We performed a comparison between DigitalOcean 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 most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The solution is very stable."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"Everything is very good by way of performance."
"There are plenty of functions available that we have used extensively. It is a complete platform of services."
"The product provides a host of security tools."
"It's a great solution. It's so customizable. Every user can create dashboards to suit their needs. We can create and share them with our teammates easily, too."
"Azure is very user friendly. I was able to create some database servers really fast. The user interface is intuitive."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Some features of Azure are very important for us. You can control access for your company, it's not complicated managing the solution either. I think the solution is very stable, secure and the documentation Microsoft has on their website is complete. You can use it to find the solution's problems or implement solutions."
"It's a cloud service, so it's always up to date."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"There is a need to be better on-premise solutions that are more helpful. However, I don't think that is the goal of Microsoft Azure. They want the solution to be secure cloud solutions with cloud applications. This is their main goal at the moment."
"Overall, the solution is good but there are some minor technical issues that can be resolved."
"Technical support needs to be better."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"The level of authorization or authorization cascading can be improved. We have the most powerful admins and then we have sub-admins, but the level of authorization is not that easy to handle or manage."
"Integration with other cloud environments can be tricky at times."
DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. DigitalOcean is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and SAP S4HANA on AWS, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. See our DigitalOcean vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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