Azure App Service vs. Google Cloud Run

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure App Service
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
The Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby.
$9.49
per month
Google Cloud Run
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Run enables users to build and deploy scalable containerized apps written in any language (including Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, and Ruby) on a fully managed platform. Cloud Run can be paired with other container ecosystem tools, including Google's Cloud Build, Cloud Code, Artifact Registry, and Docker. And it features out-of-the-box integration with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, and Error Reporting to ensure the health of an application.N/A
Pricing
Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
Editions & Modules
Shared Environment for dev/test
$9.49
per month
Basic Dedicated environment for dev/test
$54.75
per month
Standard Run production workloads
$73
per month
Premium Enhanced performance and scale
$146
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFree and Shared (preview) plans are ideal for testing applications in a managed Azure environment. Basic, Standard and Premium plans are for production workloads and run on dedicated Virtual Machine instances. Each instance can support multiple applications and domains.
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Community Pulse
Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
Features
Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure App Service
8.7
5 Ratings
10% above category average
Google Cloud Run
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead7.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication9.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification9.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Azure App Service
-
Ratings
Google Cloud Run
7.4
15 Ratings
8% below category average
Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.415 Ratings
Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.114 Ratings
Cluster Management00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Storage Management00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings8.215 Ratings
Discovery Tools00 Ratings7.511 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings8.514 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings8.712 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings8.215 Ratings
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Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.4 out of 10
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(9 ratings)
8.6
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.4
(2 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
You may easily deploy your apps to Azure App Service if they were written in Visual Studio IDE (typically.NET applications). With a few clicks of the mouse, you may already deploy your application to a remote server using the Visual Studio IDE. As a result of the portal's bulk and complexity, I propose Heroku for less-experienced developers.
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Google
Microservices and RestFul API application as it is fast and reliant. Seamless integration with event triggers such as pubsub or event arc, so you can easily integrate that with usecases with file uploads, database changes, etc. Basically great with short-lived tasks, if however, you have long-running processses, Cloud Run might not be idle for this. For example if you have a long running data processing task, other solutions such as kubeflow pipelines or dataflow are more suited for this kind of tasks. Cloud Run is also stateless, so if you need memory, you will have to connect an external database.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • It has options to deploy using CI/CD.
  • It has great integration with Azure Devops
  • It has all the common runtimes, so we don't need to install softwares.
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Google
  • Auto scaling is the best one
  • provide direct VPC connectivity and rigid network
  • Cloud SQL and Pub/Sub services
  • Handling latency issues
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Cons
Microsoft
  • the learning curve can be tough (just like other azure services)
  • the UX/UI could be more intuitive (just like other azure services as well)
  • monitoring can be hard to understand
  • Microsoft's learning resources are hard to understand
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Google
  • The UI can be made simpler. Currently the UI is bloated and it takes time to find out what you want
  • More integrations with container registry providers (ECR, dockerhub)
  • Better permissions UX. Currently GCP requires service accounts to be used with cloud products, the experience adding/removing permissions is difficult to navigate
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Google
We definitely need to renew it because we dont own our own infrastructure and storage and we are happy with Cloud Run features
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Usability
Microsoft
I enjoy the fact that Azure App Service can be managed by the Azure portal and a fully graphical user interface, as well as from two different flavors of command-line interface, i.e. Azure CLI and Azure Powershell. By utilizing the Azure Cloud Shell, we are able to switch between Azure Bash (CLI) and Powershell at any given moment and manage the Azure App Service settings from devices of any form-factor (Web based management).
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Google
The UI/console is great... the documentation is top-notch for developers, but the CLI itself when you have to script around it is very complex and easy to forget some options... the downside of a generic command line client.
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Google
Not seen any major issues when we run applications its good
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Performance
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Google
Initially we felt slow but slowly it picked up and easy to manage
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Support Rating
Microsoft
We had an issue where we deployed too large of a resource and didn't notice until the bill came through. They were very understanding and saw we weren't utilizing the resources so they issued a generous refund in about 4 hours. Very fast, friendly, and understanding support reps from my experience.
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Google
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Google
I was involved in the initial implementation setup, Its easy with the given documentaiton we can do ourself. Not that critical
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure has many data center, their services are more reliable. Azure has way more features than both Linode and DigitalOcean. If someone wants a complete reliable service, he/she must go to Azure instead of Linode and DigitalOcean because even though azure charges more, it is worth the money you pay there.
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Google
AWS Lambda supports code zip package, enabling lower cold start time. Also, AWS Lambda pricing is much simpler, easier to understand.
Other than that, the 2 products are very similar, including the Docker image support: the image must be built based on proprietary base image.
Obviously, if your other services are running in GCP, then Google Cloud Run is your only choice for tight integration, & private networking.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Google
Not part of purchase.
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Scalability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Google
It has good auto scale feature and reliable also
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Professional Services
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Google
We have very good support when needed
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Reduced the deployment time of ASP .NET applications in the company.
  • Gave us an alternative to quickly deploy our applications without granting access to the version control system to a third platform.
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Google
  • Built in support for auto scaling helps reduce operational overhead
  • Any application performance issues can be addressed quickly by allocating more resources while a proper fix can be planned and rolled out later
  • Using Google Cloud Run enables development of microservices which provides granular control for scaling critical services in the platform
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