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Azure Resource Manager vs Google Cloud Identity comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Resource Manager
Ranking in Cloud Resource Access Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Cloud Identity
Ranking in Cloud Resource Access Management
5th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (11th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Resource Access Management category, the mindshare of Azure Resource Manager is 17.9%, down from 39.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud Identity is 8.1%, up from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Resource Access Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Resource Manager17.9%
Google Cloud Identity8.1%
Other74.0%
Cloud Resource Access Management
 

Featured Reviews

MohammedAbdulAleem - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Enterprise Architect at Integrated Telecom
Provides unified resource visibility and supports compliance requirements
Azure Resource Manager can be improved in several ways. It should support heterogeneous cloud integration. For example, if I have a cloud management portal from a private cloud provider such as Morpheus from HPE or other private cloud portals, and Azure Resource Manager could integrate with other clouds to give us unified resource utilization or management, that would be really good. Currently, it supports only Microsoft to Microsoft backend and does not support heterogeneous environments; it only supports homogeneous ones. Looking towards the future, I would like to see additional features or improvements in Azure Resource Manager because nowadays companies are going with a multi-cloud model. I am looking for unification of other clouds inside Azure Resource Manager.
Joel Prodigalidad - PeerSpot reviewer
Central and Enduser Computing Manager at Infopro Business Solutions, Inc.
User-friendly solution simplifies modern application integration and streamlines data investigation
We do not use these capabilities of Google Cloud Identity because of the limitations for Active Directory integration. Google Cloud Identity could have impacted our organization positively, but if it weren't for the Active Directory integration requirement, we could have been using the Google Identity solution. Google Cloud Identity can be improved by having better integration with Active Directory, but since Active Directory is also a Microsoft solution, we don't think it will happen; that's the only disadvantage of Google. The Active Directory integration that Entra has is a better implementation compared to Google, which we found lacking.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Azure Resource Manager is extremely user-friendly and easy to deploy and understand."
"The most valuable feature is the vast resources available online."
"The solution is user friendly and it's easy to manage reserve incentives and to automate resources."
"The features for managing the subscriptions and assigning a group of resources to a project team are the most valuable."
"ARM templates make parameterizing and using variables in your DevOps pipeline easy."
"My experience with Azure Resource Manager is fantastic; it provides me with a complete landscape of Azure Stack Hub, giving me complete visibility into compute, network, storage, security, and consumed IPs, all of which I can visualize."
"Azure Resource Manager's Role-Based Access Control and ARM tagging features are excellent."
"The Azure Resource Manager is complete, where we can manage all the resources."
"The main control page and the ability to manage all our users from a web-based portal are the most valuable aspects of the solution. That's particularly useful because we're a heterogeneous network."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most beneficial feature for enhancing security is context-aware access."
"I have not experienced any serious problem with stability."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"Although we have not looked at the whole product and explored it completely, we find that all the authentication features that we are using now are valuable."
"Using Google Cloud Identity is beneficial in terms of finance as we are always doing automation and AI, and it is definitely the best."
"The solution is primarily used for single control and single sign which helps with the security and authentication of multiple devices."
 

Cons

"Some of my customers don't speak English, and sometimes, they need to deal with English support, which is really complicated."
"I'm not at all happy with their support. Over the years, whenever we raised an issue, we never got clear and understandable support."
"They should focus more on AI features such as Copilot."
"Azure Resource Manager can be improved in several ways. It should support heterogeneous cloud integration."
"It would be helpful if they would create a common line within the user interface so that if you want to automate or scale a reserve deployment, it can be done simply."
"Compared to ARM templates, Terraform is often preferred because it is more versatile and user-friendly. With Terraform, you can create a single, generic script that works across multiple cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and even Oracle Cloud. This eliminates the need to write separate scripts for each platform."
"Lacks a common line within the user interface for automating or scaling a reserve deployment."
"Unlike Terraform, Azure Resource Manager is hard to maintain and modularize and has room for improvement."
"For Google Cloud Identity, there will be a recurring cost. There is no ROI."
"In the next release, I would like to see integration with different systems, mainly wireless SIEMS and other analytical systems that we want to introduce."
"The solution's storage capacity could be increased."
"The management of external users needs to be introduced in the tool as it is an area of concern in the tool presently."
"There is room for improvement in the configuration of their security policies. It seems quite basic."
"We cannot manage the attributes of SSPR."
"I would like to see more integration in future releases."
"One area where Cloud Identity has room for improvement is monitoring and alerts. If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is open-source."
"We pay $15,000 to $20,000 a month for the service and it is worth the cost."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"The solution is not expensive."
"Licensing fees are on a yearly basis."
"I rate the product price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"The licensing cost depends on the partners and the relationship between the company and the partners."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
"We probably spend about $50,000 a year on licensing."
"The fees are paid monthly and there are no additional costs other than the licensing fees."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Comms Service Provider
16%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Resource Manager?
About the pricing, it is expensive. Maintaining Azure Stack Hub is not easy because it is expensive, though it depends on customer to customer. If the customer is looking for a secure, compliant cl...
What needs improvement with Azure Resource Manager?
Azure Resource Manager can be improved in several ways. It should support heterogeneous cloud integration. For example, if I have a cloud management portal from a private cloud provider such as Mor...
What is your primary use case for Azure Resource Manager?
In dealing with something like Site Recovery or Azure Bastion or Azure AI Foundry, we are having a very minimal type of implementation that is only four nodes. Microsoft Azure Resource Manager is b...
How does Google Cloud Identity compare with Microsoft Intune?
Microsoft Intune offers not only an easy-to-deploy data protection and productivity management solution, but also access to both Microsoft’s user community as well as around-the-clock customer s...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud Identity?
It's crucial to monitor costs carefully, as there can be unexpected charges. I have been charged even when there was supposed to be free credit.
What needs improvement with Google Cloud Identity?
If you are asking about room for improvement with Google Cloud Identity, whatever is there already, cost is the only problem. If you are comparing with GCP, OCI, the cost will be a little bit highe...
 

Also Known As

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Cloud Identity, Cloud Identity Premium
 

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Sample Customers

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ExtraHop Networks, HealthChannels
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