Azure App Service vs. IBM Cloud Code Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure App Service
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
The 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
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload…N/A
Pricing
Azure App ServiceIBM Cloud Code Engine
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 ServiceIBM Cloud Code Engine
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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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Azure App ServiceIBM Cloud Code Engine
Features
Azure App ServiceIBM Cloud Code Engine
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure App Service
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
IBM Cloud Code Engine
6.4
Ratings
22% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability10.00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Platform management overhead4.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration10.00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Development environment creation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes5.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Azure App ServiceIBM Cloud Code Engine
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure App ServiceIBM Cloud Code Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(0 ratings)
6.4
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure App ServiceIBM Cloud Code Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure App Service is well suited in our case :
  • Our website is developed by our tech partner in a full Microsoft Azure cloud based environment.
  • We gave them specific access rights and the CI / CD integration helped a lot for updates and improvements deployment.
  • Most of the infra issues we had with our website weren't coming from App Service
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Looking for a reasonably priced and dependable cloud solution, I suggest IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to everyone. For businesses needing excellent uptime and performance free from the trouble of running actual servers, it's fantastic. However, it may not be the best choice if you need hands on support for server configurations.
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Pros
  • Super quick & easy to deploy new apps in visual studio
  • Easy scaling to help reduce costs during off-hours
  • The powerful Azure ecosystem offers a lot of functionality that ties in well with Azure App Service
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  • Server-less platform that is automatically managed
  • Pay per use - scale to zero results in an extremely cheap total cost of ownership.
  • There is no need for you to set the size, deploy, or scale container clusters yourself.
  • Auto scaling is always helpful and easy to use.
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Cons
  • Abstraction of computing resources like Heroku does with dynos.
  • Azure Portal overall is pretty bloated and that affects managing Azure App Service applications.
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  • the pricing structure is complicated, and the servers are expensive. I really think they should offer better pricing options and support for more languages
  • sometimes the servers go down, and they take too long to respond to support tickets
  • uploading documents is slow since I have to do it one by one, making the process much longer than it should be
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Likelihood to Renew
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Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
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Usability
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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The product Cloud features setting was not that tricky, and the functions are easy to manipulate and provide quality Cloud services. The data connectivity through IBM Cloud Code Engine is very simple and the transfer speed is very impressive. A/B Testing using IBM Cloud Code Engine is effective performed and data security is on top.
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Support Rating
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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Alternatives Considered
In terms of deploying your apps, Azure App Service provides a solid foundation. You may use either the Azure command-line interface or the Web Portal to administer these apps. As a whole, I find You may easily deploy your apps to Azure App Service to be a really difficult platform for novices to get their feet wet. First and foremost, I'd look at Heroku's user interface and the way it abstracts compute units.
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Having only some hands-on with the other services, The cloud engine is considerably simpler to operate, with a very clear interface and management. Each application can be easily configured and altered without needing to know anything about different subscription tiers or the system's inner workings. But in the case of Lambda, Depending on the situation, Code Engine will fetch your source code and generate the container image. Code Engine supports both Dockerfile and the Cloud-Native Build bundle, which is preferable. It is possible to create applications that send messages based on events.
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Return on Investment
  • Download time is reduced because of auto scaling feature.
  • Insight tool helps in finding issues quickly.
  • CI/CD has helped in automation.
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  • IBM maintains the same high degree of security that has been essential for its operations since the dawn of the computing market while streamlining data governance in a real cloud model as a dependable business partner for organizations all across the globe.
  • Apart from providing the instruments needed for efficient work the user friendly interface helps non-IT professionals to understand the system in a limited period of time.
  • The latest IBM Cloud Code Engine design is based on an innovative approach to buying and bundling of products.
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