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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure App Service

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AThe Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby.

    $9.49

    per month

    Google Cloud Run

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud Run enables users to build and deploy scalable containerized apps written in any language (including Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, and Ruby) on a fully managed platform. Cloud Run can be paired with other container ecosystem tools, including Google's Cloud Build, Cloud Code, Artifact Registry, and Docker. And it features out-of-the-box integration with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, and Error Reporting to ensure the health of an application.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
    Editions & Modules
    Shared Environment for dev/test
    $9.49
    per month
    Basic Dedicated environment for dev/test
    $54.75
    per month
    Standard Run production workloads
    $73
    per month
    Premium Enhanced performance and scale
    $146
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFree and Shared (preview) plans are ideal for testing applications in a managed Azure environment. Basic, Standard and Premium plans are for production workloads and run on dedicated Virtual Machine instances. Each instance can support multiple applications and domains.—
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    Community Pulse
    Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure App Service and Google Cloud Run
    Feature
    Azure App Service
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Google Cloud Run
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead4.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes5.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Azure App Service and Google Cloud Run
    Feature
    Azure App Service
    -
    Ratings
    Google Cloud Run
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
    Cluster Management00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Storage Management00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
    Discovery Tools00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings8.16 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score6 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (8 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure App ServiceGoogle Cloud Run
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    You may easily deploy your apps to Azure App Service if they were written in Visual Studio IDE (typically.NET applications). With a few clicks of the mouse, you may already deploy your application to a remote server using the Visual Studio IDE. As a result of the portal's bulk and complexity, I propose Heroku for less-experienced developers.
    Incentivized
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    Google
    Microservices and RestFul API application as it is fast and reliant. Seamless integration with event triggers such as pubsub or event arc, so you can easily integrate that with usecases with file uploads, database changes, etc. Basically great with short-lived tasks, if however, you have long-running processses, Cloud Run might not be idle for this. For example if you have a long running data processing task, other solutions such as kubeflow pipelines or dataflow are more suited for this kind of tasks. Cloud Run is also stateless, so if you need memory, you will have to connect an external database.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • It has options to deploy using CI/CD.
    • It has great integration with Azure Devops
    • It has all the common runtimes, so we don't need to install softwares.
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    Google
    • Auto scaling is the best one
    • provide direct VPC connectivity and rigid network
    • Cloud SQL and Pub/Sub services
    • Handling latency issues
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • the learning curve can be tough (just like other azure services)
    • the UX/UI could be more intuitive (just like other azure services as well)
    • monitoring can be hard to understand
    • Microsoft's learning resources are hard to understand
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    Google
    • The UI can be made simpler. Currently the UI is bloated and it takes time to find out what you want
    • More integrations with container registry providers (ECR, dockerhub)
    • Better permissions UX. Currently GCP requires service accounts to be used with cloud products, the experience adding/removing permissions is difficult to navigate
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    We definitely need to renew it because we dont own our own infrastructure and storage and we are happy with Cloud Run features
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    I enjoy the fact that Azure App Service can be managed by the Azure portal and a fully graphical user interface, as well as from two different flavors of command-line interface, i.e. Azure CLI and Azure Powershell. By utilizing the Azure Cloud Shell, we are able to switch between Azure Bash (CLI) and Powershell at any given moment and manage the Azure App Service settings from devices of any form-factor (Web based management).
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    Google
    The UI/console is great... the documentation is top-notch for developers, but the CLI itself when you have to script around it is very complex and easy to forget some options... the downside of a generic command line client.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Not seen any major issues when we run applications its good
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Initially we felt slow but slowly it picked up and easy to manage
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    We had an issue where we deployed too large of a resource and didn't notice until the bill came through. They were very understanding and saw we weren't utilizing the resources so they issued a generous refund in about 4 hours. Very fast, friendly, and understanding support reps from my experience.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    I was involved in the initial implementation setup, Its easy with the given documentaiton we can do ourself. Not that critical
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure has many data center, their services are more reliable. Azure has way more features than both Linode and DigitalOcean. If someone wants a complete reliable service, he/she must go to Azure instead of Linode and DigitalOcean because even though azure charges more, it is worth the money you pay there.
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    Google
    AWS Lambda supports code zip package, enabling lower cold start time. Also, AWS Lambda pricing is much simpler, easier to understand.
    Other than that, the 2 products are very similar, including the Docker image support: the image must be built based on proprietary base image.
    Obviously, if your other services are running in GCP, then Google Cloud Run is your only choice for tight integration, & private networking.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Not part of purchase.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    It has good auto scale feature and reliable also
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    We have very good support when needed
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Reduced the deployment time of ASP .NET applications in the company.
    • Gave us an alternative to quickly deploy our applications without granting access to the version control system to a third platform.
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    Google
    • Built in support for auto scaling helps reduce operational overhead
    • Any application performance issues can be addressed quickly by allocating more resources while a proper fix can be planned and rolled out later
    • Using Google Cloud Run enables development of microservices which provides granular control for scaling critical services in the platform
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