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 product is reliable and quite stable."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"Amazon AWS has a good Redshift database."
"It's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"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."
"One of the most valuable things about it, besides the stability, is that you can forget about infrastructure because you're just doing it on AWS. I remember the times before AWS and other cloud solutions existed, and it was a huge pain to get real hardware, put it inside, configure everything, report everything, and do a scale. It was very, very difficult compared to how it is now. Not even just AWS, but what all these cloud providers are doing, I would say, is a huge advancement in technology."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"The solution is similar to a plug-and-play system, it is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the interface."
"The product has been quite stable."
"We have not had any issues with the performance, or the stability."
"I think the most useful feature has been the remote desktop. It has been very helpful when customers have old applications that are not architected to run remotely."
"The technical support has been excellent."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"As a result of the competency, I believe that most people are now leaning toward Azure rather than AWS."
"It should be more secure and have more integrations."
"The pricing of AWS is very unclear. They make it quite confusing."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"I would like to receive some alerts when my consumption is getting out of the normal range."
"I generally don't like the user experience of Amazon. It's not the best."
"Scaling is an area that can be improved."
"While AWS often is at the top of my list to recommend to people, I always have to tell them, "Hey, you got to be careful because if they don't like you, they can shut you down in a heartbeat. And they can kill an entire company by doing that.""
"If the price were reduced then it would be an improvement."
"They can improve the number of requests. Maybe they can increase it from 5,000 requests to 10,000 requests a month. Sometimes when you try to connect, it is quite unresponsive. When you want to communicate using the API, you get an internal error."
"The quality of some components of Microsoft Azure is not that great. For example, Microsoft has not fixed issues in Microsoft Teams for many years. There are well-known issues that are submitted by customers two years ago and they still are not fixed."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"Microsoft Azure could improve by having the availability be 100%. Which is difficult, but not impossible."
"It would be advantageous if the dashboard had more clarity, in terms of the visibility that it provides."
"The pricing could be better."
"We have reported some bugs we encountered, and it would be good if those bugs were resolved more quickly."
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.
See our list of best Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) vendors and best PaaS Clouds vendors.
We monitor all Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.