Microsoft Azure vs. Red Hat Runtimes

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Azure
Score 8.4 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
Red Hat Runtimes
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Red Hat Runtimes provides modern platforms to develop and run new and legacy applications—including Spring Boot, Reactive, JavaScript, Java EE, and MicroProfile—in a single ecosystem. It includes support for OpenJDK, in-memory datastore, and single sign-on completes the system. The products combine, enabling users to share resources and build more applications faster.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft AzureRed Hat Runtimes
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 AzureRed Hat Runtimes
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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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Microsoft AzureRed Hat Runtimes
Features
Microsoft AzureRed Hat Runtimes
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
8.4
28 Ratings
2% above category average
Red Hat Runtimes
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.227 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling8.626 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing8.725 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates8.226 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.327 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.425 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support8.927 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls8.627 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation8.225 Ratings00 Ratings
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Microsoft AzureRed Hat Runtimes
Small Businesses
DigitalOcean Droplets
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Score 9.4 out of 10
GraalVM
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
Oracle Java SE
Oracle Java SE
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
Oracle Java SE
Oracle Java SE
Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Microsoft AzureRed Hat Runtimes
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(97 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(17 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(37 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
6.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(28 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft AzureRed Hat Runtimes
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure is particularly well suited for enterprise environments with existing Microsoft investments, those that require robust compliance features, and organizations that need hybrid cloud capabilities that bridge on-premises and cloud infrastructure. In my opinion, Azure is less appropriate for cost-sensitive startups or small businesses without dedicated cloud expertise and scenarios requiring edge computing use cases with limited connectivity. Azure offers comprehensive solutions for most business needs but can feel like there is a higher learning curve than other cloud-based providers, depending on the product and use case.
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Red Hat
Hat Red A collection of goods, equipment, and parts used in the creation and upkeep of cloud-native apps is known as runtimes. It provides lightweight runtimes and frameworks for highly distributed cloud architectures, like microservices, similar to Quarkus. Frameworks and runtimes selection of languages, runtimes, and frameworks enables developers and architects to select the best tool for the job. Quarkus, Spring Boot, Vert. x, and Node.js are all supported. In-memory distributed caching is a distributed in-memory data management system built for scalability and quick access to huge amounts of data.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Microsoft Azure is highly scalable and flexible. You can quickly scale up or down additional resources and computing power.
  • You have no longer upfront investments for hardware. You only pay for the use of your computing power, storage space, or services.
  • The uptime that can be achieved and guaranteed is very important for our company. This includes the rapid maintenance for security updates that are mostly carried out by Microsoft.
  • The wide range of capabilities of services that are possible in Microsoft Azure. You can practically put or create anything in Microsoft Azure.
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Red Hat
  • Java micro services
  • Open JDK
  • Caching
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Cons
Microsoft
  • The cost of resources is difficult to determine, technical documentation is frequently out of date, and documentation and mapping capabilities are lacking.
  • The documentation needs to be improved, and some advanced configuration options require research and experimentation.
  • Microsoft's licensing scheme is too complex for the average user, and Azure SQL syntax is too different from traditional SQL.
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Red Hat
  • Migration Toolkit for Applications.
  • JBoss Web Server.
  • Identity management and access control.
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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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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Usability
Microsoft
As Microsoft Azure is [doing a] really good with PaaS. The need of a market is to have [a] combo of PaaS and IaaS. While AWS is making [an] exceptionally well blend of both of them, Azure needs to work more on DevOps and Automation stuff. Apart from that, I would recommend Azure as a great platform for cloud services as scale.
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
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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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Microsoft
We were running Windows Server and Active Directory, so [Microsoft] Azure was a seamless transition. We ran into a few, if any support issues, however, the availability of Microsoft Azure's support team was more than willing and able to guide us through the process. They even proposed solutions to issues we had not even thought of!
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
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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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
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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Red Hat
Native integration with Redhat Open Shift Container Platform and Cloud native micro services development especially Java micro services with quarkus which very good alternative framework on that area. Open source support and Open JDK support are extremely important for most of the java developers and communities. Good documentation and howto tutorials
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • For about 2 years we didn't have to do anything with our production VMs, the system ran without a hitch, which meant our engineers could focus on features rather than infrastructure.
  • DNS management was very easy in Azure, which made it easy to upgrade our cluster with zero downtime.
  • Azure Web UI was easy to work with and navigate, which meant our senior engineers and DevOps team could work with Azure without formal training.
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Red Hat
  • Total Economic Impact (TEI) study.
  • Red hat openShift.
  • Red hat services and support.
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