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Azure Resource Manager vs Google Cloud Identity comparison

 

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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
6th
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) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Resource Access Management category, the mindshare of Azure Resource Manager is 16.8%, down from 25.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud Identity is 9.8%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Resource Access Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Resource Manager16.8%
Google Cloud Identity9.8%
Other73.4%
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.
SK
Director at GNX Solutions
Cloud automation has improved development efficiency and supports secure MFA and SSO
The best features in Google Cloud Identity are their cloud, their VMs, and their cloud VMs, which are too good compared to OCI. Using Google Cloud Identity is beneficial in terms of finance as we are always doing automation and AI, and it is definitely the best. I use multi-factor authentication with Google Cloud Identity. Regarding how Google Cloud Identity helps to improve security, I can say that security is something everyone is using. I do not feel any different. After this, everything will be JWT token and all things we are using. I do not feel any difference in there. I have used the SSO feature, single sign-on, with Google Cloud Identity. In a few words, how Google Cloud Identity affected user management within my organization is that it is not done for my organization but for one of my clients only. I already have the ADs there, but still, it is the best. I think the reporting tools of Google Cloud Identity are good. I cannot comment on these kinds of things for this particular product.

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's Role-Based Access Control and ARM tagging features are excellent."
"The Azure Resource Manager is complete, where we can manage all the resources."
"ARM templates make parameterizing and using variables in your DevOps pipeline easy."
"Azure Resource Manager is extremely user-friendly and easy to deploy and understand."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy, as the documentation and information were very good."
"Azure Resource Manager's Role-Based Access Control and ARM tagging features are excellent; Azure Stack Hub is very compliant with CSA, Q-Cert, 27107, and 27018, which is fantastic when it comes to data sovereignty and private cloud offering."
"The solution is user friendly and it's easy to manage reserve incentives and to automate resources."
"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."
"Cloud Identity is scalable enough for our needs, and it's serving more than 3,000 users in our organization."
"It's easy to set up."
"The Cloud Identity is well advanced in terms of features, applications, and the components that it is offering."
"The solution is moderate to difficult to use. I found the approach was practical. Following the steps made it very easy to use."
"I think the first thing that is great is that it gives you a lot of features, like login, and then vaulted passwords and secure LDAP, and it becomes easier for the end customer to leverage all those features without going to a higher SKU of G Suite."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution has a good amount of features, integrates well with Azure products, is easy to set up, has good stability, and can scale."
"The tool provides a free service that you can integrate for laptop authentication. You also don’t need a separate Active Directory."
 

Cons

"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."
"They should focus more on AI features such as Copilot."
"They can maybe improve the interface."
"At a group level, if I apply a policy, it gets cascaded to all the resources underneath it, but it is not possible when it comes to tags. When I apply tags at a group level, it should go to the resource under it."
"Lacks a common line within the user interface for automating or scaling a reserve deployment."
"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."
"They have created multiple roles, but I would rather they simplify the roles they already have. The main goal is to work with efficient data. Their support could also be better."
"The latency has room for improvement."
"The interface could be improved by simplifying it further."
"In Google, if we want support they are very slow to respond."
"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."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"There is room for improvement in the configuration of their security policies. It seems quite basic."
"They are going ahead and adding a few more things to the Google Cloud premium edition. Their stock management and remote computer management can be improved."
"Mobile device management could be improved. Through Google Cloud Identity, we can manage Android applications and have control over iOS devices, but container functionality is missing."
"I want the tool to improve its support. It should also incorporate some functionalities. Currently, preparing presentations in Google is a pain point. The tool’s certain features like user provisioning are not intuitive as well. The product’s LDAP support is very poor. Clients do not trust the product due to the spam."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay $15,000 to $20,000 a month for the service and it is worth the cost."
"The solution is open-source."
"The solution is not expensive."
"We probably spend about $50,000 a year on licensing."
"When I worked on Cloud Identity, they offered a free or enterprise version. You can synchronize and create up to 100 user identities in the free version. After that, you have to purchase a business or enterprise license. In that model, you'll be charged based on the number of users."
"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."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"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."
"Licensing fees are on a yearly basis."
"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
Comms Service Provider
17%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
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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