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    Azure Cloud Services

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAzure Cloud Services is a cloud platform that enables users to create infinitely-scalable cloud applications and APIs. It enables users to build the web and cloud applications needed while also simplifying the management of applications with cloud services, and while ensuring high availability. Users can: scale an environment automatically based on demand and reduce costs, automate operating system and application updates to increase security, and take advantage of integrated health monitoring…

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    Azure SQL Managed Instance

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAzure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that combines SQL Server database engine compatibility with a fully managed and evergreen platform as a service.N/A
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    Azure Cloud ServicesAzure SQL Managed Instance
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Would buy again
    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Azure Cloud ServicesAzure SQL Managed Instance
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure Cloud Services and Azure SQL Managed Instance
    Feature
    Azure Cloud Services
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Azure SQL Managed Instance
    8.4
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces8.93 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Scalability9.53 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Platform management overhead9.03 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.43 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Platform access control9.53 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration9.53 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Development environment creation9.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Development environment replication9.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.53 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Issue recovery8.53 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes9.53 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Cloud ServicesAzure SQL Managed Instance
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    6.0
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Cloud ServicesAzure SQL Managed Instance
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Azure Cloud services is a good choice for hosting web applications, based on requirements it can be simple websites or complex web services as well as it provides automating application development and deployment pipeline. It's less appropriate in case of cost-effective option for organizations with tight budget constraints. For very basic static websites, Microsoft Azure's offerings might be seen as overkill.
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    Microsoft
    Data management scenarios where there is a strong need to provide dynamic context for web based applications. Also can work as an infrastructure piece for ticketing systems without relying on another set of database software. The ease of importing data from Microsoft Excel &/or .csv files makes this really easy to use when importing data into the managed instance.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Effective service management and performance monitoring capability.
    • Reliable security management with excellent access controls.
    • Best orchestration and easy configuration management.
    • Easy on compatibility testing and change management.
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    Microsoft
    • executes the queries efficiently
    • has tools/dashboards to show where the query problems lie
    • alerting for problems
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Just on Cloud deployment for those new to the platform.
    • Multiple data reports creation.
    • Migrating a large amount of data.
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    Microsoft
    • hard to use without Microsoft knowledge
    • Intimidating CLI
    • Commands are not intuitive
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    Usability
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    it runs the workload very well without causing any issues to the business. there are many applications running on Azure SQL Managed Instances in my organization. Most users are happy with its performance. Is able to provide good dashboard for the visibility of the workload. Can add cpu without a downtime to deal with high workload.
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    Microsoft
    Azure to our enviironment where we have everything integrated stacks up far better than MySQL where we would have to reinvent and use everything to fit a MySQL environment including the data and the commands within that data. Furthermore, doesn't work really well on SQL Management Studio which makes it completely useless for what we are trying to do.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Scalability
    • Cost savings
    • Integration and migration challenges
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    Microsoft
    • it had a positive impact to my business and allowed me to be able to move my workload from on-premise to cloud.
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