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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Functions

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AAzure Functions enables users to execute event-driven serverless code functions with an end-to-end development experience.

    $18

    per month approximately

    IBM Cloud Code Engine

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AIBM 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
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    Azure FunctionsIBM Cloud Code Engine
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    Azure FunctionsIBM Cloud Code Engine
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Azure FunctionsIBM Cloud Code Engine
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    93%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Azure FunctionsIBM Cloud Code Engine
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Azure Functions and IBM Cloud Code Engine
    Feature
    Azure Functions
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    IBM Cloud Code Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Azure Functions and IBM Cloud Code Engine
    Feature
    Azure Functions
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    IBM Cloud Code Engine
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    Dashboards7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Function as a Service (FaaS)
    Comparison of Function as a Service (FaaS) features of Azure Functions and IBM Cloud Code Engine
    Feature
    Azure Functions
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    IBM Cloud Code Engine
    -
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    Programming Language Diversity9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Runtime API Authoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Function/Database Integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    DevOps Stack Integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Azure Functions and IBM Cloud Code Engine
    Feature
    Azure Functions
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Code Engine
    6.4
    15 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Scalability00 Ratings6.515 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings6.215 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure FunctionsIBM Cloud Code Engine
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Functions
    Score8 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    AWS Lambda
    Score8.6 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Lambda
    Score8.6 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure FunctionsIBM Cloud Code Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.3
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
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    6.2
    (12 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure FunctionsIBM Cloud Code Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    They're great to embed logic and code in a medium-small, cloud-native application, but they can become quite limiting for complex, enterprise applications.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    It would be a good solution for running serverless applications. Because infrastructure setup and maintenance expenses can be avoided, the investment will pay for itself. The time to value is short, allowing IT to respond to business demands quickly. It aided us in customizing security as well as operating a personal project using to autoscale up and down approach. Also, because there isn't much hassle, items can be pushed into production as soon as possible. Simply push a container, create an application, and you're ready to go. But, It is less suited when you have a static machine or need to keep data in some way and do not want to utilize network storage or a database.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • They natively integrate with many triggers from other Azure services, like Blob Storage or Event Grid, which is super handy when creating cloud-native applications on Azure (data wrangling pipelines, business process automation, data ingestion for IoT, ...)
    • They natively support many common languages and frameworks, which makes them easily approachable by teams with a diverse background
    • They are cheap solutions for low-usage or "seasonal" applications that exhibits a recurring usage/non-usage pattern (batch processing, montly reports, ...)
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • Managed Environment for partners and customers - shifting skills and speed to CSP
    • A variety of programming model support
    • Elastic scalability for cloud native development and speed
    • Flexible consumption model
    • Containerized workloads with horizontal scalability
    • Here is an example - live demo walk-thru delivered to partners and community:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBClYgpDFg
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • My biggest complaint is that they promote a development model that tightly couples the infrastructure with the app logic. This can be fine in many scenarios, but it can take some time to build the right abstractions if you want to decouple you application from this deployment model. This is true at least using .NET functions.
    • In some points, they "leak" their abstraction and - from what I understood - they're actually based on the App Service/Web App "WebJob SDK" infrastructure. This makes sense, since they also share some legacy behavior from their ancestor.
    • For larger projects, their mixing of logic, code and infrastructure can become difficult to manage. In these situations, good App Services or brand new Container Apps could be a better fit.
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    IBM
    • 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
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Consumers can purchase individual components as well as unlocking new bundles with special features and services including the extensive data management governance capabilities of the Automation range. Kubernetes containerizing for effective service implementation and an agile, flexible multi-cloud data program help both utilization expansion and deployment to be improved by this architecture.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    This is the most straightforward and easy-to-implement server less solution. App Service is great, but it's designed for websites, and it cannot scale automatically as easily as Azure Functions. Container Apps is a robust and scalable choice, but they need much more planning, development and general work to implement. Container Instances are the same as Container Apps, but they are extremely more limited in termos of capacity. Kubernetes Service si the classic pod container on Azure, but it requires highly skilled professional, and there are not many scenario where it should be used, especially in smaller teams.
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    IBM
    What impresses me most about IBM Cloud Code Engine is the container workload management capability and the Cloud services and dataflow monitoring functionalities. Data security and network security control via IBM Cloud Code Engine is quite excellent and very responsive data integration functions and the first deployment is not very technical.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • They allowed me to create solutions with low TCO for the customer, which loves the result and the low price, that helped me create solutions for more clients in less time.
    • You can save up to 100% of your compute bill, if you stay under a certain tenant conditions.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • [One] positive is that we have one tool to learn (and a simple one) for all kinds of deployment. We need less people to maintain the system.
    • We have saved a lot of time on trouble shooting. It's clear how it works. It's "just" kubernetes..
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