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 stability is magnificent, it's spectacular."
"It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now."
"There are a lot of features that I really like including ease of deployment, ease of build and release, and also that it is heavily focused on a PaaS or SaaS model."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"Very good automation and very stable."
"This solution is a good option if you are looking for cloud-based storage. Using a cloud-based solution, it is not required to accommodate a full workload. You can start with a basic version and scale up as needed."
"The best thing is scalability."
"The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale."
"Reliable with ease of provisional services."
"The solution is very stable for Windows setups."
"Virtual machine services, in SaaS services, M365, and Data Lake are all popular with our clients."
"Technical support has been extremely helpful."
"Azure is a good networking solution from a WAN perspective."
"Azure Data Lake is useful. We are in the process of populating the data lake for our current project. Also, we are directly importing for Power BI to using PowerPlay."
"To me, the most valuable Azure features are AKS, Cloud SQL, security, and account management."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"Somehow Amazon associated their marketplace as a place to find images of various installs (preconfigured software) and was late in the game enabling and promoting SaaS-based solutions. Thus, the AWS marketplace has near zero awareness in the mind of the prospect to find solutions to various problems plaguing them."
"Price is an area with a shortcoming in the solution that has a scope for improvement"
"Instead of using some third-party solutions, Amazon should include them as part of its offering."
"Amazon support could be better."
"The networking models used in AWS, while functional, do have room for improvement. This is especially the fact, considering that they are built/presented from a systems perspective."
"In a future release, I would like to see more support for AI because it is the future."
"The security right now needs improvement. It's not bad, per se. It's just that there's always room for improvement in security."
"They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well."
"The solution could improve by having more security features around my data and the platform."
"The pricing could be better."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"Navigating the frequent changes in the interface has been a challenge, requiring effort to keep up with updates. Options or features that were once located in one window may unexpectedly move to another, making it hard to stay current with the changes."
"The design of the platform is not so easy to navigate. It's not very user-friendly."
"The response time and stability of Microsoft Azure need to be improved."
"If you compare it with AWS, it is not very friendly to use. I find the UI better to work with on AWS."
"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."
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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