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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure App Service

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AThe 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

    Host4ASP.NET Hosting

    N/AN/AHost4ASP.net is a website hosting service recognized as a Microsoft golden web hosting provider built entirely for .NET developers.N/A

    Red Hat OpenShift

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AOpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

    $0.08

    per hour

    Pricing
    Azure App ServiceHost4ASP.NET HostingRed Hat OpenShift
    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 ServiceHost4ASP.NET HostingRed Hat OpenShift
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo 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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    Azure App ServiceHost4ASP.NET HostingRed Hat OpenShift
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    Red Hat
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    It is a good and entertaining tool

    Es una herramientas Buena y entretenidad
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    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    Red Hat OpenShift able to do on prem
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    Redhat has a high license cost but offers support and the ability to run workloads anywhere with practically no changes.
    Red hat allows easier shelling into a container to inspect what is wrong, VS ECS or EKS. There is a lengthy blog post on how to do that for ECS on AWSs blog. …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    82%
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    268 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
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    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    322 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    218 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    255 Answers
    Features
    Azure App ServiceHost4ASP.NET HostingRed Hat OpenShift
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure App Service and Host4ASP.NET Hosting and Red Hat OpenShift
    Feature
    Azure App Service
    6.2
    7 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Host4ASP.NET Hosting
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    Red Hat OpenShift
    8.4
    324 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces7.37 Ratings00 Ratings8.6275 Ratings
    Scalability6.97 Ratings00 Ratings9.3309 Ratings
    Platform management overhead7.37 Ratings00 Ratings8.3290 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability6.35 Ratings00 Ratings8.6262 Ratings
    Platform access control7.46 Ratings00 Ratings8.3291 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration5.86 Ratings00 Ratings8.5273 Ratings
    Development environment creation6.27 Ratings00 Ratings8.6283 Ratings
    Development environment replication5.96 Ratings00 Ratings8.3270 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification6.27 Ratings00 Ratings7.9284 Ratings
    Issue recovery4.26 Ratings00 Ratings8.1279 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes4.76 Ratings00 Ratings8.5285 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure App ServiceHost4ASP.NET HostingRed Hat OpenShift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (339 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (26 ratings)
    Usability
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (125 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    8.0
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Azure App ServiceHost4ASP.NET HostingRed Hat OpenShift
    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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    Host4ASP.net
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    Red Hat
    Red Hat OpenShift, despite its complexity and overhead, remains the most complete and enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform available. It excels in research projects like ours, where we need robust CI/CD, GPU scheduling, and tight integration with tools like Jupyter, OpenDataHub, and Quiskit. Its security, scalability, and operator ecosystem make it ideal for experimental and production-grade AI workloads. However, for simpler general hosting tasks—such as serving static websites or lightweight backend services—we find traditional VMs, Docker, or LXD more practical and resource-efficient. Red Hat OpenShift shines in complex, container-native workflows, but can be overkill for basic infrastructure needs.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Extremely easy to deploy and update from Visual Studio
    • It integrates seamlessly with other Azure PaaS resources
    • It has an in-depth integration with AppInsights, so you can understand errors and their root cause easily.
    • Easy to create and delete, what is not the same case in a IaaS resource
    • It escalates based on CPU workload and some other resource variables.
    • Configuration changes are almost immediate
    • Offers an excellent abstraction from hardware backend of the platform
    • That's updated very often, saving time and the risk of a self-performed update over a IaaS
    • That's really easy to develop for Web Apps
    • It supports Function Apps and Web Apps into the same "cost black box"
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    Red Hat
    • We had a few microservices that dealt with notifications and alerts. We used OpenShift to deploy these microservices, which handle and deliver notifications using publish-subscribe models.
    • We had to expose an API to consumers via MTLS, which was implemented using Server secret integration in OpenShift. We were then able to deploy the APIs on OpenShift with API security.
    • We integrated Splunk with OpenShift to view the logs of our applications and gain real-time insights into usage, as well as provide high availability.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Jumps between resource sizes can get expensive
    • You may wind up putting a lot of eggs in one basket--not necessarily a con but something to keep in mind (most of your data will likely be managed and processed through Microsoft products/services if you fully commit to Azure App Service).
    • Learning new technology. If you're moving from on-premises to Azure App Service (or any cloud solutions), you'll likely have to rethink how things are done to achieve the same end results (and/or resources may become expensive quickly).
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    Red Hat
    • I wouldn't necessarily say there is look everyday technology transform. I can see a trend wherein Red Hat OpenShift is adopting all the new technology trends and helping their customers align with their priorities and the emerging technology trends. I wouldn't call out various scope for development every day. There is scope for development. It is all how the organizations adopt it and how they deliver it to their customers. I don't want to call out there is scope for development. It's happening. It is a never ending process.
    • At the moment, I don't have anything to call out. We are experiencing Red Hat OpenShift and we can see every day they're coming up with new features as and when they come up with new features, we want to experience it more and more. We are looking for opportunities wherein this can be leveraged to help our users and partners.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Host4ASP.net
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    This is the current strategy for the company, most of the products in the organisation are aligning to Openshift and various use cases it support. Also lot of applications are being developed for AI use case, openshift.AI provides opportunity to host and leverage the AI capabilities for these applications
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    I have given this rating because Azure App Service performs very well in terms of speed, reliability, and reducing overhead, and improves overall team productivity, with a little scope for improvement in complex testing scenarios and configurations, scalability concerns in a large setup, and similar tracking and audit needs.
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    Host4ASP.net
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    Red Hat
    As I said before, the obserability is one of the weakest point of OpenShift and that has a lot to do with usability. The Kibana console is not fully integrated with OpenShift console and you have to switch from tab to tab to use it. Same with Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafan, it's a "simple" integration but if you want to do complex queries or dashboards you have to go to the specific console
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
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    Host4ASP.net
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    Red Hat
    Redhat openshift is generally reliable and available platform, it ensures high availability for most the situations. in fact the product where we put openshift in a box, we ensure that the availability is also happening at node and network level and also at storage level, so some of the factors that are outside of Openshift realm are also working in HA manner.
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    Performance
    Microsoft
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    Host4ASP.net
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    Red Hat
    Overall, this platform is beneficial. The only downsides we have encountered have been with pods that occasionally hang. This results in resources being dedicated to dead or zombie pods. Over time, these wasted resources occasionally cause us issues, and we have had difficulty monitoring these pods. However, this issue does not overshadow the benefits we get from Openshift.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Microsoft has always been known for providing a high standard in terms of customer support and Azure App Service (and as a matter of fact the whole Azure Platform) is no exception. Azure App Service never caused us any issues and we only contacted their customer support for questions regarding server locations and pricing. I feel pretty satisfied with how they treat their customers.
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    Red Hat
    Their customer support team is good and quick to respond. On a couple of occassions, they have helped us in solving some issues which we were finding a tad difficult to comprehend. On a rare occasion, the response was a bit slow but maybe it was because of the festival season. Overall a good experience on this front.
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    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Host4ASP.net
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    Red Hat
    I was not involved in the in person training, so i
    can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly
    with Openshift and able to get the in person training done easily, i did not
    hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen
    seamlessly without any issue.
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
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    Host4ASP.net
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    Red Hat
    We went thru the training material on RH webesite, i think its very descriptive and the handson lab sesssions are very useful. It would be good to create more short duration videos covering one single aspect of openshift, this wll keep the interest and also it breaks down the complexity to reasonable chunks.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    When we chose it, we did so because of its integration with Microsoft applications; now we need to integrate with AI, and Azure doesn't offer a good integration. That is the main reason to change it. It is still great to develop Windows- and Microsoft-based applications, but if we need to integrate with AI, Google wins by far.
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    Host4ASP.net
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    Red Hat
    The Tanzu Platform seemed overly complicated, and the frequent changes to the portfolio as well as the messaging made us uneasy. We also decided it would not be wise to tie our application platform to a specific infrastructure provider, as Tanzu cannot be deployed on anything other than vSphere. SUSE Rancher seemed good overall, but ultimately felt closer to a DIY approach versus the comprehensive package that Red Hat OpenShift provides.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Host4ASP.net
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    Red Hat
    It's easy to understand what are being billed and what's included in each type of subscription. Same with the support (Std or Premium) you know exactly what to expect when you need to use it. The "core" unit approach on the subscription made really simple to scale and carry the workloads from one site to another.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Host4ASP.net
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    Red Hat
    This is a great platform to deployment container applications designed for multiple use cases. Its reasonably scalable platform, that can host multiple instances of applications, which can seamlessly handle the node and pod failure, if they are configured properly. There should be some scalability best practices guide would be very useful
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Deployment of ASP.NET apps at the organization has been sped up.
    • An option to offer access to the version control system on a third platform so that we could easily deploy our apps.
    • Because of Azure App Service's scalability capabilities, the costs of running the services are kept to a minimum. As a result, we may save hundreds of dollars each month compared to the expenses of traditional servers by using fewer resources during slack periods.
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    Red Hat
    • That is a complicated question and one that's not easy for me to answer. There's a lot of factors that go into all of the stuff that we just don't have an easy way of measuring. And we realize that while we're implementing Red Hat OpenShift, we've tried to start measuring some of that stuff, but we don't have a baseline to go on. So it's hard to say. What I can tell you is general experience with the platform has been extremely positive from the development aspect. Teams have been very, very happy with the speed at which they're able to do stuff. They've been happy with that. The way it works in one environment is exactly the way it works in the next environment because we don't have configuration drift, that type of thing, and has had very positive impacts. But we didn't have a baseline to start with. So I can't talk about getting there faster or anything like that.
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