We performed a comparison between Amazon Lightsail and Microsoft Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the usability and customer service."
"In Lightsail, they simplified to do it in as few clicks as possible. So, around ten clicks, I have a virtual machine deployed."
"We use Amazon Lightsail for hosting security components in-house and AI modules."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Microsoft offers free courses and an exam on their products. Many of my colleagues who use Microsoft Azure take advantage of those free courses to help them learn about the solution in depth."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"Azure's Data Lake services are decent. I like AKS, and API Management is relatively straightforward to use. The security and SIEM options Azure offers are good. All the infrastructure services are easy to use and set up."
"The focus on security is excellent. We really appreciate that about the solution."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"The automated connectors to some of our critical enterprise systems are an important feature. These are very large, critical, global HCM systems."
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"Microsoft Azure has been easy to use in my experience."
"To improve, I feel the disk management is too basic. I can't easily partition the disk for the operating system. I have to follow the main configuration that is already set up in the template. To partition the disk, I would need to deploy the operating system first and then make changes, but it's not an ideal method. I would recommend improving the disk management."
"Currently, there is limited support available while installing or configuring it, and resources are primarily available through community-contributed articles."
"When you need to add some custom rules to Amazon Lightsail, the auto scaling feature is a bit difficult."
"I don't see this solution as enterprise-ready, for bigger companies like banks."
"The authentication method only allows me to have up to 90 users, and there are 2,300 people in the company."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"The solution's email hosting pricing could be improved."
"More expensive than other solutions without justification."
"The scalability could improve."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"It could be cheaper."
"I would like to see more automation and AI with the cloud to help the clients understand more about their clients, their history data, and their predictive analytics. This would help them better manage their clients."
Amazon Lightsail is ranked 14th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in PaaS Clouds with 299 reviews. Amazon Lightsail is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon Lightsail writes "Provides preconfigured templates for common setups and allows for easy configuration of firewall settings directly from the console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Amazon Lightsail is most compared with Google Cloud, Heroku, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google App Engine and Pantheon, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Amazon Lightsail vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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