We compared Azure Stack and AWS Outposts based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Azure Stack and AWS Outposts both offer seamless integration with their respective cloud environments, advanced security features, and competitive pricing options. However, Azure Stack users praise its excellent customer service and support, while AWS Outposts users emphasize its flexibility, scalability, and data control. Azure Stack users value its hybrid cloud integration and security, while AWS Outposts users appreciate its local cloud capabilities and efficient deployment process.
Features: Azure Stack is highly valued for its seamless integration with Azure cloud, consistent hybrid cloud environment, and advanced security. Meanwhile, AWS Outposts is praised for its seamless integration with existing AWS infrastructure, local cloud capabilities, and enhanced data control. Additionally, users appreciate AWS Outposts' flexibility and scalability, ease of management, and efficient deployment process.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Azure Stack is reasonable and users don't encounter unexpected expenses. The licensing process is straightforward. On the other hand, AWS Outposts is also considered to have reasonable setup costs and users find the setup process easy and simple., Azure Stack: Positive ROI reported by users, with benefits including improved scalability, flexibility, security, cost savings, integration with Azure services, ease of deployment, and optimized workflows. AWS Outposts: Positive ROI reported by users, with benefits including improved operational efficiency, cost savings, scalability, flexibility, and meeting specific business needs.
Room for Improvement: Azure Stack has room for improvement in terms of its user interface, documentation, performance and stability, available services and features, and collaboration and support options. On the other hand, user feedback suggests that AWS Outposts also requires enhancements for a better user experience.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Azure Stack and AWS Outposts show that the duration required for establishing a new tech solution can vary among users. However, some users of Azure Stack mentioned needing a week for both deployment and setup, while users of AWS Outposts reported spending three months on deployment and an additional week on setup., Azure Stack has been praised for its excellent and prompt customer service, providing assistance and resolving issues quickly. Users appreciate the knowledgeable and helpful support team. On the other hand, AWS Outposts also receives positive feedback for their prompt and effective customer support, with users appreciating the responsiveness and helpfulness of the support team.
The summary above is based on 32 interviews we conducted recently with Azure Stack and AWS Outposts users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"AWS Outposts brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and API to our on-premises data center or co-location facilities."
"The most valuable aspect is that it comes in a rack form factor which makes it incredibly easy to use and deploy various AWS services."
"Outposts allows you to isolate your private environment from the public cloud provider while enabling almost all the features that are available on public cloud services. That is the beauty of this service. It's an infrastructure that you can put in your data center and seamlessly connect to the public cloud."
"With AWS, we've had seamless integration and support for many of our applications."
"If you compare with the full bundle of these services, you can see the difference. This is enough for these locations in private data centers. Because the main reasons why the customers want to have it on their side are for the low latency and the security of their critical data."
"I think the keys to success for the solution is the easy-to-use user interface and the fact that the development team really likes the platform."
"The most valuable aspect is its ability to provide interfaces for events."
"The most valuable features are the control and flexibility that we have, where we can build our own solutions from scratch."
"It's more reliable, secure, and easy to deploy. It's much more stable as a platform."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of deployment for services such as SSH, creating a web site, and Azure billing services to measure the consumption of resources."
"In general, it provides the flexibility for configuration for bigger teams."
"This solution is highly scalable, with both direct and indirect users numbering over fifty thousand within my business."
"The setup is very straightforward and it's quite stable."
"The most valuable features are that it is a Hybrid, and we can easily integrate with the Microsoft Public Cloud."
"The solution's technical support is great since, in our company, we get answers to most of our questions, and most of our queries get resolved with the help of the documentation itself."
"It would be beneficial to have the option for capacity expansion."
"Outposts supports elastic coordinator services, but not elastic container services, which is the native service for containers in AWS. That is something missing in this product."
"The pricing model needs improvement because right now it's very expensive. All of these solutions are very expensive and it prevents other customers or owners of data centers from buying it."
"The platform needs to spend more time investing in strengthening its governance and information tools and consider the real needs of its customers."
"Depending on the installation process, we have found some bugs and issues with the solution when the same platform is not used."
"Also, it would be beneficial if AWS allowed for more granular and customizable pricing options."
"It would be great if it could support Glue services."
"It should be improved in terms of integrations. It could be integrated more with external tools."
"I believe the only room for improvement is that I am based in Nairobi, if it has even a local node for Azure, I believe most customers will prefer that to reduce latencies and everything else when using the Azure Stack."
"Azure Stack could be improved with more integration, governance tools, monitor tools, and lift and shift tools."
"I would like to see the AI side come to one hundred percent in the near future."
"The solution could use more training materials to help users understand how to use the product effectively. Online training would also be a beneficial addition to the product."
"Normally, in many countries, especially in the Middle East, there are government regulations for information technology itself. If government organizations want to host the cloud, they cannot take it from Microsoft directly; they must go through the local internet service providers, ISPs, or cloud solution providers locally."
"Having more options and customization would be an improvement."
"In some cases, we've seen that some financial software is not working correctly or compatible with Azure Stack. Many companies build this, but some third-party products may not be compatible with Azure Stack. So these are some areas of improvement."
AWS Outposts is ranked 4th in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 7 reviews while Azure Stack is ranked 1st in Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms with 61 reviews. AWS Outposts is rated 8.8, while Azure Stack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of AWS Outposts writes "Has the ability to provide interfaces for events and allows you to work both offline and online". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Stack writes "Effective tool for cloud and on-premise environments that offers seamless deployment". AWS Outposts is most compared with Google Anthos, VMware Cloud Foundation and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), whereas Azure Stack is most compared with VMware Cloud Foundation, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Google Anthos and VMware Software Defined Data Center. See our AWS Outposts vs. Azure Stack report.
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