Azure Cloud Services vs. IBM Cloud Private

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
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.6 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.N/A
Pricing
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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
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Community Pulse
Azure Cloud ServicesIBM Cloud Private
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 …
IBM Cloud Private
Chose IBM Cloud Private
With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.
Features
Azure Cloud ServicesIBM Cloud Private
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
IBM Cloud Private
9.7
Ratings
19% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces8.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Scalability9.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform management overhead9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability8.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform access control9.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration9.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Development environment creation9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Development environment replication9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Issue recovery8.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes9.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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Azure Cloud ServicesIBM Cloud Private
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
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
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
Azure Cloud ServicesIBM Cloud Private
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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IBM Cloud Private is well suited for SaaS models.
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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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  • There is a large variety of services available on IBM Cloud.
  • This is my first experience with a PaaS and I haven’t had any major problems navigating around it.
  • It is easy to deploy applications and services on IBM Cloud.
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Cons
  • Azure MySQL single server to flexible server migration
  • Database Migration Services
  • Azure VMs
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  • More hands on training outside of virtual classes would be helpful.
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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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With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.
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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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