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.
"The environment is a rich playground, and if you tried to do the same things on-premises that you do on AWS, it would be a lot more challenging to execute. You can open up a virtual machine on AWS, run some experiments, and be done with it. It's much easier than buying new servers, provisioning them, etc"
"Friendly console for implementation."
"It is enough for us in terms of features. We don't have too many transactions, and it is sufficient for our current needs."
"It is highly available and on-demand. So, you can scale up and scale down whenever required."
"User friendly solution."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"I think Amazon AWS is easy to use, and it's a good service. I also like Amazon EKS because it's good."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"Azure is very flexible and easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the interface."
"Azure has improved my organization because it is a new technology and so the customers who don't have enough knowledge about the cloud delegate the administration of their cloud infrastructure to us. We incorporate and add a new service to our product lineup about how to manage their Azure. It impacts our business because we're able to incorporate this new service."
"Azure Data Lake is useful. We are in the process of populating the data lake for our current project. Also, we are directly importing for Power BI to using PowerPlay."
"Azure is very user friendly. I was able to create some database servers really fast. The user interface is intuitive."
"The ability to create the actual resource on the private cloud is easy to manage with Microsoft Azure."
"Feature-wise, I like its stability. Also, it is easy to access the solution and its options."
"The product provides a host of security tools."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"We like everything about the solution except for the general price."
"The interface is relatively complex."
"The price needs improvement."
"You'll probably experience some sticker shock with AWS. You attempt to understand the cost, but you don't realize what you're paying until you get your first bill. I don't know if Amazon does that on purpose, but costs can get out of control quickly if you don't have someone who specializes in AWS cost management."
"The dashboard and interface need improvement."
"One problem is that the AWS public cloud doesn't have shared storage capabilities. The second thing is the cloud performance versus on-prem."
"Its price should be lower. The price for in-house usage should be different from production usage."
"The platform should be available at the same price worldwide."
"Use of the solution could be easier."
"Monitoring options should be more sophisticated, as there are dashboards on which a end user is able to pin a lot of charts and a number of web parts, but for example, I would love to have some option like in Operational Management Suite."
"The solution could improve the stability. However, this could be a configuration issue that we are not been trained."
"One area for enhancement could be in the realm of big data and unstructured data storage."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified. The licensing especially needs to be simplified."
"The price of the Azure license could be cheaper."
"The Azure Billing API could be so much better. It only provides billing metrics for a set duration."
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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