Azure Cloud Services vs. Azure SQL Managed Instance

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Cloud Services
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Azure Cloud Services is a cloud platform that enables users to create infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs. It enables users to build the web and cloud applications needed while also simplifying the management of applications with cloud services, and while ensuring high availability. Users can: scale an environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs, automate operating system and application updates to increase security, and take advantage of integrated health monitoring…N/A
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Azure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that combines SQL Server database engine compatibility with a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure Cloud ServicesAzure SQL Managed Instance
Considered Both Products
Azure Cloud Services
Chose Azure Cloud Services
I feel AWS offers a robust and versatile platform for cloud infrastructure and services. It's scalability, reliability array of tools make it a top choice for businesses of all sizes. AWS has better open source communities such as Linux, Jenkins and GitHub in comparison to …
Chose Azure Cloud Services
We use Azure Cloud Services mainly for CI/CD purposes along with Azure Cloud Foundry for runtime.
Chose Azure Cloud Services
Microsoft Cloud Platform is a highly intuitive Cloud platform with an abundance of incredible features and data migration capabilities and changes management ability is reliable and no need to worry about data loss when moving data and information over this platform because of …
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Chose Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure to our enviironment where we have everything integrated stacks up far better than MySQL where we would have to reinvent and use everything to fit a MySQL environment including the data and the commands within that data. Furthermore, doesn't work really well on SQL …
Features
Azure Cloud ServicesAzure SQL Managed Instance
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure Cloud Services
9.0
Ratings
12% above category average
Azure SQL Managed Instance
8.4
Ratings
5% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces8.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Scalability9.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Platform management overhead9.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability8.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Platform access control9.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration9.50 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Development environment creation9.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Development environment replication9.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Issue recovery8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes9.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
AWS Lambda
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Cloud ServicesAzure SQL Managed Instance
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User Testimonials
Azure Cloud ServicesAzure SQL Managed Instance
Likelihood to Recommend
I like the security provided by Microsoft Cloud Platform that gives us comfort that our Clouds data and applications are safe and secure with excellent backups and recovery capabilities and our entire organization depend on this platform for effective data migration. The system integrations with this platform are highly intuitive with the ease to customize its API and excellent performance monitoring capability to all our Clouds applications.
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Runs the supply chain workload well. Able to provide proper alerts when the cpu is not enough to run the workload. Is able to run the update stats automatically as the data changes. Scales very well for most oltp apps. Has good dashboards to show what is going on the database.
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Pros
  • Azure excels in providing scalable infrastructure and services. For example, organizations can use Azure Virtual Machines to dynamically adjust computing resources based on demand.
  • Azure's Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, such as Azure App Service, empower developers to focus on building applications without dealing with the underlying infrastructure.
  • Azure seamlessly integrates with on-premises environments, facilitating a hybrid cloud approach.
  • Azure Functions allows organizations to execute code in a serverless environment, triggering functions in response to events without the need to provision or manage servers.
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  • executes the queries efficiently
  • has tools/dashboards to show where the query problems lie
  • alerting for problems
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Cons
  • Azure MySQL single server to flexible server migration
  • Database Migration Services
  • Azure VMs
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  • hard to use without Microsoft knowledge
  • Intimidating CLI
  • Commands are not intuitive
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Usability
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it runs the workload very well without causing any issues to the business. there are many applications running on Azure SQL Managed Instances in my organization. Most users are happy with its performance. Is able to provide good dashboard for the visibility of the workload. Can add cpu without a downtime to deal with high workload.
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Alternatives Considered
I feel AWS offers a robust and versatile platform for cloud infrastructure and services. It's scalability, reliability array of tools make it a top choice for businesses of all sizes. AWS has better open source communities such as Linux, Jenkins and GitHub in comparison to Azure service cloud
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Azure to our enviironment where we have everything integrated stacks up far better than MySQL where we would have to reinvent and use everything to fit a MySQL environment including the data and the commands within that data. Furthermore, doesn't work really well on SQL Management Studio which makes it completely useless for what we are trying to do.
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Return on Investment
  • Remote data accessibility via the platform is effective.
  • Data security through the system is guaranteed.
  • Easy data recovery solution.
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  • Decision Driven decisions have been quicker
  • Negatively cumbersome at start when training
  • Positive use of PaaS services instead of devoting VMs
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