Azure App Service vs. IBM Cloud Private

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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IBM Cloud Private is well suited for SaaS models.

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• 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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• There is a large variety of services available on IBM Cloud.
• This is my first experience with a PaaS and I haven’t had any major problems navigating around it.
• It is easy to deploy applications and services on IBM Cloud.

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• The Azure is providing little less amount of data centers, so they can increase the data centers.
• Customized development; Azure needs to provide some more options to customize
• Some of the essential things about the viewers and logs must be provided. Currently I feel they are putting limit on monitoring.

• More hands on training outside of virtual classes would be helpful.

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To change from one tech stack to another is very hard. Converting from the .NET environment to an agnostic environment without AI takes a long time, and if we want to use AI to make the conversion, it's better to use external solutions like Claude. Copilot can't handle the conversion, generating tons of errors and hallucinations.

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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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AWS CodeDeploy certainly feels powerful; however, to perform some tasks with it will require some scripting experience. Azure App Service provides deployment, scaling, and hosting in a single, managed platform, and it feels easy and very well laid out. It is also dev- and qa-friendly, enabling faster deployments and improving overall team productivity.

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With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.

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• Azure App Service has allowed us to quickly deploy high-budget projects very quickly, netting us a healthy profit vs the cost to develop. (We make, on average, about 10x what it costs to get up and running per project thanks to how easy it is to implement a skeleton framework.)
• Costs are low to run the services thanks to the scaling functionality that comes with Azure App Service. We can utilize less resources during slow times and save hundreds of dollars per month vs costs of traditional servers.

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