Pivotal Cloud Foundry Reviews

Name: Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Brand: VMware
Rating: 3.8 (15 reviews)

3.8 out of 5

15 reviews
93% willing to recommend

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What is Pivotal Cloud Foundry?

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io

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Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the #8 ranked solution in PaaS Services. PeerSpot users give Pivotal Cloud Foundry an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most commonly compared to Microsoft Azure: Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs Microsoft Azure. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 85% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 38% of all views.

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Stephen Hack

Web App developer at FDIC

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is used as a cloud platform Pivotal Cloud Foundry has helped our organization by the way we've set it up, it's easy to sign in, bind services, push services, and create YAML files. The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line…

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Vasundhara Joshi

Senior Software Engineer at Wells Fargo

Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. However, if we go for Azure or some other cloud, we can get a lot of information. I believe there is not much information for Pivotal Cloud Foundry since it may be some license issue. If you go for Azure, the migration process is straightforward. Since we have been given 10 GB of space in the public cloud, we are utilizing it in our company. So, we are trying to deploy our application on the cloud, and for us, it is like a trial process for now. From our total application rate, I can say that only two to three percent is on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Currently, half of the code is in the shell script, which is causing issues. Also, most people in my organization have worked on Java-related code. For most of the applications, they are using the same, that is, shell script and AUTOsist, and so we haven't migrated yet. So that is the reason that we are planning to opt for a hybrid model so that we don't have to migrate completely to Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

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Gaurav Babbar

Principal Engineer at Natwest

Our organization has been analyzing OpenShift and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Regarding the comparison, there have been certain use cases, and I may not be the best person to tell you about them right now because my team is actually coming up with those use cases. So they were comparing Pivotal Cloud Foundry against what we are using and what is available in the market in OpenShift. We have considered Pivotal Cloud Foundry when moving our solutions to the cloud. We also follow the solution's design operational principles. As a private cloud, I recommend the solution to those planning to use it. We have been using it for quite a long time now, and I can say that it has no such stability-related issues. I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.

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Pivotal Cloud Foundry mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of Pivotal Cloud Foundry in the PaaS Clouds category stands at 10.2%, up from 8.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds

PeerResearch reports based on Pivotal Cloud Foundry reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	PaaS Clouds	May 19, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs Microsoft Azure	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs Amazon AWS	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs Red Hat OpenShift	May 19, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Microsoft Azure	4.2	19.8%	96%	313 interviews Add to research
Amazon AWS	4.2	12.7%	93%	255 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."

Room for Improvement

"It should offer more security features."
"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."
"Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry."

ROI

Users report that ROI from Pivotal Cloud Foundry varies, depending on the extent of its adoption. Many find it beneficial due to its scalability, ease of deployment, and reduced downtime. Some highlight its role in digital transformation and transition from traditional to modern architectures like microservices and DevOps engineering. These factors contribute to a significant return without needing extensive investment, particularly for those following Pivotal's transformation strategies.

Pricing

Enterprises find Pivotal Cloud Foundry's pricing varies based on deployment specifics, including virtual machines and cloud size. Monthly licensing fees are often $24, with additional costs influenced by cloud provider choices. While some perceive the pricing as competitive compared to similar solutions, others view it as higher yet affordable for enterprises. Opinions on the price range widely, being considered less costly than alternatives like Oracle but rated medium on affordability scales.

"We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market."
"The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."
"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."

Service and Support

Many users haven't interacted with Pivotal Cloud Foundry support due to their experience or internal resources. When engaged, support is generally responsive and available with a dedicated team. Some find technical support helpful, while others indicate room for improvement due to platform capabilities. VMware provides enterprise-level support for users utilizing the Tanzu suite, and some users rely on internal experts for guidance.

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Learn more about Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Pivotal Cloud Foundry was previously known as PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS).

Pivotal Cloud Foundry customers

Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank