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.
"As a service vendor, we have helped clients to achieve faster "go to market" on their products, and have provided highly flexible cost-effective system management solutions."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the S3."
"Some of the introduced one-year and three-year reservations helped us reduce costs early on. With time, we learned how to minimize our at REST capacity, allowing us to scale up and scale down in near seconds."
"The features that I have found most valuable are their compute and their Relational Database Service."
"The product is reliable and quite stable."
"It scales well and is flexible."
"Cloud Trail API log storage."
"I like many features, like the recently released useful analytics features. There are many from the data analytics or database side."
"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."
"There is the potential to scale."
"The solution is similar to a plug-and-play system, it is easy to use."
"The product has been very stable for us so far."
"Microsoft Azure has a lot of useful features. They have databases, application services, PaaS solutions, such as platform and infrastructure services. The virtual machines' functions and services are good."
"It's a great solution. It's so customizable. Every user can create dashboards to suit their needs. We can create and share them with our teammates easily, too."
"The data factory feature."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"I'm just bugged by the charges that I'm not really able to manage."
"The price could be better."
"In terms of additional features we'd like to see, the one thing that comes to mind is better integration with Oracle. We have a lot of Oracle databases, and there is no other option to either migrate to PaaS, stay on-prem, or use Oracle Private Cloud."
"IAM only gives you one chance to capture your key."
"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."
"Setup is somewhat complex."
"The IEM (Infrastructure Event Management) appears to be complicated, specifically cross-account resource permissions."
"The solution could offer better integration capabilities."
"Integration with other cloud environments can be tricky at times."
"There should be be better support for microservices and containers."
"The permissions and controls in the product are not easy to use."
"The solution's email hosting pricing could be improved."
"The support subscription models need improvement."
"The third-party data-sharing features must be improved."
"I would recommend some enhancement regarding integration features."
"Microsoft should have one package for all their solutions in one place to be found."
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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