We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure and Virtustream xStream based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."The Azure Portal has an advantage in terms of UX making buying resources or downgrading is really easier to understand. AWS has micro, smaller functionalities whereas Azure has more end-to-end focus which makes it easier saving you time and money."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"It's very scalable. We can scale up to 80-85% without issues."
"It is a flexible solution that is straightforward to use."
"We have found the scalability to be good."
"The solution provides multiple well integrated services which happen to work together seamlessly and provide flexibility and scalability for use cases all around the industry."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"Technical support, from what I understand, is quite helpful and we speak with them regularly."
"The solution has encryption which we did not have before."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I have found Microsoft Azure has many components to use and it's very difficult to understand every component."
"The scalability could improve."
"There are a number of services offered by AWS that are not yet available on Azure."
"The solution is too expensive."
"The dashboard of Microsoft Azure could be better."
"From a security perspective, it could be improved."
"I would like to see the console improved."
"Our account representative was inexperienced, they could improve on how they are managing accounts."
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Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews while Virtustream xStream is ranked 20th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4, while Virtustream xStream is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Virtustream xStream writes "Improves efficiencies, has encryption, and great mission-critical customer support". Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Virtustream xStream is most compared with Amazon AWS.
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