShift report.
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