Microsoft Azure vs Rackspace Cloud Servers vs Scaleway

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Microsoft Azure

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Rackspace Cloud Servers

291
210
+ 1
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Scaleway

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+ 1
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Pros of Microsoft Azure
Pros of Rackspace Cloud Servers
Pros of Scaleway
  • 114
    Scales well and quite easy
  • 96
    Can use .Net or open source tools
  • 81
    Startup friendly
  • 73
    Startup plans via BizSpark
  • 62
    High performance
  • 38
    Wide choice of services
  • 32
    Low cost
  • 32
    Lots of integrations
  • 31
    Reliability
  • 19
    Twillio & Github are directly accessible
  • 13
    RESTful API
  • 10
    PaaS
  • 10
    Enterprise Grade
  • 10
    Startup support
  • 8
    DocumentDB
  • 7
    In person support
  • 6
    Free for students
  • 6
    Service Bus
  • 6
    Virtual Machines
  • 5
    Redis Cache
  • 5
    It rocks
  • 4
    Storage, Backup, and Recovery
  • 4
    Infrastructure Services
  • 4
    SQL Databases
  • 4
    CDN
  • 3
    Integration
  • 3
    Scheduler
  • 3
    Preview Portal
  • 3
    HDInsight
  • 3
    Built on Node.js
  • 3
    Big Data
  • 3
    BizSpark 60k Azure Benefit
  • 3
    IaaS
  • 2
    Backup
  • 2
    Open cloud
  • 2
    Web
  • 2
    SaaS
  • 2
    Big Compute
  • 2
    Mobile
  • 2
    Media
  • 2
    Dev-Test
  • 2
    Storage
  • 2
    StorSimple
  • 2
    Machine Learning
  • 2
    Stream Analytics
  • 2
    Data Factory
  • 2
    Event Hubs
  • 2
    Virtual Network
  • 2
    ExpressRoute
  • 2
    Traffic Manager
  • 2
    Media Services
  • 2
    BizTalk Services
  • 2
    Site Recovery
  • 2
    Active Directory
  • 2
    Multi-Factor Authentication
  • 2
    Visual Studio Online
  • 2
    Application Insights
  • 2
    Automation
  • 2
    Operational Insights
  • 2
    Key Vault
  • 2
    Infrastructure near your customers
  • 2
    Easy Deployment
  • 1
    Enterprise customer preferences
  • 1
    Documentation
  • 1
    Security
  • 1
    Best cloud platfrom
  • 1
    Easy and fast to start with
  • 1
    Remote Debugging
  • 42
    Quick and reliable cloud servers
  • 29
    Great customer support
  • 20
    SSDs
  • 10
    Uses OpenStack
  • 2
    Windows server 2012 possible
  • 2
    Easy integration with Github
  • 1
    Ubuntu
  • 1
    Ssh access
  • 30
    Scalable
  • 25
    Dedicated
  • 25
    Cost effective
  • 21
    Bare-metal
  • 14
    Open source
  • 12
    Arm architecture
  • 11
    Simple billing
  • 9
    Isolation
  • 8
    Security
  • 6
    Power
  • 5
    Cheap
  • 3
    Good at min money
  • 3
    Static IP
  • 3
    CentOS
  • 2
    Ubuntu
  • 2
    S3 compatible object storage
  • 2
    Terraform integration
  • 2
    OpenVPN
  • 2
    Additional SSD storage in demand
  • 1
    Local Networking
  • 1
    Imagehub
  • 1
    Reserve IP
  • 1
    Image Snapshots
  • 1
    Debian
  • 1
    Gentoo
  • 1
    Linux
  • 1
    Fedora
  • 1
    OpenSUSE
  • 1
    Arch Linux
  • 1
    Alpine Linux
  • 1
    Unmetered
  • 1
    SSH access
  • 1
    Simple UI
  • 1
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Cons of Microsoft Azure
Cons of Rackspace Cloud Servers
Cons of Scaleway
  • 7
    Confusing UI
  • 2
    Expensive plesk on Azure
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      What is Microsoft Azure?

      Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.

      What is Rackspace Cloud Servers?

      Cloud Servers is based on OpenStack, the open and scalable operating system for building public and private clouds. With the open cloud, you get reliable cloud hosting, without locking your data into one proprietary platform.

      What is Scaleway?

      European cloud computing company proposing a complete & simple public cloud ecosystem, bare-metal servers & private datacenter infrastructures.

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      What are some alternatives to Microsoft Azure, Rackspace Cloud Servers, and Scaleway?
      Google Cloud Platform
      It helps you build what's next with secure infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, data analytics and machine learning. It is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube.
      DigitalOcean
      We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.
      OneDrive
      Outlook.com is a free, personal email service from Microsoft. Keep your inbox clutter-free with powerful organizational tools, and collaborate easily with OneDrive and Office Online integration.
      Hadoop
      The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.
      Oracle
      Oracle Database is an RDBMS. An RDBMS that implements object-oriented features such as user-defined types, inheritance, and polymorphism is called an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). Oracle Database has extended the relational model to an object-relational model, making it possible to store complex business models in a relational database.
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