Azure Container Apps vs. IBM Cloud Private

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Container Apps
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
Azure Container Apps, part of the Azure suite of products from Microsoft, is a service used to deploy containerized apps without managing complex infrastructure. Users can write code using a preferred programming language or framework, and build microservices with full support for Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Scale dynamically based on HTTP traffic or events powered by Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA).N/A
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform allowing users to build cloud-native applications on their own infrastructure. In addition, it offers common services for self-service deployment, monitoring, logging and security, as well as middleware, data and analytics.N/A
Pricing
Azure Container AppsIBM Cloud Private
Editions & Modules
vCPU (seconds)
active usage $0.000024 and idle usage $0.000003
per second 180,000 vCPU-seconds free grant per month
Memory (GiB-Seconds)
active usage $0.000003 and idle usage $0.000003
per second 360,000 GiB-seconds free grant per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Container AppsIBM Cloud Private
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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Azure Container AppsIBM Cloud Private
Features
Azure Container AppsIBM Cloud Private
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure Container Apps
5.4
2 Ratings
37% below category average
IBM Cloud Private
9.7
5 Ratings
21% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces5.62 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Scalability7.62 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.82 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Workflow engine capability5.62 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Platform access control4.72 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Services-enabled integration4.62 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Development environment creation4.42 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Development environment replication4.02 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification5.32 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Issue recovery4.02 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes6.52 Ratings10.03 Ratings
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Azure Container AppsIBM Cloud Private
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
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Score 8.4 out of 10
AWS Lambda
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Score 8.4 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
Red Hat OpenShift
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Container AppsIBM Cloud Private
Likelihood to Recommend
6.3
(2 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
2.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Container AppsIBM Cloud Private
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Container Apps is a welcome addition for sure. Based on my experience, this has enabled us to move fully to the cloud and managed everywhere in one spot and on the go. We can scale it to our end as much as we would like. It can be assess anywhere and it is fully secure
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IBM
IBM Cloud Private is an ideal platform for companies to accelerate their business growth. It helps in reducing the cost of IT and operations while delivering a great customer experience. With IBM Cloud Private, you can gain agility and security with a flexible hybrid model that fits your needs. It's highly recommended to my colleagues from me.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Gives user a level of autonomous access
  • No control plane or node pool to manage
  • Less kubernetes experience required
  • Easily integrate with Azure devops
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IBM
  • Capacity On Demand to scale up and down environments
  • SaaS model allows our team to have less involvement in managing or controlling the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities.
  • SaaS model allows our team to worry less about upgrades, fix packs, environment support etc.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Continue to enhance security
  • Better pricing
  • Flexibility
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IBM
  • Bluemix/IBM Cloud UI can be better
  • Changing Brand name from Bluemix to IBM Cloud, as we are habituated to Bluemix more
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
I would rather use AKS for my critical applications. The fact that the deployment process is dependent on as cli makes it hard for us to integrate with our standard CI/CD tools
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IBM
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Usability
Microsoft
Azure Container Apps are fantastic and it is a game changer. I would recommend it to anyone considering it. As you can scale it to what you would like and it is fully cloud native with better security. It is a no brainier not to consider it. I do believe that with further improve it will become even more attractive
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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
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IBM
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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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • As it is cloud native, we no longer required to have onsite prem
  • Reducing both from an energy and security perspective
  • It is worth the investment as we have saved about 10% of our ICT cost
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IBM
  • IBM Cloud has helped us start using the cloud and migrating old services to the cloud.
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