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.
"Amazon for DevOps is fantastic. Amazon has fast clouds, and the process and the Dev is very good."
"It has helped reduce the cost by rationing the computing power and paying only on a per usage basis, instead of provisioning unneeded, idle, or unutilized computing power that is used only at 20% of its capacity or time."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"The most valuable features are load balancers, databases, and S3 buckets."
"They integrate well with various other solutions."
"The main reason why we use EC2 is because we are not dependent on maintaining the hardware inside our premises. Also, we have full control over the infrastructure, and we can modify it as per our own requirements."
"I especially like the flexibility and scalability of the solution."
"There is less work for the DBAs. Everything is handled in AWS itself."
"It has multiple features that can be used from the start."
"Azure is very flexible."
"The technical support has been good."
"In Azure, everything is pretty straightforward. Once you know it, the platform is very easy to use."
"Technical support has been extremely helpful."
"The product brings a lot of value to our business and customers."
"It's set up to handle any cloud requirement."
"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."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"We don't know whether to increase server capacity or alert notifications. We don't know which hard disc to purchase or what the next recommended CPU is. There should be an indicator. We would like to have more guidance."
"The difficulty of the implementation depends on the project. We have a lot of very complicated and complex project which make the implementation more difficult. However, a small project can be very simple to implement. In general, over 90% of the project tend to be complex implementations."
"The user interface (UI) needs improvement. Right now, it's not the best."
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage."
"It would be better if there was a way to see which components were still on. We have some situations where I forget that some components are turned on. We forget some components are on, and we only see that these components are on when we see the bill at the end of the month. It would also be better if AWS had specialized firewalls or integrations with leading products. For example, a specialized firewall with content filtering. We were looking for some firewall tools, and we saw that AWS doesn't have any specialized firewall tools in its services portfolio. So, we are looking for other tools like FortKnox, Forcepoint, and Check Point because we didn't find the solutions in AWS services."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"The solution is too expensive."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"Integration with other services could be much better."
"Any time you use a cloud service, there are increased security risks. If you want more security, you have to have private hosting."
"At times, the support is terrible."
"The tool should add an interface that is similar to AWS."
"They should create integrations with more platforms."
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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