When comparing Scalingo vs Microsoft Azure, the Slant community recommends Scalingo for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud platforms as a service providers?” Scalingo is ranked 5th while Microsoft Azure is ranked 8th.
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Pros
Pro Easy, fast, great support
Pro Review apps are a must to show user facing features to a customer
Pro Postdeploy hooks and manifest file make it easy to customize child applications
Pro Auto deploy from a GitHub repo works like a charm
Pro Works just as expected
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.
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.