Azure App Service vs. IBM Cloud Functions
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 Azure App Service | Score8.8 out of 10 | N/A | The Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby. | $9.49 per month |
 IBM Cloud Functions | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | IBM Cloud Functions is a PaaS platform based on Apache OpenWhisk. With it, developers write code (“actions”) that respond to external events. Actions are hosted, executed, and scaled on demand based on the number of events coming in. No servers or infrastructure to provision and manage. | $0 per second of execution |
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| Additional Details | Free and Shared (preview) plans are ideal for testing applications in a managed Azure environment. Basic, Standard and Premium plans are for production workloads and run on dedicated Virtual Machine instances. Each instance can support multiple applications and domains. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.9 | 3.0 |
| Support Rating | 10.0 | - |