Azure Automation vs. Platform9 Managed OpenStack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Automation
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Azure Automation is a solution to automate frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks, and ensures consistent management for Windows and Linux. Users can write runbooks graphically in PowerShell or Python to integrate Azure services and other public systems required for deploying, configuring, and managing end-to-end processes. It can also be used to orchestrate across on-premises environments using a hybrid runbook worker to deliver on-demand services. Automations from…N/A
Platform9 Managed OpenStack
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Platform9's Managed OpenStack enables users to deploy and operate OpenStack Hybrid Cloud with a 100% SaaS based service. The SaaS platform lets users go live with an OpenStack private cloud with its deployment tools. The Platform9 dashboard is designed to offer visibility into infrastructure across compute, storage, network, and existing workloads.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Azure Automation
7.2
1 Ratings
14% below category average
Platform9 Managed OpenStack
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Multi-platform scheduling5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Central monitoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Logging8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and notifications8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Analysis and visualization8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application integration6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure AutomationPlatform9 Managed OpenStack
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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User Testimonials
Azure AutomationPlatform9 Managed OpenStack
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
We have found Azure Automation to be well-suited for tasks that must be performed on a scheduled basis. No matter how simple or tedious tasks are to perform manually, if they run on a scheduled basis, it makes sense to have them automated. If the tasks at hand are only performed once or infrequently, then it may be best to continue performing them manually.
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Platform9
If you're having OnPremise Infrastructure and you want to use OpenStack in that case Platform9 Managed OpenStack is recommended to use it will cut down all the complexities of setting up and managing OpenStack IaaS. Platform9 also offers setting up OpenStack on Cloud Such as AWS, GCP, and Azure but wouldn't recommend using this kind of offering as Openstack performs well when underneath virtualized infrastructure is backed directly hypervisors not cloud providers.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Scheduled automation of Microsoft 365 and Azure tasks
  • Scheduled automation of scripting (e.g. Powershell)
  • Perform periodic maintenance
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Platform9
  • It removes all the Openstack complexities and provides a simple UI to the end user.
  • Reduced the pain of System Administrator and Engineers.
  • Highly responsive support.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • An automation template library would be nice
  • Clear estimation of costs - this goes for the entire Azure Automation platform
  • It can be daunting at first due to all the settings and menu levels, but it is not difficult once you get started.
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Platform9
  • User interface and User experience are not upto the mark. UI needs lots of improvements.
  • We need to do entire setup from the scratch.
  • Nothing as such other than UI Improvements.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
We did not evaluate any other automation products since we are already using Microsoft 365 and the Azure platform. Additionally, Azure Automation allows for a reasonable number of tasks to be performed each month at no cost, which is especially nice when testing the platform. We found Azure Automate's integration of Powershell invaluable when working directly with Microsoft 365, Sharepoint, Azure AD, and other systems via API.
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Platform9
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Ensures tasks are not forgotten
  • Saves times - routine tasks no longer have to be performed manually
  • Complicated tasks are no longer an issue
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Platform9
  • Platform9 simplified scaling in and out hypervisors now adding capacity takes very less time than other OpenStack environments.
  • Platfrom9 Managed Openstack gives us feeling of having our own private cloud!
  • It has increased the availability of our infrastructure which resulted lessen downtime on workloads deployed on top of it.
  • Overall it benefited us in all means.
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