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 best features are flexibility and cost."
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"AWS is known for its scalable cloud hosting and computing services. We use various features depending on our needs, including endpoint services, database instances, and EC2 instances."
"The storage on offer is excellent."
"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."
"Machine learning is a valuable feature."
"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's a very flexible and customizable service"
"The robust encryption services increase the confidence of tech users."
"The solution has given us more agility, scalability and opportunity to optimize the cost."
"It very quickly provisions servers, infrastructure, and apps on the fly and complies with security requirements and data safety."
"The tool's most valuable aspect is the account management side. This involves tasks such as assigning credentials to different individuals, managing user accounts, and implementing Privileged Access Management."
"The solution is similar to a plug-and-play system, it is easy to use."
"It is stable and scalable."
"We find Azure particularly beneficial when working with clients who are heavily invested in Microsoft solutions. It necessitates that we also leverage Azure for our solutions and services."
"It is a very easy-to-use platform, and it is very powerful in terms of data backup and Blob storage. It has very good features, especially if you are using Microsoft products, such as Windows, Microsoft SQL Server."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
"The price could be better."
"We would like to see if AWS includes any inbuilt automation. Also, we are very interested in AWS's AI/ML features, as well as IoT, AR, and VR."
"The price could be better. Support for data analytics could be better. I don't see much support for data analytics. They have a lot of support in Azure, but I don't see a lot of innovation on the data analytics side in AWS."
"Their support can be improved. In some cases, their support is not as proficient as it can be. They should be quicker at getting back."
"There's not much room for improvement but that being said, they can improve the overall process of the overall product features and backend."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"The local support is fair but it is sometimes limited, the service could be better."
"The security must be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see better security."
"The solution lacks fluidity and is not intuitive."
"The license price could be lower."
"It would be ideal if they could reduce costs a bit. Right now, we find the product to be expensive."
"The pricing could be better."
"I would prefer Microsoft Azure to increase the free trial, then developers can take advantage, and it could increase their sales."
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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