Azure App Service vs. Tanzu Application Catalog

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure App Service
Score 8.3 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
Tanzu Application Catalog
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
The Tanzu Application Catalog (or Bitnami) provides packaged applications for any platform. The platform delivers and maintains a catalog of 130+ ready-to-run server applications and development environments in partnership with cloud providers including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, driving over 1.5 million deployments per month. Bitnami was acquired by VMware in 2019.
$0.50
per month
Pricing
Azure App ServiceTanzu Application Catalog
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
10GB
$0.50
per month
T3A Nano
$3.38
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure App ServiceTanzu Application Catalog
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
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
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Features
Azure App ServiceTanzu Application Catalog
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure App Service
6.4
7 Ratings
19% below category average
Tanzu Application Catalog
8.1
5 Ratings
4% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces7.57 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Scalability7.27 Ratings8.35 Ratings
Platform management overhead7.17 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.45 Ratings8.45 Ratings
Platform access control7.76 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.36 Ratings8.45 Ratings
Development environment creation6.57 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Development environment replication6.26 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.47 Ratings7.35 Ratings
Issue recovery4.66 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes5.06 Ratings7.15 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.3 out of 10
AWS Lambda
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Score 8.3 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
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure App ServiceTanzu Application Catalog
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(9 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure App ServiceTanzu Application Catalog
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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Broadcom
The best way to take advantage of VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) is as in the case I mentioned, that you constantly implement these free software, where any time saved is important in terms of installation, configuration and testing environment, it really is a very useful solution, also if you need a good community and support; however the cloud and VMs solutions is not designed for huge products, these can be slow or remain insufficient if the use of these grows a lot, even though it is an easy-to-use product, you need to have enough knowledge in terms of installation and management of cloud solutions, a beginner can find himself in trouble
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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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Broadcom
  • pre-packaged templates they provide.
  • ease of cloud-deployment of your projects.
  • The development community page always has useful information and there is a lot of support.
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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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Broadcom
  • Possibility to configure the implementation through mobile devices
  • Sometimes the performance of the VMs is slower than expected
  • A best way to do the upgrades, you have reinstall and reconfigure in this process
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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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Broadcom
Most of it is intuitive. I think some of the awkwardness is found by new users who are unfamiliar with other software applications.
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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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Broadcom
They have an expert team, not just a frontline team that has learned the FAQs but a team that knows the product.
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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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Broadcom
VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) offers better tools to complete the task faster and more efficiently. The customer support and knowledge base is also well presented and trained
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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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Broadcom
  • We save a lot of time implementing the apps, less engineers working on this phase
  • The upgrade process of the apps can be a pain and a waste valuable time
  • The mains options of the VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) are free so is important for save money in our organization
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