Azure Container Apps vs. UpCloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Container Apps
Score 5.9 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
UpCloud
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
UpCloud is a global cloud hosting company offering cloud servers on an hourly billed infrastructure-as-a-service. Their IaaS services include MaxIOPS block storage, their Simple backup service, SDN services, and resource isolation.
$0.09
per month per GB
Pricing
Azure Container AppsUpCloud
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
Private Cloud Storage
€0.085
per month per GB
Block Storage - Standard
€0.085
per month
Block Storage - MaxIOPS
€0.220
per month
SDN Private Networks - Floating IP address
€3.15
per month
Private Cloud Hosts -Standard Nodes
€2,499
per month
Cloud Servers - General Purpose
Starting from €7
per month
GPU Servers
Starting from €1.111
per hour
Cloud Servers - High CPU
Starting from €130
per month
Cloud Servers - Developer
Starting from €3
per month
Cloud Servers - High Memory
Starting from €40
per month
Cloud Servers - Cloud Native
Starting from €12
per month
Relational Databases - 1 Node
Starting from €30
per month
Managed Object Storage
starting from €5
per month 250GB
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Container AppsUpCloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsExact prices depend on memory and CPU demands.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Azure Container AppsUpCloud
Features
Azure Container AppsUpCloud
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure Container Apps
5.3
2 Ratings
38% below category average
UpCloud
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces5.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability5.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control4.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration4.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation4.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification5.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Azure Container Apps
-
Ratings
UpCloud
6.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
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User Ratings
Azure Container AppsUpCloud
Likelihood to Recommend
6.5
(2 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
2.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Container AppsUpCloud
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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UpCloud
If you're looking for a cost-effective solution then this is a good choice, be sure to keep on top of your balance! The 100% uptime is also a nice addition, although not unique in a cloud hosting service.
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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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UpCloud
  • Pricing
  • Ease of use - super easy to manage existing servers and deploy new ones
  • Great customer service
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Continue to enhance security
  • Better pricing
  • Flexibility
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UpCloud
  • The billing reports are quite hard to read, could be simplified
  • A control panel function would be useful
  • The re-billing process could be better, not so cut throat if you miss a payment!
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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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UpCloud
No answers on this topic
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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UpCloud
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
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UpCloud
We trialed UpCloud to see if it would be better than DigitalOcean but for our needs, it was not. On DigitalOcean once a droplet is created, almost no thought needs to go into maintenance, outages, or other reliability-based issues.
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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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UpCloud
  • The low cost means you don't really need to worry about pricing
  • To us as a business it was not as useful as DigitalOcean
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