We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need."
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"Elasticity has always been AWS's mandate. The flexibility of their platform from a systems perspective lives up to its claims."
"AWS is known for its scalable cloud hosting and computing services. We use various features depending on our needs, including endpoint services, database instances, and EC2 instances."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"Amazon AWS has good performance and easy management."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"The product's scalability is good."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."
"I'd love to see an Amazon data center here in Peru."
"Amazon AWS would be improved if it were more stable and if customer support's responses were faster."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"It just needs to be improved from the security perspective."
"The networking models used in AWS, while functional, do have room for improvement. This is especially the fact, considering that they are built/presented from a systems perspective."
"It works very well with open-source solutions like Java, but not with .NET technologies."
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."
"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."
"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."
"It should offer more security features."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in PaaS Clouds with 250 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Google Firebase, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our Amazon AWS vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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