Azure Cloud Services vs. Azure Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Cloud Services
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Azure Cloud Services is a cloud platform that enables users to create infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs. It enables users to build the web and cloud applications needed while also simplifying the management of applications with cloud services, and while ensuring high availability. Users can: scale an environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs, automate operating system and application updates to increase security, and take advantage of integrated health monitoring…
$0.02
per hour
Azure Monitor
Score 6.4 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Monitor is used to analyze and optimize the performance of web applications and infrastructure, including virtual machines (VMs), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Storage, and databases.
$2.76
pay as you go per GB
Pricing
Azure Cloud ServicesAzure Monitor
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Pay-As-You-Go
$2.76
per GB
100 GB per day
$219.5
2 per day
200 GB per day
$412.1
6 per day
300 GB per day
$604.8
0 per day
400 GB per day
$788.4
8 per day
500 GB per day
$968.8
0 per day
600 GB per day
$1,904
per day
700 GB per day
$3,718
40 per day
800 GB per day
$9,016
per day
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Cloud ServicesAzure Monitor
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Azure Cloud ServicesAzure Monitor
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure Cloud Services
8.3
4 Ratings
7% above category average
Azure Monitor
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration7.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication7.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure Cloud ServicesAzure Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(5 ratings)
7.6
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.7
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Cloud ServicesAzure Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Cloud services is a good choice for hosting web applications, based on requirements it can be simple websites or complex web services as well as it provides automating application development and deployment pipeline. It's less appropriate in case of cost-effective option for organizations with tight budget constraints. For very basic static websites, Microsoft Azure's offerings might be seen as overkill.
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Microsoft
We were able to get a single pane of glass for all our monitoring needs on Azure Monitor. However, we would like to see it improve to auto scale out and scale in depending on the load without human intervention. This can help us get to the No Ops model and rely on automated processes rather than manual intervention.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Effective service management and performance monitoring capability.
  • Reliable security management with excellent access controls.
  • Best orchestration and easy configuration management.
  • Easy on compatibility testing and change management.
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Microsoft
  • It supports all the Azure PAAS services.
  • Can monitor both infrastructure and application
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Latency and bandwidth as we often see gap here
  • There were many challenges as a developer while migrating our DB from on prem to cloud
  • System downtime is also one issue that can be improved
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Microsoft
  • Custom metrics
  • Ease of use
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Usability
Microsoft
As a certificate developer and consultant, I love using Azure, it's interface is developer friendly with well guidance and support. Also there are a lot of service for any work, Azure ecosystem is sufficient to complete your all developments needs. So based on that I feel Azure is good and gives better developer experience.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
I have not had to work with Azure Monitor support, so it is difficult to say how well the support team is. I assume that Azure has a well-versed team on the customer service side to assist with any issues customers may have. I may need them in the feature.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
I feel AWS offers a robust and versatile platform for cloud infrastructure and services. It's scalability, reliability array of tools make it a top choice for businesses of all sizes. AWS has better open source communities such as Linux, Jenkins and GitHub in comparison to Azure service cloud
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Microsoft
While other tools have their own unique capability, Azure Monitor helps us monitor essential PAAS services that are not supported by other tools. So even though we have one other APM tool, we still rely on Azure Monitor for some of the special PAAS services, this is a huge advantage.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Azure's services and automation capabilities contribute to operational efficiency.
  • Azure's scalability ensures optimal performance during peak demand periods and cost savings during off-peak times
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Microsoft
  • We are able to react quickly to the issues.
  • Debugging sessions are yielding quicker results to generate RCA.
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