We compared Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, Azure is praised for its manageable setup, support, and documentation. It offers a wide range of features, an intuitive interface, and strong integration with other Microsoft solutions. However, it may be challenging for beginners and lacks user-friendliness in certain aspects. On the other hand, AWS provides quick deployment, extensive features, and strong integration capabilities. Users appreciate its scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. However, some users find AWS pricing to be high and suggest improvements in areas like user interface, security, and billing.
"It has several valuable features, but the load balancer, auto-scaling, and RDS database are the main ones. It is a complete cloud infrastructure solution."
"Great scalability."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"I like the flexibility of this solution."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"It has many choices of computer options, storage options, and even database options."
"AWS has a lot of flexibility, which is great."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"The user interface is very good for administrators."
"We are going to use Microsoft Azure to move some on-premise servers into the cloud so that our data can be held there."
"The most valuable features of Azure for me are its ease of management, recoverable virtual machines with backup support, excellent customer support, and user-friendly interface."
"The ability to quickly create and manage resources is critical to getting things done, Azure just makes getting things done a lot simpler."
"Azure is a good networking solution from a WAN perspective."
"Microsoft Azure provides good performance and support."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"The customization could be improved."
"The response time of technical support could be better."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"The price needs improvement."
"While AWS often is at the top of my list to recommend to people, I always have to tell them, "Hey, you got to be careful because if they don't like you, they can shut you down in a heartbeat. And they can kill an entire company by doing that.""
"The process by which our customers can switch from one subscription to another should be simplified."
"Could be more user friendly; initial setup is difficult to understand."
"The pricing needs to be a bit lower. It's an expensive solution right now."
"The solution could improve by providing a better user interface and more organized workflows."
"Ease of use could be improved."
"Specifically, I would like to see better Azure Data Analytics and monitoring RF."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"Integrate as a service. A lot of Microsoft software licensing options aren’t yet in Azure. Also, the ability to integrate with other technologies, such as other options on the market based on RISC Technologies."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 299 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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