Microsoft Azure vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Azure
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.
$29
per month
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft AzureOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Editions & Modules
Developer
$29
per month
Standard
$100
per month
Professional Direct
$1000
per month
Basic
Free
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft AzureOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsThe free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.
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Community Pulse
Microsoft AzureOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Azure

No answer on this topic

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Microsoft Azure Cloud does not provide the native Oracle Database service with features like RAC, ASM Exadata, etc. Hence, we decided to use the Oracle Cloud for the database platform instead of Azure. Also, Microsoft and Azure came to an agreement to work together where Azure …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
We did an proof of concept between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was the clear winner with us because of support of the product. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support staff was very knowledgeable and helpful …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
When compared to AWS, Azure, and Veem, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appeared to have a more robust offering for our primary objective of Disaster Recovery. The Oracle single click disaster recovery plan creation tool was especially beneficial as this is our first true …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure excels in website hosting Oracle workloads. It gives optimized infrastructure and database offerings for Oracle Database, making it a natural preference for businesses heavily reliant on Oracle technology. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's close …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Compared to its competitors, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the best solution for autonomous databases which reduces the overall operational burden on the team. It is best suited for regulated industries like Banking due to its enhanced compliance and security along with its …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
In one liner, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is second only to AWS in terms of cost effectiveness. But availability wise and performance wise it is at par with Amazon Web Services. Acquia Cloud doesn't have much comparison against Oracle Cloud Infrastructured as the later is …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) competes effectively with cloud giants like AWS, Azure and GCP. OCI's standout features include robust security and compliance measures, transparent pricing with cost optimization tools, high-performance computing capabilities, seamless …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
I think Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a long way to go to be at par with AWS, GCP & Azure infrastructure that have an established presence and repute proving functionality beyond what it has for Oracle databases
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
While AWS and Azure are more mature than Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we felt Oracle Cloud Infrastructure had a lower barrier to entry with a greater range of always-free services. It also provides free certification opportunities periodically which incentivised our engineers …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Lower cost, faster and more powerful in terms of high-capacity apps, and has solutions to meet the need of a specific group of customers.
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Honestly, It is much easier to use and operate your workloads on other cloud providers than Oracle, however, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure main advantage is its existence in some different countries/regions where others haven't established a foothold yet, making its cloud …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
We use Azure for most of company deployments, since we use Microsoft stack, but since we also use Oracle databases we were able to test OCI and compare the usage. I use OCI to test new features and solutions.
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon AWS is missing features like data mining, table partitioning.
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

on Azure you can't migrate your licenses

azure is good for other instances like SQL servers that we own

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Microsoft AzureOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
8.6
17 Ratings
6% above category average
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
7.8
114 Ratings
4% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.816 Ratings8.2111 Ratings
Dynamic scaling9.316 Ratings8.0110 Ratings
Elastic load balancing8.816 Ratings7.9103 Ratings
Pre-configured templates7.116 Ratings7.3101 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.116 Ratings7.8109 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.415 Ratings7.498 Ratings
Operating system support9.416 Ratings7.6109 Ratings
Security controls9.016 Ratings8.3110 Ratings
Automation8.815 Ratings7.875 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft AzureOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(88 ratings)
8.4
(114 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(15 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(27 ratings)
7.6
(13 ratings)
Availability
6.8
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(27 ratings)
8.4
(17 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(9 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft AzureOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
In terms of cloud computing, Microsoft Azure is the only comprehensive result the company offers. Regardless of how big or small an organization is, it can make use of this system. As a cyber-security professional, this is your best option for data management. A business that wants to minimize capital expenditures can use Microsoft Azure. Many Microsoft services accept it. People with little or no knowledge of cloud computing may find it impossible. It isn’t the solution for companies that don’t want to risk having only one platform and infrastructure vendor.
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Oracle
It is a service that enables us to divide incoming network traffic among numerous resources, including virtual computers. By intelligently routing requests, it guarantees fault tolerance and high availability. Application performance is enhanced, and resource utilization is optimized by load balancing. SSL/TLS termination and public and private load balancing are supported. Using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console or APIs, load balancers are simple to set up and configure.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Azure simply provides end to end life cycle. Starting from the development to automated deployment, you will find [a] bunch of options. Custom hook-points allow [integration] on-premise resources as well.
  • Excellent documentation around all the services make it really easy for any novice. Overall support by [the] community and Azure Technical team is exceptional.
  • BOT Services, Computer Vision services, ML frameworks provide excellent results as compare to similar services provided by other giants in the same space.
  • Azure data services provide excellent support to ingest data from different sources, ETL, and consumption of data for BI purpose.
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Oracle
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a generous free tier, moreso than other hyperscalers, with an always-free tier that guarantees certain products are always free
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows you to size VMs with differing combinations of CPU and RAM, which is contrary to other hyperscalers that have specific pre-defined combinations only
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regularly provides free certification exam offers
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Cons
Microsoft
  • In our experience, Azure Kubernetes Survice was difficult to set up, which is why we used Kubernetes on top of VMs.
  • Azure REST API is a bit difficult to use, which made it difficult for us to automate our interactions with Azure.
  • Azure's Web UI does a good job of showing metrics on individual VMs, but it would be great if there was a way to show certain metrics from multiple VMs on one dashboard. For example, hard drive usage on our database VMs.
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Oracle
  • Navigating the UI takes lots of getting used to. It reminds me of older GCP (just to get used to where everything is).
  • Permission for different things always seemed to be more difficult than it really needed to be. Once you got them set up you were good but updating anything or creating new permissions for just about anything took longer than I thought it should.
  • Based on how the buttons were laid out, it was pretty easy to delete all of your DNS records, and backing them up was not as intuitive as I'd like with the UI, but it was easy to do using a script.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
Moving to Azure was and still is an organizational strategy and not simply changing vendors. Our product roadmap revolved around Azure as we are in the business of humanitarian relief and Azure and Microsoft play an important part in quickly and efficiently serving all of the world. Migration and investment in Azure should be considered as an overall strategy of an organization and communicated companywide.
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Oracle
Because it's used for organization many departments and data management, productivity improvement, efficiency increase, less errors and close immediately
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Usability
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure's overall usability has been better than expected. Often times vendors promise the world, only to leave you with a run-down town. Not the case with our experience. From an implementation perspective, all went perfect, and from the user-facing experience we have had no technical issues, just some learning curve issues that are more about "why" than "how"
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Oracle
The services & products in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure needs more improvement to beat other Cloud service providers. The price is good & Security processes are good. We are requiring to put more effort in supporting this Oracle Cloud Infrastructure than other Cloud service providers. Probably better ways are there but is not super easy to find or not super available
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
It has proven to be unreliable in our production environment and services become unavailable without proper notification to system administrators
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Oracle
highly available.
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Performance
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Oracle
In our project where we are handling Big data, Oracle Cloud helped us a lot by improving its performance and reducing the time taken. Its role-based security helped us to manage the privacy in our project. When there was load, its scalability feature helped us a lot by scaling it to a configured higher scale.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
Support is easy with all the knowledge base articles available for free on the web. Plus, if you have a preferred status you can leverage their concierge support to get rapid response. Sometimes they’ll bounce you around a lot to get you to the right person, but they are quite responsive (especially when you are paying for the service). Many of the older Microsoft skills are also transferable from old-school on-prem to Azure-based virtual interfaces.
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Oracle
Overall it is amazing, there is always room for improvement. We have weekly updates that tend to slow the program used more and more. We had to change some reports within Oracle because the others wouldn’t load. This is tied to our payroll and the delays are causing many time constraint issues and panic. We have to create a new report when one breaks. Otherwise awesome!
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In-Person Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Oracle
Effective training provided, much data productivity while doing training
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Online Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Oracle
detailed and easy to understand.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
As I have mentioned before the issue with my Oracle Mismatch Version issues that have put a delay on moving one of my platforms will justify my 7 rating.
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Oracle
Easier way to implement, vary much supportive way doing the implementation
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
As I continue to evaluate the "big three" cloud providers for our clients, I make the following distinctions, though this gap continues to close. AWS is more granular, and inherently powerful in the configuration options compared to [Microsoft] Azure. It is a "developer" platform for cloud. However, Azure PowerShell is helping close this gap. Google Cloud is the leading containerization platform, largely thanks to it building kubernetes from the ground up. Azure containerization is getting better at having the same storage/deployment options.
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Oracle
We did an proof of concept between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was the clear winner with us because of support of the product. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support staff was very knowledgeable and helpful getting us up and running with a bit of time investment. This pushed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure out ahead of the other two products.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Oracle
was not part of initial purchase team. Anyways, i think unit pricing and billing frequency is good compared to other Cloud service providers, when it comes to Cloud Capital expenditure & Operational expenditure. Would be more interested in exploring more options where customers can get more cost relaxations on trying out new cloud services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for example a new App or a feature
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Scalability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Oracle
useful product.
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Professional Services
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Oracle
Services & Infra wise is ok to use & host applications & services. Security wise also good for a Cloud service provider. It is a interesting area to explore & using it for day to day needs can be further improvised in future probably. Modern day Services like AI and Machine learning could be improved
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Brings down Capex to customers.
  • Some of the built-in security features of DDoS Basic protection that comes with VNET on Azure or even WAF on AGW brings huge advantages to customers.
  • Hybrid benefits for those who have software assurance can save even more costs by moving to Azure.
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Oracle
  • It improved the performance of all the applications we migrated by an average of ~90%.
  • OCI storage reduced the cost by an average of 40% on all the migrations we did. This includes backups as well.
  • Object Storage Archive is the most reliable and cheapest storage available for DB backups or application backups. This reduced our storage costs significantly compared to on-premises.
  • The minimum volume size for block volume is 50 GB. This forced us to use more storage on some applications but the impact of the cost increase is < 5%.
  • Lack of reduced redundancy storage options in object storage may have increased costs by > 8% for our use-case.
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