We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Platform based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Azure wins out in this comparison. Our reviewers agree that Microsoft Azure is a robust, easy to manage, and stable solution. Oracle Cloud Platform did come out on top in the Pricing and Ease of Deployment categories.
"Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"Provides a high level of availability and 99% uptime."
"The technical support has been good."
"Microsoft Azure has thousands of services and products."
"Azure allows us to bring applications to life quickly."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is it has everything together in one place. It is one large tool with lots of small tools that are updated often."
"The product is rather stable. We haven't had any issues with it in that sense."
"The most valuable features of the Oracle Cloud Platform are good visualization and analytics. The solution is very well integrated with predictive analytics and forecasting. These features go beyond the traditional reports and visualization."
"The simple infrastructure of the service is very useful."
"I like having the ability to easily run Oracle Linux server instances and to deploy Oracle Middleware and WebLogic servers. Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service products are also very useful, and we're using those right now within Oracle OCI."
"Oracle does well when it comes to data privacy and security, which are critical."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the high level of performance for the databases."
"The pricing of the solution is pretty good."
"The technical support is good, they have been responsive and helpful."
"Oracle offers more of the basic functionality needs."
"The level of authorization or authorization cascading can be improved. We have the most powerful admins and then we have sub-admins, but the level of authorization is not that easy to handle or manage."
"They're already doing quite a bit. I'm not unsatisfied with anything that they're doing right now. They can maybe make the transitions a little smoother and improve its pricing. The pricing for the end-user packages is a bit high."
"The scalability could improve."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Customer services and support should be improved. If a user faces challenges in accessing Microsoft Azure, the support team takes time—it could be 24 to 48 hours—to resolve them. We need solutions in four to five hours. And there are business-critical issues where we need an immediate resolution."
"Could be more user friendly; security features should be improved."
"If you compare it with AWS, it is not very friendly to use. I find the UI better to work with on AWS."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by being more secure."
"The portfolio should improve for the Oracle Cloud Platform. Oracle has to increase the services offered. New services should be added to be able to compete better with Amazon AWS which is the best, and the biggest service. Oracle Cloud Platform has a small portfolio, but it's a good one."
"There should be more management automation."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"I work with many clouds and I would say, in comparison, others have a better presentation of services and they have clearer steps in terms of implementation."
"Specific to the Oracle Cloud; while they have been able to showcase inbuilt features for Oracle applications, what doesn't really come across clearly is what happens when you want to host, work with, or integrate with applications outside of the Oracle stack."
"The scalability requires some improvement. This is one of the most important things they need to get better at."
"Sometimes when we install something, we need to partition and maybe rebuild the index. This can cause some issues for performance. In the future, I would like to see more stability and fewer bugs."
"Amazon AWS has a better solution overall."
Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 188 reviews while Oracle Cloud Platform is ranked 5th in PaaS Clouds with 16 reviews. Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Oracle Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Optimized cloud solution with reliable recovery and fail services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Cloud Platform writes "Great database with good stability and a very good interface". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and IBM Public Cloud, whereas Oracle Cloud Platform is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud, OpenShift and Heroku. See our Microsoft Azure vs. Oracle Cloud Platform report.
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