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AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs. Microsoft Azure

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Elastic Beanstalk

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AAWS Elastic Beanstalk is the platform-as-a-service offering provided by Amazon and designed to leverage AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

    $35

    per month

    Microsoft Azure

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

    $29

    per month

    Pricing
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkMicrosoft Azure
    Editions & Modules
    No Charge
    $0
    Users pay for AWS resources (e.g. EC2, S3 buckets, etc.) used to store and run the application.
    Developer
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $100
    per month
    Professional Direct
    $1000
    per month
    Basic
    Free
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkMicrosoft Azure
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—The free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.
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    Community Pulse
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkMicrosoft Azure
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Azure currently doesn't have a solution that's similar to this but you can do a lot of the features with several of the components that Microsoft Azure offers. AWS Elastic Beanstalk exists in that niche market where if you have an existing solution, this is a great way to move &…
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    We also use Heroku and it is a great platform for smaller projects and light Node.js services, but we have found that in terms of cost, the Elastic Beanstalk option is more affordable for the projects that we undertake. The fact that it sits inside of the greater AWS Cloud …
    Incentivized
    Chose AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a great option for an organization that's already invested in the AWS ecosystem. The greater the number of complementary features needed by the application (e.g. integrating with Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer, databases, etc), the greater the reward …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    As I continue to evaluate the "big three" cloud providers for our clients, I make the following distinctions, though this gap continues to close. AWS is more granular, and inherently powerful in the configuration options compared to [Microsoft] Azure. It is a "developer" …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    Azure was less developed but with our relationship and familiarity with the tool, it beat out the competition. The service itself has some areas that need to be improved but the current features are very promising. Given another year or two, it'll be up there with AWS and other …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Azure
    AWS is competitor and it's leading in cloud space with his wide sprawl of offerings and services. AWS is a ocean once you login you get everything on one console. AWS leads this space with all his offerings and capabilities. But Azure is not behind, it is competing and is …
    Incentivized
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    Features
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkMicrosoft Azure
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Microsoft Azure
    Feature
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    7.9
    29 Ratings
    Microsoft Azure
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces8.119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability7.129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead8.128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability7.123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control8.128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration8.128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation7.128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication8.129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Microsoft Azure
    Feature
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Azure
    8.5
    19 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.418 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.818 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AWS Elastic BeanstalkMicrosoft Azure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (29 ratings)
    8.8
    (88 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.4
    (28 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.1
    (28 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)