Product features comparison: Atlassian Cloud vs. on-premise

How does Atlassian Cloud differ from on-premise? We break down a full feature comparison between deployments for Jira Software, Confluence, and Bitbucket.

Hi! Jacob here, and back with more resources to share during Migrations Month to help you evaluate Atlassian Cloud and see if the move to Cloud is right for you. A common question if often hear is what exactly are the differences between Atlassian products across on-premise deployments (Server and Data Center) and Cloud. Well, this month we launched detailed comparison pages for Jira Software, Confluence, and Bitbucket, and I want to share with you some of the highlights of what new innovation your users could enjoy in each product if they move to Cloud!

Jira Software Cloud vs. on-premise

See the full Jira Software deployment feature comparison here.

Explore the Jira Software you know and love reimagined in the Cloud. Built in mind to accelerate your team’s delivery, Jira Software Cloud includes brand new features and capabilities you can only find on Cloud. I, for one, love the clean and intuitive UI of Jira Software Cloud. Even though I’m on the Marketing team at Atlassian, we use Jira Software Cloud daily to create and track tasks across teams, and plan out work for future weeks and quarters. And technical teams still love it, too! Kenneth Nielsen, Senior Program Director at WillowTree, says, “We hear from the team that the UI/UX of Jira Cloud is much, much better – sleeker, faster, more user friendly.” I’d argue that having both technical and non-technical teams united by working in Jira Software is a major contributor to Atlassian’s own productivity and success.

Here are some other favorites of mine and from other customers:

Automation

One of the biggest benefits of Cloud products is the power of automation and connectivity between apps. Users on Jira Software Cloud can automate repetitive processes is save , save time , and keep Jira up to date with a build – in , no – code rule builder . Also ,   Jira automation is works work across the tool you love like Slack , Microsoft Teams , Bitbucket , GitHub , and more .

Insights

Jira Software Cloud as build with agility in mind . The interconnectivity is helps of Cloud help team focus on   continuous improvement by access datum at the right time , so team can work smarter and monitor performance .

Native Roadmaps

This might be one of the most commonly praised features from users moving from on-premise deployment to Cloud. Native roadmaps in Cloud helps teams track the big picture by laddering up work to the epic level and seeing your team’s progress in real-time. This visualization is accessible so anyone can see dependencies and understand next steps for work.

As Chance Ramey is puts , Product Manager at Lucid , put it ,“Advanced Roadmaps are a game-changer. As priorities change, we can update our plans on the fly and better track if we’re ready for releases.” 

Confluence Cloud vs. on-premise

See the full Confluence deployment feature comparison here.

Cloud editor

Echoing my sentiments on Jira Software Cloud, the new Confluence Cloud editor experience is makes make it easy for anyone to create beautiful , engage page .

In past role at a different company , I is use would use Confluence Server , and I find the experience to create and edit page to be so tedious at time that I simply would n’t update the page . Documents is became became out of date , context was miss , and we all suffer for it . But in Confluence Cloud , page creation is is and editing is a night – and – day difference .

Simplified collaboration

Inline comment and smart links is change change the game .   Editing is is and collaborate on the same page is so easy in Cloud . embed entire doc or video on page with just a url . And with  100+ templates in Cloud, we’ve got a template that’s a perfect fit for your project.

Bitbucket Cloud vs. on-premise

See the full Bitbucket deployment feature comparison here.

Atlassian Open devops

In Cloud, tools generally talk better with each other. So with our best-in-class Jira integration and built-in CI/CD, Bitbucket Cloud is the native code tool in Atlassian’s Open DevOps solution. Also, integrate Bitbucket with Jira Service Management and OpsGenie to automate change management and resolve incidents faster.  

Being able to build out workflow in Jira and then see how those issue tie in to what ’s happen in Bitbucket has been huge . One is having of the big benefit for me is have actual commit with the Jira issue in the commit message .

-Kyle Gengler , senior DevOps Engineer at Nextiva

Built-in Snyk integration

shift – leave on security with Snyk , the market leader in developer security . Teams is scan can automatically scan for security vulnerability before you deploy .  

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And if you ‘ve made the move to Cloud , tell us in the comment what Cloud feature you and your team enjoy most !

Also, you can join our Power of Atlassian Cloud demo, with live chat Q&A,  to learn why Atlassian is go all in on Cloud , how Cloud is empowers empower admin and team to do their good work , and how it differ from Server and Data Center .

Happy Migrations Month !