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's easy to manage. We can use a wide range of technologies with AWS."
"The installation is quite straightforward."
"Amazon AWS is very user-friendly."
"They release new solutions almost every quarter and you don't get that kind of innovation from an enterprise company."
"Macie is great. It is a service that makes recommendations on a data layer for cybersecurity. It is a great service."
"A scalable and secure product"
"It has good reporting and documentation."
"The valuable features of Microsoft Azure are that it is cloud-based and has good storage. The storage is completely managed by Azure. We do not need to do any patching of security because it is handled by Azure which is a benefit. The solution is fully compatible with the Microsoft technology stack and is very scalable."
"Microsoft Azure has a large scope, it can do many things."
"The platform's user-friendliness eliminates the need for lengthy training periods, enabling swift navigation for new users."
"One feature I like in Microsoft Azure is its ability to host and run applications on virtual machines. It is a basic yet crucial capability for our team."
"Microsoft has a lot of partners in this area, and they have a lot of information available online, so it's easy to get support."
"My experience with technical support so far is very good."
"Azure allows us to bring applications to life quickly."
"I like the ExpressRoute because that makes it easy to configure connectivity to Azure-hosted services."
"There should be seminars and online training sessions available from AWS because a lot of people who are not using it would benefit from having the basic knowledge or basic hands-on experience."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"The initial setup is not easy at all."
"The price could be better."
"The solution could always be further improved on the commercial side of things. Amazon Web Services are not cheap. It would be ideal if it was less expensive for the customer."
"Their metadata management in AWS needs improvement."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"We like that they have the new capabilities, but sometimes they're deprecating capabilities faster than we can handle. If we had to improve it, we would want to stay on some of these older capabilities a bit longer."
"I don't understand why we spend so much time and money on Azure when Microsoft relies on third-party companies for support in the CSP model. I don't know how the support model works within Microsoft, but giving it to poor-performing third-party companies is not ideal."
"Security could be better. Once there was an attack, and we couldn't get to the cloud to see the reports for about five hours."
"It can be cheaper, which might simplify things a bit."
"I would like to see Internet content filtering included."
"We would like it to be cheaper. As a customer, we always want to pay less."
"A good strategy would be to include a feature for integrating with external ecosystems."
"The security of the solution could always be much better."
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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