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Add to SafariWhen comparing Microsoft Azure vs Joyent Triton, the Slant community recommends Microsoft Azure for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud platforms as a service providers?” Microsoft Azure is ranked 8th while Joyent Triton is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Microsoft Azure is:
Most, if not all, of the major cloud PaaS providers offer a Linux variant to host your applications. Windows Azure, being a Microsoft product obviously, supports Windows in addition to Linux.
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Pros
Pro Supports running Windows Server
Most, if not all, of the major cloud PaaS providers offer a Linux variant to host your applications. Windows Azure, being a Microsoft product obviously, supports Windows in addition to Linux.
Pro Linux Instances
The Azure platform has been supporting Linux VMs for a while now and has Linux distributions readily available in the catalogue.
Pro Free Tier
Microsoft Azure offers a Free Tier option that allows you to spawn a BST-1 instance that has 750 free hours.
Pro High Performance
By using Zones as a container technology software can run at native speeds without hardware emulation.
Pro Open Source
All software used to run the cloud is also opensource and can be deployed as a private cloud.
Pro Native Docker hosting
With LX-Zones docker containers can run securely on hardware.
Cons
Con Expensive
Even though in the context of Pay-as-you-go services, it's cost effective, but monthly pricing for these services are quite higher than competitors.
