When comparing Microsoft Azure vs F(x) Data Cloud, the Slant community recommends F(x) Data Cloud for most people. In the question“What are the best VPS providers?” F(x) Data Cloud is ranked 4th while Microsoft Azure is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose F(x) Data Cloud is:
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
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Pros
Pro BizSpark
Although it's a bit laborious to acquire, BizSpark gets startups a ton of free tools and usage.
Pro Option for hosting the database service on the cloud server.
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
Pro High uptime
All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime.
Pro Cost-friendly
F(x) Data Cloud provides public cloud server at a cheap price. The basic plan starts at $1.99/month.
Pro Great Support
Typically answers in minute.
Pro Provides high configurations
They provide 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses, high configurations are required.
Cons
Con Dashboard is weird to navigate
Looks pretty, but weird to navigate. The whole left to right thing is unintuitive. It's also very sluggish, or just doesn't load on a poor internet connection.
Con No GPU provided
GPU is not provided.