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 features with Amazon AWS that I have found most valuable are its flexibility and high availability. These are the most important and attractive points for me."
"This solution offers a very detailed dashboard that has some metrics, such as performance and budget."
"It's a very flexible and customizable service"
"The initial setup is easy. The deployment is fast."
"The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS."
"With the pay-as-you-go model, we don't have to predict future IT needs. We can just scale up as we want. That helps with a lot of agility in deploying stuff in our IT infrastructure."
"The solution can scale quite well."
"We use AWS for multiple purposes, such as developing APIs and API integration using API Gateway. We use API Gateway, Python Combinator, Lambda Glue, and ETL Process. We have used EMR for big data processing. If we need a tool for computing, we go with the Lamda DMS. There are many services available in AWS that meet our needs."
"We are going to use Microsoft Azure to move some on-premise servers into the cloud so that our data can be held there."
"Microsoft Azure is scalable."
"Infrastructure as a service is most valuable."
"I use a virtual machine for remote desktop and Microsoft Azure is user-friendly."
"One of the features I have found to be valuable is the scale set feature."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"The technical support has been excellent."
"Microsoft Azure is flexible and the performance is great."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"They currently have fewer regions in Asia, especially in India, China, and other places. They can maybe put more data centers in this region."
"Pricing is the one feature everyone wants AWS to improve."
"Amazon support could be better."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"Amazon AWS could be improved by lowering the general storage price."
"The solution is pretty mature."
"The cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Something that could be added to the solution is the use of deep learning, which is going to grow in the near future."
"The platform should be available at the same price worldwide."
"The price could be improved as well as the interface speed, and technical support."
"We have faced some challenges trying to deploy a new ESP application."
"Ideally, Microsoft Azure should be compatible with the applications that we are using in my environment."
"We use Microsoft Server 2019 and 2016. And I didn't like the 2019 client, so we had to downgrade back to 2016. The main issue there was its monitoring system. Our client needed an alternative, and if they were using more Windows products, they also needed to make that downgrade."
"The cost of the product is too high. It would be ideal if they could lower it a bit for their customers."
"The integration pipeline could be a bit more broad in terms of applications."
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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