We performed a comparison between Linode and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The fact that you can do any Linux distribution is great. You can try out any Linux distribution, even some of the more obscure ones, and they are always keeping them up-to-date. As soon as a new distribution comes out, it is on the platform pretty much the same day, which I find really helpful."
"The solution integrates easily."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"For small businesses and people who have some technical skills and are good with Linux command line, this solution is great. I love Linode because it is very fast. Whereas, the same configuration on Azure and AWS will be so slow. The best thing is that their pricing and speed are great."
"It is also important that Linode offers worldwide coverage via multiple data centers. The ability to deploy on multiple servers, worldwide, allows us to have distributed services and failover and redundancy."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"It is easy to use. It is also stable."
"Technical support, from what I understand, is quite helpful and we speak with them regularly."
"It's been pretty useful in terms of migration and disaster recovery strategy."
"It's a flexible solution."
"It's very easy to build a new service and get it into production."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the value for money and flexibility."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is stable and scalable. It is useful for many applications and services, such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and OneDrive."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."
"I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode."
"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."
"There was a time when the solution was updated on their side and all of our functions stopped working. This issue could be worked on to prevent it from happening in the future. They must give us the information of when they are going to updates on the platform side so that we can take the appropriate measures on our side as well."
"The tool needs to improve its navigation."
"The solution should emulate what MuleSoft is doing. At the moment MuleSoft has a lot of other features compared to Azure API integration."
"The solution needs to offer more data analysis services."
"The support, the cost, the way they have the tiers, this could all be improved."
"The local support is fair but it is sometimes limited, the service could be better."
"I would like to see all of the cloud providers be more compatible with each other."
"The documentation can be outdated and is not as clear in Microsoft Azure as it is in AWS or Google."
Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Linode is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, Google Kubernetes Engine and Amazon EKS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Heroku. See our Linode vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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